https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36446 2026-04-04T20:56:08Z 2026-04-04T20:56:08Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18506 2019-05-20T08:59:12Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies : Volume 1, Issue 1 Abstract: The MJES is a biannual refereed international journal with a regional focus. It features educational research carried out in Mediterranean countries, as well as educational studies related to the diaspora of Mediterranean people world-wide. The journal offers a forum for theoretical debate, historical and comparative studies, research and project reports, thus facilitating dialogue in a region which has strong and varied educational traditions. There is an important international dimension to this dialogue, given the profile of the Mediterranean in the configuration of the new world order, and the presence of Mediterranean peoples in Europe, North America and elsewhere. Description: This issue includes : Pour un dialogue culturel renove: memoire selective et systemes educatifs (Comments) / Paul Balta - La Mediterranee et l'Europe (Comment) / Predrag Matvejevic - Southern Europe ... Mediterranean Europe ... Mediterraneo (Comment) - Marco Todeschini - Special issue of the CEDEJ journal, Egypte/Monde Arabe, Nos. 8-9 (1994), L'Education en Egypte (Book Review) / Ronald G. Sultana - Panayotis K. Persianis, H ekpaidefsi tis Kiprou mprosta stin proklisi tis Evropis (Cyprus Education in view of the European Challenge) (Book Review) / Sofia Avitidou - Conference Announcements - Abstracts

1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Matsagouras, Elias Riding, Stewart https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18505 2017-05-15T11:34:31Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The rating of educational aims by Greek and English student-teachers Authors: Matsagouras, Elias; Riding, Stewart Abstract: 60 Greek and 60 English Primary teacher-training students rated 25 educational aims on a five-point scale under three conditions: (a) representing their estimates of the priorities of their own former Primary teachers; (b) representing what they took to be the views of their present lecturers; and (c) indicating their own intentions for their teaching career. The result showed the two sets of students to have taken up very similar stances in nearly all respects and to be further united in the belief that they had moved a long way from prevailing ideologies of their own schooldays. The findings are discussed in relation to the patterns of Primary Schooling and Teacher Education in both countries.

1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sabour, M'hammed https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18504 2017-05-15T11:35:17Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Women in the Moroccan academic field : respectability and power Authors: Sabour, M'hammed Abstract: This paper aims at outlining the power and academic respectability that women have in Moroccan academia. The data, which privilege the perceptions that these academics have of themselves, were collected by means of a questionnaire distributed to 49 female professors, associate professors, assistant professors, assistants and researchers from three universities in Morocco. 12 of these women were also interviewed. Due to historical and cultural factors Arab women have entered the academic field only relatively recently, that is between three to four decades ago. There has lately been a very significant increase in the proportion of women in academia, and in some sectors more than 30% of University teaching staff are women. However, due to traditional and social constraints, these academics are not satisfied with their position and status. In this regard, the Moroccan academic field can be still considered to be dominated by men. This domination is crystallised in the way appointments to posts of responsibility are made, in the decision-making process at the administration level which, in most cases, favours men and in the attitude men have towards the academic abilities and achievements of women. In this respect, in spite of their scientific and cultural capital, many Moroccan women academics consider that the status and the recognition accorded to them leave much to be desired.

1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18503 2017-05-15T11:36:08Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Teaching languages in a culturally diverse environment : the case of Israel Authors: Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah Abstract: The basis for the present paper is the perception that (a) the importance of teaching languages derives from an image of language as the most striking indicator of culture; and (b) in this context the word 'environment' is a synonym for a political entity. probably a 'state'. Every state has a unique historical and cultural configuration which justifies the ways in which language teaching is inserted into the educational system. In this paper, I discuss the backdrop for aspects of language teaching in Israeli schooling. The data that I present relate to a specific problem: the difficulties that beset members of groups with different cultural·origins when they communicate in the 'same' language. The obstacles place a particular interpretation on proficiency and place politics at the center of the problematic of language teaching and learning.

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