Slicing the onion: reflections and projections on language education policy in the Caribbean

Abstract The history of plantation slavery and European colonization in the Caribbean has left its wake a rich complex linguistic landscape, colonial education structure, set contradictory (creole/colonial) identities language attitudes that make it fertile ground for critical examination policy development region. Using Jamaica, former British colony as an illustrative case, this article takes look at historical current framing multilayered “onion” is – uniquely creole/colonial region with conflicting ideologies. I examine goals, actors, processes, challenges possibilities LEP implementation (Nero, Shondel. 2018. Challenges Creole-speaking contexts. In Jodi Crandall & Kathleen Bailey (eds.), Global perspectives on policies , 205–218. New York: Routledge TIRF International Research Foundation), also ahead, recommending ways we might craft viable 21st century goals other colonies around world, given their legacy transnational present future.