Chapter 4: An Inductive Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Educational Research in The English Speaking Caribbean: 1990–2016

This study presents a philosophical and empirically driven investigation of three decades of qualitative educational research produced by the Schools of Education (SOE) across the three campuses of the University of the West Indies from 1990–2016. Meta-integrative considerations are utilized to find connections between the different modalities of qualitative research to generate substantive frameworks of Caribbean educational practice. In framing this study within Boaventura des Sousa Santos’s (2012; 2002) sociology of absences and Walter Mignolo’s (2011) coloniality systems of knowledge frameworks, I aim to produce a “critical spatial analytic” (Robertson, 2006, p. 2) that introduces a more regional worldview of teaching, learning, and education anchored within a contemporary Caribbean epistemology (Santos, 2012).