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HISTORY
The training of technical teachers
began at CAST as a pilot project in 1971 when six students were
accepted to pursue a three-year Technical Diploma Course in
Mechanical Technology.
In that same year, the Government
of Jamaica submitted an application to C.I.D.A. for a loan to
provide training facilities for Technical Teachers.
The outcome of this request was a
memorandum of understanding between the government of Jamaica and
the government of Canada. This memorandum made provision for a
contribution by the Canadian government of some C$1,280,000 in grant
aid and loan funds for the initiation of a Technical Teacher
Education Programme at CAST.
In 1982, the Technical Education
Department as it was then known, initiated its first Degree
Programme- the Bachelor of Education in Business Education. Similar
B.Ed. programmes were started in Home Economics in 1985 and in
Industrial Technology in 1987.
In 1998 the Technical Education
Department was renamed the Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies
which comprises the School of Technical and Vocational Education and
the Department of Liberal Studies.
GOALS
The Faculty of Education and
Liberal Studies is comprised of two units: the School of Technical
and Vocational Education and the Department of Liberal Studies. The
goals of the Faculty are:
- To prepare competent teachers of
technical subjects in nine areas of specialisation.
- To provide in-service courses
designed to improve the effectiveness of technical education
teachers.
- To equip student-teachers with
leadership, administration and supervisory skills
- To ensure the development of
sound curricula and innovative delivery of instruction
- To foster and encourage applied
research as an integral part of lecturers' responsibility and
student activity.
- To develop student-teachers'
sense of responsibility to the community
- To provide Communication Skills
and General Studies courses throughout the University.
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