Yosanne Vella : is a Professor at the University of Malta and the History and Social Studies co-ordinator of the Faculty of Education. She obtained her first degree B.Ed (Bachelor of Education) from the University of Malta in 1984, her Masters and MPhil degrees from the University of London in 1991 and 1996 respectively and her doctorate from University of the West of England, Bristol in 2002. Her area specialisation is pedagogy of History and she teaches BA, M.T.L./M.Ed student teachers. She was a History teacher for a number of years both in Malta and in England where she taught History at primary, secondary and sixth form level. Prof. Vella is one of the associate editors of the "International Journal of Historical Learning Teaching and Research" published by the University of Exeter. She has written various books, textbooks and academic papers on history teaching, and she is presently one of the editors of Historiana, a Euroclio (the European History Educators Association) online history textbook.
She was one of the Vice-Chairs of the Committee for Education and Culture at the NGOs Conference of the Council of Europe from 2012 to 2014. Her areas of research mainly focus on finding effective history pedagogy that involves children's history thinking and understanding.
She is presently the President of Malta's History Teachers' Association and was the Vice- President of Malta's History Society till 2019.
She was recently on Sabbatical leave in Australia where she gave papers to undergraduate and Masters' students as well as to fellow academics on ‘teaching change and continuity in history to secondary school children' and on 'using history teaching to combat Islamophobia'. The presentations were given at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, at Victoria University's Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria and at the Faculty of Education of Newcastle University in New South Wales.
VELLA, Y., 2020. The case of the slave cook who was accused of trying to poison her mistress. Food as 'Voice' Proceedings of History Week 2017, 1(November 2017 Proceedings), pp. 110-117.
VELLA, Y., 2020. The Development and Progress of the 'Source Method' as a History Teaching Method. Practical Classroom Examples from Malta. In: BERG, CHRISTOPHER, CHRISTOU, THEODORE, ed, The Plagrave Handbook of History and Social Studies Education. 1st edn. US: Palgrave Macmillan Higher Education, pp. 119-to 142.
VELLA, Y., 2020. Teaching bias in history lessons: An example using Maltese history. History Education Research Journal, 17, no 1(Spring 2020), pp. 224-234.
VELLA, Y., ed, 2019. Ninvestigaw l-Istorja ta' Malta (Is-7 Sena). 1st edn. Malta: HTA.
VELLA, Y., ed, 2019. Ninvestigaw l-Istorja ta Malta Volume 2 Year 8. 1st edn. Malta: HTA.
VELLA, Y., 2018. The search for Maltese troublemakers in Australia. Provenance Public Records Office Victoria, 2016-2017(15), pp. 79-87.
VELLA, Y., 2017. Women in Malta in the Eighteenth Century. 1st edn. Malta: SKS.
VELLA, Y., 2016. Teaching History in the Secondary School approaches, multiculturalism and writing skills. 1st edn. Malta: History Teachers Association.
VELLA, Y., 2015. History in Malta's New National Curriculum Framework. In: H. COOPER and J. NICHOLS, eds, Identity, Trauma, Sensitive and Controversal Issues in Teaching History. 1st edn. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 222-239.
VELLA, Y., 2015. The problem with teaching history as part of an integrated or interdisciplinary cross-curricular pedagogical approach. International Journal of Historical Learning Teaching and Research. University of Exeter, 13(1),.
One of the Editors of on going online European History Textbook Historiana managed by Euroclio European History Teachers Association Network 2010 -
CHE _ Civic and History Education Vienna EU Project Assessment, tutorial structures and initial teacher education of trainee students in History and Social Studies and Civics – a comparative study
Vice Chair of Education and Culture Committee of the Council of Europe
Vice President of the Maltese History Teachers Association
