Comparison of Dominica and Anguilla and their Recovery of Primary Education Following the 2017 Hurricane Season.

2017年加勒比地区的飓风季节给几个岛屿带来了巨大的破坏和死亡，导致它被称为有记录以来最严重的飓风季节之一。本研究旨在分析和探讨初等教育系统灾难恢复的背景、挑战和实践。它将比较安圭拉岛和多米尼加岛，以研究在当代社会政治气候中不断变化的发展议程，例如那些不断变化的欧盟政权。这项研究将与儿童基金会东加勒比办事处和安圭拉社会发展部合作进行；合作是这项研究的关键，它旨在将在该领域工作的几个非政府和政府机构聚集在一起。该研究将采用后殖民、女权主义的混合方法，以确保在强有力的伦理框架下学习的广度和深度。数据收集的主要形式将是半结构化访谈和对发展指标二级数据的定量统计分析。分析将检查和衡量以下方面的影响：国际发展机制、当地政治反应、学校独立应对的能力以及它们这样做的机制。总体而言，本研究旨在促进灾害恢复中的内聚学习，以帮助未来的应对措施，鉴于气候变化给该地区带来的风险增加，这一点尤为重要。

The 2017 Hurricane season within the Caribbean broughtimmense devastation and death to several islands, resulting in itbeing labelled as one of the worst hurricane seasons on record.This research aims to analyse and interrogate the context,challenges, and practices of the disaster recovery of the primaryeducation system. It will compare the islands of Anguilla andDominica to examine the changing development agendas in thecontemporary socio-political climate, such as those of the changingEU regimes. This research will be carried out in collaboration withthe UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean and Anguilla'sMinistry of Social Development; collaboration is key to thisresearch and it aims to bring together several non-governmentaland governmental agencies working in the area. The research willemploy a postcolonial, feminist mixed-methods approach to ensureboth breadth and depth of learning under a strong ethicalframework. The main forms of data collection will be semistructuredinterviews and quantitative statistical analysis ofsecondary data on development indicators. Analysis will examineand measure the impact of: international development regimes,local political responses, the schools' capability to respondindependently, and their mechanisms to do so. Overall, thisresearch aims to promote cohesive learning within disasterrecovery to aid future responses, which is particularly importantgiven the increased risks posed for the region by climate change.