Faculty of Education

Arts & Languages in Education

• Methodology of: Maltese; English; Italian; German; French;
  Spanish; History; Religion; Music; Art and Social Studies;
• Related aspects of e-and m-learning;
• First/Second Language Acquisition and Methodology.

Research Projects:
FP6 UNITE Language learning via e- and m-learning;
LINGUA: FEEL (Fun, Easy, Effective way of learning Languages); 
LINGU@NET EUROPA;
TOOL - On-Line Language Learning Materials Design and Development;
EUROPODIANS Language learning via ipods;
ELNPlus - Language learning via the Internet;
EUMEDIS: ODISEAME (Open Distance Inter-University Synergies between Europe, Africa and Middle East);
TNP3 (Thematic Network Project in the Area of Languages III).

Education Studies

• Comparative education focussing on the Mediterranean region, and on the EU;
• Vocational Education and Training, and Lifelong Learning;
• Education in Prisons and closed institutions;
• Ethnographies of school;
• Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire, Lorenzo Milani;
• Workers' Education, Critical Pedagogy;
• Feminist philosophy, theory and pedagogy;
• Narrative theory and research.

Research Projects:
Career guidance in education and the labour market across the EU;
The 'learning society' in the EU and beyond;
Curriculum Development in the Primary Schooling;
Skills Validation process for prisoners;
Adult Education in Malta and in S. Europe incl. Gramsci's southern question and its relevance for adult education in the Mediterranean;
Multi-ethnic Research: Educating for Open mindedness. A Primary school narrative;
Partner in FP7: Religious education in a multicultural society: school and home in comparative context (REMC) submitted under SSH-2007-3.3.1 Cultural interactions and multiculturalism in European societies.

Mathematics, Science & Technical Education

• Various aspects of: Business Education; Computing Education;
• Environmental Education;
• Geography Education;
• Mathematics Education;
• Nutrition, Family & Consumer Studies;
• Physical Education;
• Resources & ICT Education;
• Science Education;
• Technical Design & Technology Education;
• Educational assessment issues;
• Evaluation of MATSEC examinations;
• Gender issues in education;
• NMC (National Minimum Curriculum) implementation;
• Qualitative research methods;
• Quantitative research methods;
• Vocational education & training.

Research Projects:
FP6 project - Biology, health and environmental education for better citizenship;
FP6 project - INCLUD-ED - The project addresses the question of how education contributes to social cohesion in a knowledge based society;
Socrates Project - Aligning a European Higher Educational Structure In Sport Science (AEHESIS);
European Commission Project - Sport in the European Union;
Council of Europe (ECML) project - D1-BLOGS - This project focuses on the design of Web 2.0 technologies for constructivist pedagogies with particular application to language education;
Integrating environmental and social issues in the teaching of Business Education.

Primary Education

• Innovative pedagogies in the teaching of various subject areas;
• Teachers, parents and children's attitudes towards curricular changes, innovations etc.;
• Language and literacy development;
• Bi-lingualism;
• Maths and Science Education in the primary school context;
• Drama, art and expressive arts in education;
• Policy development in early years; quality in early childhood education & care;
• Diversity, empowerment through programmes such as Let Me Learn.

Psychology

• Inclusive Education;
• Children with Autism;
• Down Syndrome and ADHD;
• Stress in families of children with disabilities;
• Forms of support.

Youth & Community Studies

• Youth Policy issues;
• Criminal / Addictive Behaviour;
• Social Psychology issues (eg. stigma);
• Youth Subcultures;
• Youth and Music;
• Youth and the Media;
• Autoethnography;
• Career guidance for persons with disability;
• Non- / In-formal education;
• Schools as community learning centres.

Research Projects:
Risk and Resiliency Research Project; National Action Plan - Youth and Social Exclusion;
The Complementarity Values of Non-formal education to the Formal; National Youth Agency Project.