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Identify FOUR Values that are associated with education in the Caribbean. Explain how these values have shaped your choices and behaviours.  

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Identify FOUR Values that are associated with education in the Caribbean. Explain how these values have shaped your choices and behaviours. According to Emille Durkheim, "Education is the acquisition of knowledge and the learning of skills. It often helps to shape beliefs and moral values." Education is one of the very tools through which social change and transformation can be achieved. Education, and in particular the teaching of history provides a link between the student and society and also a sense of belonging. The teaching of history helps to shape an individual's belief's and values of what was taught and passed on through generations. For example, teaching a student about slavery and learning about how their ancestors revolted to claim their freedom can teach an individual to have a sense of pride in their history. Durkheim believed that school serves as a function which cannot be provided by the...

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