The Dominican Sisters of Voorschoten worked in the field of education on the Island of Sint Maarten, the Dutch Antilles, from 1890 to 1990. Sint Maarten is a Dutch Caribbean Island with its roots in the Caribbean and in The Netherlands. The Sisters set up the infrastructure of Catholic education on Sint Maarten, which is made manifest by the impressive number of schools that they founded. During their time on Sint Maarten, their mission was to teach and educate, a job they have done to the best of their abilities. Education seems to have had a rather conservative character, where the...

The most important tools for the exploration of any field of interest are the other professionals in the field. By sharing their observations, views and ideas and by confronting their insights and conclusions with other alternatives, they not only help one another to grow professionaly and personally, they also contribute to the discovery of yet unknown areas or dimensions as well as to the deepening of the existing knowledge.The ambition of the authors of this publication fits within that scheme of things. By sharing the observations, views and ideas presented in these contributions and by...

At the current moment of the development of a theology or various theologies of or for the Caribbean, one needs to define more than one word. Theology itself needs to be re defined and re examined in the context of the religious experience of the people from this region. One of the achievements of 20th century theories of knowledge and culture has been the increasing awareness that the way things are perceived is intrinsically linked with the background of the "perceiver." In the light of these developments in the field of knowledge and culture theories, Caribbean thinkers and social agents...