Saint Kitts and Nevis,officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis,is an island country and microstate consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis,both located in the West Indies,in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles. With 261 square kilometres (101 sq mi) of territory,and roughly 50,000 inhabitants,it is the smallest sovereign state in the Western Hemisphere,in both area and population,as well as the world's smallest sovereign federation. The country is a Commonwealth realm,with Charles III as King and head of state. It is the only sovereign federation in the Caribbean.
Saint Kitts,officially Saint Christopher,is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea,and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Kitts and the neighbouring island of Nevis constitute one country:the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saint Kitts and Nevis are separated by a shallow 3-kilometre (2 mi) channel known as "The Narrows".
The College of Wooster is a private liberal arts college in Wooster,Ohio. Founded in 1866 by the Presbyterian Church as the University of Wooster,it has been officially non-sectarian since 1969 when ownership ties with the Presbyterian Church ended. From its creation,the college has been a co-educational institution. It enrolls about 2,000 students and is a member of The Five Colleges of Ohio,Great Lakes Colleges Association,and the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities.
Tilburg University is a public research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences,economics,law,business sciences,theology and humanities,located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands.
Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki was an American academic,historian,ethnographer and author. Born in pre-statehood Hawaii,Takaki studied at the College of Wooster and completed his doctorate in American history at the University of California,Berkeley.
The University of the West Indies (UWI),originally University College of the West Indies,is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean:Anguilla,Antigua and Barbuda,The Bahamas,Barbados,Belize,Bermuda,British Virgin Islands,Cayman Islands,Dominica,Grenada,Guyana,Jamaica,Montserrat,Saint Kitts and Nevis,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,Trinidad and Tobago,and Turks and Caicos Islands. Each country is either a member of the Commonwealth of Nations or a British Overseas Territory. The aim of the university is to help "unlock the potential for economic and cultural growth" in the West Indies,thus allowing improved regional autonomy. The university was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London.
Global citizenship is the idea that one's identity transcends geography or political borders and that responsibilities or rights are derived from membership in a broader class:"humanity". This does not mean that such a person denounces or waives their nationality or other,more local identities,but that such identities are given "second place" to their membership in a global community. Extended,the idea leads to questions about the state of global society in the age of globalization.
Richard Guarasci was the 18th president of Wagner College in Staten Island,New York. He took office on June 1,2002 and,as of July 1,2016,was the college's longest-serving president. He held the rank of professor of political science and taught in the areas of democracy,citizenship and American diversity. Following Guarasci's retirement on June 30,2019,he became Wagner College's third president emeritus.
Durham Law School is the law school of Durham University in Durham,England. In 2022,Durham Law was ranked 5th in the UK in a league table which averaged the rankings of the Complete University Guide,The Guardian and the Times University League Table. Durham Law School is ranked 34th in the world for law in the 2022 Times Higher Education ranking and 49th in the world for law by the 2022 QS ranking.
Carlos Alberto Torres Novoa is a distinguished professor.
Ali A. Abdi is a Somali-Canadian sociologist and educationist. Currently,he is a professor of social development education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,Canada,where he previously served as head of department. Before that,he was a professor of International Education and International Development at the University of Alberta in Edmonton,Alberta,Canada,where he also served as the founding co-director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER). He is past president of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC). In addition,he is the founding editor/co-editor of the peer-reviewed online publications Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education and Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry.
Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland,Elkins Professor of the University System of Maryland,Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law,and past President of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). His work primarily concerns the philosophy of law,legal theory,and global justice with an emphasis on international law,constitutional law,comparative law and legal history. He has been a Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland since 2003,the highest honor in the UM System. Sellers is best known for his books on republican legal and political philosophy,global justice,international law,and universal human rights. He has been Director of the University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law since 1994.
James Albert Banks is an American educator and the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus and founding director of the University of Washington's Center for Multicultural Education,which is now the Banks Center for Educational Justice. He focuses on the discipline of multicultural education.
Shawn Kenneth Richards is a Saint Kitts and Nevis politician from People's Action Movement.
Ratna Ghosh is a Canadian academic and education scholar. She is a Distinguished James McGill Professor and Sir William C. Macdonald Professor of Education at McGill University in Montreal,Canada,where she previously served as the Dean of the Faculty of Education from 1998 –2003.
Katharyne Mitchell is an American geographer who is currently a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the Dean of the Social Sciences at the University of California,Santa Cruz.
Mejai Bola Mike Avoseh is a professor of adult and higher education at the University of South Dakota. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of adult education,comparative/international/multi-cultural education and indigenous pedagogy. He is a member of the board of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) since 2016,and of the International Society for Comparative Adult Education (ISCAE) from 2020 to 2023,and the Director of the Commission for International Adult Education (CIAE) of AAACE.
The primary law governing Saint Kitts and Nevis nationality regulations is the Saint Christopher and Nevis Citizenship Act,which came into force on 28 February 1984.
Gita Steiner-Khamsi is a Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College,the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,and the Harriman Institute,Columbia University in New York.
Liz Jackson is an American education scholar and leader known for her work in philosophy of education and educational theory. She is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of International Education in the Faculty of Education and Human Development at the Education University of Hong Kong. Previously she was associate professor at the University of Hong Kong,where she also served as the Director of the Master of Education Program and the Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC). She is also a Fellow and Past President (2018-2020) of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). Jackson's work has earned numerous awards and honours internationally and in Hong Kong.
