The second (expanded) edition of Yesterday’s Schools: Readings in Maltese Educational History, has just been published. Edited by Professor Ronald G. Sultana, director of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research, and member of the Faculty of Education, the volume presents 16 chapters looking at Education in Malta before the Knights (Charles Dalli); Education in Hospitaller Malta (Carmel Cassar); the Collegium Melitense and the Universitas Studiorum to 1798 (Stanley Fiorini); Vassalli and Education (Frans Ciappara); Napoleon’s Vision for Education in Malta (Carmelo Testa); Technical and Vocational Education in 19th Century Malta (Ronald G. Sultana); P.P. Pullicino’s Educational Legacy (Joseph J. Camilleri); A Genealogy of Teachers as Mothers in Malta (Simone Galea); The Colonial State, Schooling and Maltese Society 1814–1914 (John Chircop); The Language Question and Education (Joseph M. Brincat); A Village School in Malta (George Cassar); Laferla and Education (Josienne Abela); Education of Children with Disability in Malta (Paul A. Bartolo); Educational Trajectories and Personal Histories (JosAnn Cutajar); Comprehensive Education in Malta (Desmond Zammit Marmarà); and Dom Mintoff and the Worker-Student Scheme (Peter Mayo). The volume takes stock of where Malta is at in relation to educational historiography, and sets the agenda for future work in terms of both content and method.
“This is a fascinating set of original papers that is a major contribution to a deeper understanding not only of the historical experience of Maltese education, but of education, schooling and teachers in Malta today.” (Professor Gary McCulloch, Director, International Centre for Historical Research in Education, UCL Institute of Education, University College, London).
The volume is published by Xirocco, a non-profit publisher.
ISBN 978-99957-1-178-8
317 pages, 117 illustrations
Copies at cost price (€25) can be ordered directly from emcer@um.edu.mt