The Faculty of Humanities and Education
In 1994 Dr. Jerome De Lisle was the first candidate to be awarded his doctorate at the School of Education (then the Faculty of Education). His thesis was a multivariate mixed methods study of the work environment of secondary school teachers in Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr De Lisle has worked continuously with the Division of Educational Research and Evaluation (DERE) in the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Education since 2003 on the methodology and reporting of national learning assessments. He is responsible for installing the current system of performance standards for National Tests and for the 2010 CAP evaluation. He has also worked with the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT) as a feature speaker in conferences and is a regular evaluator in registration and accreditation processes.
He is a member of several learned societies, including the American Educational Association (AERA), the National Council Measurement in Education (NCME), the International Association for Computerized testing (IACAT), the International Congress of School Effectiveness and School Improvement (ICSEI), the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIA), and the American Evaluation Association (AEA)
His current research interests are in high stakes testing, formative assessment, standard setting and whole system change. At present he teaches EDME6121, Evaluation of Educational Institutions and EDME6006, Assessment and Evaluation and administers one of the two groups in EDRS 6203: Graduate Research Seminars . He will be teaching two new courses in the M.Ed Leadership on action research and school and system improvement.
Dr. Beverly-Anne Carter has been part of The UWI, St. Augustine family since 1992 and has served as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in French Language and Director of the Centre for Language Learning. She has obtained an Associate Degree in Arts (Modern French Literature) (1977), a B.A. in Modern French Literature (1978), a BA in the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language and an M.A. (Honours) in Modern French Literature all from Univerisité de Besançon, France and a Ph.D (Linguistics) from The University of the West Indies. Her research areas include language in higher education, technlogy-enhanced learning environments, and foreign language programme development (focusing on English and Chinese as foreign languages). Dr Carter is the author of “Teacher/Student Responsibility in Foregn Language Learning” (2006) and the co-author of book chapters entitled “Trinidadian patients and their Cuban doctors: More than meets the eye and ear” and “This is not English. Setswana speakers at a Caribbean Medical School” in The Patient: Global Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Researching Content and Language Integration in Higher Education respectfully.
Dr. Sherry-Ann Singh is a lecturer of Indian History and Indian Diaspora Studies in the Department of History, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Singh obtained her Ph.D. in 2005 (with High Commendation) in History. She specializes in the social, religious, and cultural transformation among Indians in Trinidad and in the Caribbean; in Hinduism and the Ramayana tradition in the Indian Diaspora; and on the Indian indenture system. She has held fellowships at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in Bangalore, India and at the University of Warwick, U.K. She has earned the Young Caribbean Scholar of the Year Award from the George Bell Institute of Queen’s College, Birmingham (UK), 2004. In addition many published articles, her monograph The Ramayana Tradition and Socio-Religious Change in Trinidad, 1917-1990 was published in 2012 by Ian Randle Publishers. She is currently Head of the Department of History and Coordinator of the M.A. programme in History.
Paula Morgan is a Professor of West Indian Literature and Culture and Head of the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies. She is a former Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies UWI St Augustine and Faculty of Humanities and Education Deputy Dean, Distance and Outreach.
Dr Morgan’s primary focus of research, teaching and publication include gender, violence and trauma; crime and its representation in the Anglophone Caribbean; and pedagogical approaches to Caribbean literature and culture. Professor Morgan has published numerous essays and over ten single authored, co-authored or co-edited journal collections, instructional texts and scholarly books including: The Terror and the Time: Banal Violence and Trauma in Caribbean Discourse (The UWI Press).
Paula Morgan is the holder of awards for teaching, publication and graduate supervision.
Rev. Dr. Arnold Francis, Dean of Studies,Theology
Rev. Dr. Arnold Francis is the Principal/Dean of Studies of the Seminary of St. John Vianney & the Uganda Martyrs Theological Institute. He was ordained a Priest on August 16th, 1981. He holds a PhD in Biblical Studies (1994) from the Catholic University of America, an S.T.L. (Biblical Theology) (1981) from Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana Rome, (Summa Cum Laude) and a Bachelors of Arts (Theology) (1979) from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. He was awarded the Certificate of Accomplishment for Good Leaders, Good shepherds from the Catholic Leadership Institute May 2011. His pastoral duties spans the period 1982 to present and include Spiritual Director of the Brothers of the Transfigured Christ, Association of Catholic Teachers in Trinidad & Tobago, Parish Priest for Antigua, Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago. For the period 1999 – 2003 he was the President of the Association of the Diocesan Clergy of Archdiocese of Castries. His many accomplishments include publications, articles and DVDs on a wide cross section of topics about Human Community, the Bible, the Secularization process & the Christian Family, Demon Possession in the Bible et al
Robert Yao Ramesar is the Coordinator of the Film Programme here at the Faculty of Humanities and Education. One of the most accomplished and prolific directors of his generation, the Ghana- born Caribbean filmmaker was honoured as the Caribbean’s first Laureate in Arts and Letters, at the inaugural ANSCAFE Awards in 2006. That year his award-winning SISTA GOD became the first Trinidad and Tobago feature film in official selection at a major festival, when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
He has directed over 140 films, screening throughout Africa; Asia; North, South and Central America; Europe and the Caribbean, taking regional cinema to the world under the rubric of an original aesthetic deemed “Caribbeing”
Ramesar's collaborations include Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, directing Walcott’s “The Saddhu of Couva” and “The Coral”, as well as producing documentaries on Nelson Mandela and Kwame Toure (Stokley Carmichael), as well as others during their visits to Trinidad.
2009 saw the publication of Phenomenology’s Material Presence, a book on Ramesar’s works by Dr. Gabrielle Hezekiah.
The Faculty of Humanities & Education
UWI St. Augustine
Tel: (868) 662-2002 ext. 82288
Email: Dean.FHE@sta.uwi.edu
