The political economy of ‘open regionalism’ and education in small (and micro) states: the construction of the Caribbean Educational Policy Space in CARICOM

Regional cooperation in higher education

“…Looking at the Caribbean region, the drive towards the 'Caribbean Educational Policy Space' (CEPS) (Jules, 2013) is situated in the open regionalism that CARICOM member states adopted in 2006 as envisioned in the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). The CEPS is envisaged as a space to facilitate the movement of capital, labour, and service within CSME (Jules, 2015a(Jules, , 2015b(Jules, , 2017. Meanwhile, Forest (n.d.,p.…”

Handbook of Regional Cooperation and Integration

“…Looking at the Caribbean region, the drive towards the 'Caribbean Educational Policy Space' (CEPS) (Jules, 2013) is situated in the open regionalism that CARICOM member states adopted in 2006 as envisioned in the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). The CEPS is envisaged as a space to facilitate the movement of capital, labour, and service within CSME (Jules, 2015a(Jules, , 2015b(Jules, , 2017.…”

Re/diss/assembling “Educational Imaginaries” through Regionalism – The Construction of the Caribbean Education Policy Space

“…Next, it examines educational imaginaries and their ascension in the Caribbean. Methodologically we use summative 6 content analysis to demonstrate how the four modes of selectivity create and perpetuate the "Caribbean Educational Policy Space (CEPS)" (Jules, 2015a). The paper concludes by examining how these modes of selectivity may effect changes to that space in the future.…”