Managing Challenging Behaviour: A British Caribbean Perspective (2009) Grenadian-born educationist and literature specialist, Roselle Antoine has, once again proved that there is no limit to her commitment to education and community development, in publishing a ground-breaking book.

Managing Challenging Behaviour: A British Caribbean Perspective (2009)

Ground-Breaking Book – Britain's Answer to Growing Youth Disaffection?

Grenadian-born educationist and literature specialist, Roselle Antoine, who led a delegation to the Caribbean in l999, to conduct an intensive research into the Caribbean cultural industries sector, has, once again proved that there is no limit to her commitment to education and community development, in publishing a ground-breaking book entitled, Managing challenging Behaviour: A British Caribbean Perspective. This book has been reviewed with the following comments:

"A ground-breaking, outstanding book about managing challenging behaviour and schools exclusions". Francesca Muhammad, Chartered Educational Psychologist

"One of the most unique and insightful publications ever produced in British education history". Dr. Christopher Johnson, Author and Business Management Consultant

"I think you have written a fantastic piece of work. You have a good knowledge of the workings of the youth". Clarence Cole, Criminologist

"This book is a guide and a must read for those who manage children and behaviour in society." Professor Charles Anyanwu, College Principal

An ebullient educator, unique literature specialist and consummate entrepreneur, Dr. Antoine has made a major contribution to education enterprise and community development in England by perfecting The Antoine Behavioural Excellence Model (ABEM© l994), for children underachieving in mainstream schools and for whom fixed exclusion or permanent expulsion exist in their lives. By combining enterprise management with community participation involving parents, families and the wider community, Dr. Antoine has facilitated a gold standard in education as a service and a business, via TCS Tutorial College, and TCS Primary (Special Needs) School, businesses that she founded and leads as Principal since 1994.

Managing Challenging Behaviour: A British Caribbean Perspective presents Dr. Antoine's Behaviour Excellence model which has been developed as a result of a consistent pattern of emotional and behavioural difficulties affecting young pupils, and which impacts on their ability to engage in the educational curriculum. Invariably, this leads to disaffections, high levels of school exclusions and expulsions and an increasing engagement with the criminal justice system. The Model is based on an all-inclusive participation of the community in all areas of the curriculum. Dr. Antoine's book shows how she has utilised the ethno-cultural diversity approach to solidify the existing curriculum and equally, developed a teaching and learning pathway that is being gradually replicated through the country by agencies and institutions involved in education and training provision.

Dr. Roselle Antoine MBE, personifies qualities of a mentor, role model, exemplar and 'progressivist'. As President of The Roselle Antoine Foundation, an international charity she pioneered in 2001, she embodies the role of Civic Ambassador in the field of human development. She inspires young people, professionals, families and institutions, by encouraging them to choose the path of fulfilment through individual and collective achievement. That indeed represents her forte in the field of educational enterprise.

In recognizing her sterling qualities nationally, Her Majesty, The Queen conferred the MBE Award on Dr. Antoine in Her New Year Honours' 2006, for her extraordinary services to education and community development. Antoine has received other accolades including nomination in the National Teacher Award 2007, Woman of the Year 2007, for her contribution to education and community development, in the form of an international award for District Lions Club Membership Development - England (105A - 2004-5), Other awards include Outstanding Contribution to Multicultural Education 1999, Education Excellence 2002, and Award of Merit 2002, Businesswoman of the Year 2003. She has been featured on Independent Television, ITV1 as a 'Wonder Woman' in 'This Morning' Programme, and there is good reason for this description of Dr. Antoine. She works tirelessly also in the international arena, with her UK Registered charity, The Roselle Antoine Foundation, focusing around the globe in the following:

The Caribbean: The Grenada Project - working with Special Education Needs institutions and championing the cause of Special Education Needs within National Curriculum delivery. Europe - (UK & France) Dr. Antoine has been instrumental in Developing Young Ambassadors of her Charity (11 - 21 year old youths); within programmes that promote self-development, motivation, leadership skills, achievement, responsibility, self-reliance, friendship and teamwork. Africa - Sierra Leone Project - her passion for young people has enabled her to embrace the disabled, displaced, amputees, orphans of War-torn Sierra Leone, in a bid to remove barriers to their education and well-being with her charity's Developmental Programmes..

And if that's not enough, Dr. Antoine most recent humanitarian and civic ambassadorial act has been to provide National and International Scholarships in her quest to improve not only targets around education, but also to give members of disadvantaged communities a sense of achievement, duty and responsibility, and improved life-chances via opportunities of scholarships, that would otherwise evade them.

Dr. Antoine has every good reason to feel proud of her latest book achievement, as over the past quarter of a century, she has continued a persistent journey of taking education to greater and higher heights, beyond boundaries. Parents have described her work as a wonderful example of pastoral care and a modern approach to teaching learning. The interface of clients, including teachers and students, is awe-inspiring, as they draw strength from each other's background, thereby harmonizing the fertility of multicultural education across the political and social divide. The model for teaching and learning as described in Dr. Antoine's book, Managing Challenging Behaviour: A British Caribbean Perspective (2009), is evident in the striking successes of young people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, who believe that the infusion of their culture is an imperative, not a token gesture or other form of social appeasement.

In many ways, Dr. Antoine and her institutional frameworks (Primary, Secondary Schools and Charity), are microcosms of the United Nations, with colours and textures blending in a canopy of institutional governance. Their activities transcend the most vaunted critic of social responsibility vis-à-vis commercial necessity, an ethos that is consistent with mainstream involvement in education and training matters.

A Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and an Executive member of The Council for Education in the Commonwealth (CEC), Dr. Antoine's inspiring motto for her young people is, 'I am Somebody Great!' No doubt, this is the greatest stimulus for those whom she guides on to high levels of educational achievements and improved levels of production and productivity in their lives.

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(ISBN: 978 -0-9542325-7-3) is available from: TCS Tutorial College Press 55 Palmerston Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA3 7RR. Tel: (44) 208 863 0330: Dr Roselle Antoine MBE Unit Price: £20.00 2-5 copies £18.00 6-10copies £15.00 11-50 copies £10.00