Cecille DePass

‘Freedom Songs’ in Selected Caribbean-Canadian Contexts: Retrospective Fragments

This article explores important variations in concepts of freedom and resistance for people in the English speaking Caribbean, who for the most part, still live in oppressive economic and social conditions. The article has a threefold purpose: Initially, it highlights the meaning of freedom in terms of the historical context of legally sanctioned enslavement of African people in the Caribbean which existed for several hundred years. Secondly, it identifies freedom in terms of Caribbean authors who deliberately publish in Creole as acts of resistance to empire’s dominance. Thirdly, the paper summarizes a few personal experiences of schooling and university teaching in terms of hooks’ (1994) concept of education ‘as the practice of freedom’ and a few classic concepts from Freire (1970, 1982).

‘Independence is we nature…’: Growing up in a postcolonial Caribbean country

By incorporating oral and narrative history from personal and family stories, this article draws on Caribbean idioms and cultural characteristics as a form of ‘decolonizing one’s mind’ (Pieterse and Parekh, 1995; Lamming, 1960; Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 1986). Divided into three related parts, Part One portrays the Eurofeminist adage that the personal is political. Family history and memory become the focus for retelling stories of the severe restrictions for education and mobility in a former Crown colony. Part Two highlights a few personal non-formal learning activities which acted as sites for learning compliance and resistance in playful and nonthreatening ways. Part Three moves to the world of the large working class population, a historical site of resistance to oppression. By concentrating on women’s lives, it reveals some of the social tensions between women and men and, as important, illustrates the efforts of women through a collective to achieve self-sufficiency for themselves and their families.

CPI Welcomes Kathleen C. Sitter’s Special Issue: Artistic Pedagogies in Academia

Inspired by Heron’s research on different ways of knowing, as importantly, as a result of her considerable knowledge and expertise in the field, Kathleen Sitter has designed, developed, indeed masterminded and crafted, a very special CPI issue. Textual discourses, in this issue, are often complemented by artworks. Yet, at other times, works from the visual arts occupy centre stage. Within Sitter’s issue, the range of ways of depicting not only, how one knows that one knows, as well as, the who- what- where and whys, become lively players in processes of knowledge-making. For educational purposes, the rich combination of types of texts and artworks demonstrate interactive pedagogies for teaching and learning for social justice.

CPI Welcomes Jennifer Eiserman's Special Issue

In Us-Them-Us , several artists affiliated with the University of Calgary, and an invited poet, adopt perspectives, usually associated with that of being agents provocateur. Key themes, issues, images, symbols, and slogans associated with postcoloniality and postmodernity are well illustrated in particularly, vivid ways. Thank you Jennifer Eiserman , for working closely with the contributors, in order to, produce a special issue which highlights well established traditions of the arts and humanities. This CPI Special Issue holds up for scrutiny, central aspects of our troubling contemporary and historical life worlds.

My Spirit and Heart Soar

Call for submissions for CPI special issue: My spirit and heart soar - Indigenous people contest the formal and lived curricula.

The Politics of Contemporary Education

Call for Submissions: Special Issue: The Politics of Contemporary Education. Through scholarly and creative work, this proposed CPI special issue explores central aspects and impacts of the contentious politics of contemporary education.

Call for Submissions: Special Issue, Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (CPI) - Caribbean Pelau

Building Traditions & Creating Meaningful Changes through Culture and Education This Special Issue of Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry , scheduled for Fall 2019, concentrates on Caribbean voices, which throws into sharp focus tertiary/post-secondary educational institutions in the region, and highlights their global impacts and diasporic influences. Potential authors, poets, visual artists, choreographers, composers who are interested in contributing to this CPI Special Issue , please submit a proposal in either a single Word or PDF file to either of the Co-Editors listed below, by March, 31, 2018 .

CPI Welcomes Cyril Dabydeen’s Anthology: “Myth-Making: From Margin to Centre”

CPI’s, summer and fall issues for 2016, continue to hold tremendous promise for the Journal’s well -being. The special, summer issue, by Cyril Dabydeen, well known author and poet, explicates the journal’s movement into the domain of postcolonial poetry. The decision was deliberate. It indicates CPI’s desire to expand its repertoire of publications, implied over the years by the presence of a few poems by Townai Duchscher and more recently, Tania Guerrero. Once again, ‘the Empire [continues to] write back’ (Ashcroft et al, 1989).