This essay utilizes autoethnography to explore myriad cultural and institutional practices that impacted the author’s education while she was growing up in Jamaica, West Indies. Informed by and through the use of some postcolonial theory, the information in this text is presented in the form of the creative nonfiction essay and chronicles the ways in which education is a path to economic well‐being as well as a lesson in acculturation.

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关键：将教育作为工具和武器

本文利用民族志来探讨影响作者在西印度群岛牙买加长大的教育的无数文化和制度实践。通过一些后殖民理论的了解和运用，本文中的信息以创造性的非小说论文的形式呈现，并记载了教育是通往经济福祉的途径以及适应文化的途径。