Sustainability and Social Justice
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The globalisation’s ‘knowledge economy’ has created a new set of human capital requirements. The guiding policy and planning document, The CARICOM Human Resource Development 2030 Strategy: Unlocking Caribbean Human Potential document, ‘serves as a roadmap for the CARICOM Caribbean’s responses to these human capital demands. I conduct a critical analysis of this document’s policy discourses to ascertain their core values and strategies, as well as their implications for the education and development of the CARICOM Caribbean. I find that the emergent discourses and ideas–neoliberal education reform and state-led social planning–provide a cautionary tale of the potential impact of educational change driven by the neoliberal imaginary of globalisation. A chief concern is that as the discourse of education as a tool for social planning is utilised according to a neoliberal logic of the education system operational reform discourse, the deep social development problems already characterising Caribbean education and other development challenges, may very well be exacerbated.
Publication Title
Globalisation, Societies and Education
Publication Date
12-8-2021
ISSN
1476-7724
DOI
10.1080/14767724.2021.2013166
Keywords
CARICOM Caribbean human capital development, critical policy analysis, discourse analysis, education reform, neoliberal globalisation and education, social planning
Repository Citation
Brissett, Nigel O.M., "CARICOM Caribbean’s HRD 2030 Strategy: Inscribing the Neoliberal Imaginary Through Social Planning?" (2021). Sustainability and Social Justice. 49.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/49
Copyright
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Globalisation, Societies and Education on 12/8/2021, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.2013166.