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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an independent Caribbean state comprised of 32 islands, nine of which are inhabited, with a total population of 109,000. The capital city of Kingstown, home to 27,000 people, is situated in the south-west part of the main island, Saint Vincent. The official...

Situated in the eastern Caribbean Sea, Saint Lucia is home to 185,000 people. Almost 40 per cent of them (68,000) live in the capital, Castries City. The island country’s official language is English, but French patois, which merges elements of French with languages such as Yoruba and Igbo...

Volume 63, Issue 2, pp 153–167

Author: Sheila C. Gordon (Interfaith CommunityNew York), Benjamin Arenstein (Interfaith CommunityNew...

Volume 63, Issue 2, pp 235–256

Author: Lars Norqvist (Department of Applied Educational ScienceUmea UniversityUmeå), Eva Leffler (...

Volume 63, Issue 2, pp 169–195

Author: Mohammed Abu-Nimer (The International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID), Vienna; School of International Service, American University, Washington),...

Volume 63, Issue 2, pp 197–212

Author: Mehmet FiratEmail (Department of Distance Education, Open Education FacultyAnadolu UniversityEskisehir)

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In the past, distance education...

Volume 63, Issue 2, pp 257–280

Author: Jeroen Lavrijsen (HIVA – KU Leuven), Ides Nicaise (HIVA – KU Leuven)

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Barbados is the most easterly island in the Caribbean Sea. Most of its 284,000 citizens speak an English-based Creole dialect called Bajan, although English is the official language. The largest city on the island is the country’s capital, Bridgetown, which is home to 110,000 people....

The islands of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique comprise the south-eastern Caribbean state of Grenada. Grenada’s official language is English, though a variety of dialects are spoken by its 107,000 citizens. Among the most widely used is (French) Patois, which combines English...