Caribbean Scholarship for the Age of AI
Research, frameworks and provocations examining how artificial intelligence changes what it means to learn, teach, create, know and remain culturally grounded in the Caribbean.
Ideas, frameworks and research programmes
The library distinguishes established outputs from emerging concepts. Pages labelled Research Overview or Research Theme are interpretive summaries, not claims of peer-reviewed publication.
Knowledge Half-Life Theory™
A framework for understanding how quickly knowledge loses practical usefulness and why education must build adaptive capability.
Adaptive Capability Theory™
An emerging framework for the capacity to update, transfer, reconfigure and apply knowledge under changing conditions.
Human-Centred Guided Agency
A design principle for using AI to scaffold judgment, reflection and independent capability rather than replace cognition.
AI Dialogues™
Classic theories, new questions: a series re-examining influential educational and psychological ideas under contemporary AI conditions.
Caribbean AI Identity
Research and public scholarship on how the Caribbean can participate in AI as a producer of ideas, frameworks, tools and culturally grounded practice.
COMLITERICKS™
Comics, cartoons and animation as serious sites of literacy, narrative, culture, language and imaginative development.
The Marcus Model™ of Narrative
A proposed narrative model for stories that extend beyond a single climax through sustained intensity, cliffhangers, sequels and serial forms.
Culture, Afrofuturism & Design
Interdisciplinary research on Afrofuturism, Caribbean design, cosplay, sustainable fashion, material culture and future-making.
Cricket, Management & Caribbean Institutions
Governance, labour, accountability, performance and Caribbean identity through the institutional lens of West Indies cricket.
Building an AI Identity for Barbados: Caribbean Educators Alert
Why Caribbean educators must move from passive adoption to active shaping of AI, grounded in local context, values and educational purpose.
AI: A Modern Threat to Caribbean Academic Identity?
A critical inquiry into whether uncritical AI adoption could deepen dependency and erode Caribbean academic identity.
When AI Becomes the Classroom’s Most Influential Voice
What changes when an AI system becomes a primary source of explanation, feedback and authority for students.
The Caribbean Classroom in the Age of Generative AI
A Caribbean-centred agenda for classroom practice, assessment, teacher capability and responsible AI governance.
When Maslow Met Perplexity™
A dialogue with Maslow about need, motivation, achievement and self-actualization in an AI-mediated world.
Piaget on Trial
Reconsidering construction, readiness and cognitive development when learners have continuous access to generative AI.
Vygotsky on Trial
Re-examining scaffolding and the zone of proximal development when the scaffold can be available continuously through AI.
“Barbados should not enter the AI age as a passive consumer of imported systems, assumptions and pedagogies. It should participate as a producer of scholarship, frameworks, tools and culturally grounded practice.”