https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/50296 2026-04-14T12:48:51Z 2026-04-14T12:48:51Z Montebello, Maria https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20202 2017-08-07T09:16:49Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Leading for equity : the investing in diversity approach [Book review] Authors: Montebello, Maria Abstract: One of the reasons that many leaders feel disenfranchised from the whole process of leading anymore, is that their essence as leaders is not echoed in the organizations that they lead. They are reduced to being technocrats. Issues of social justice and equity are not central to leadership professional development and practices. These issues are still largely omitted despite the canon of equality legislations that places statutory duties on public authorities including education providers. In the current situation, a narrow set of leadership paradigms for increasingly diverse backgrounds is not sustainable. Promoting leaders in global education and schooling for equity and social justice is a very pressing issue, more than ever before. John P. Portelli and Rosemary Campbell-Stephens take up the challenge of not only demystifying the content and process of current leadership development programmes but to question the underlying principles and the extent to which they engage with the terrain that so many diverse educational leaders have to navigate themselves through.

2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Mayo, Peter https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20201 2017-07-01T01:21:04Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: La creazione sociale : relazioni e contesti per educare [Book review] Authors: Mayo, Peter Abstract: This fine essay (saggio) by the University of Verona scholar, Antonia De Vita, provides us with an eruidte exploration of the conditions which permit the kind of atomised individualistic approaches to life and its bearing on the capitalist world as well as explores alternative conditions, embedded in alternative social relations, that allow for diferent and more humanistic types of social reations and social creation. These alternative conditions have the potential to usher in an alternative world which is less exploitative, less predatory and less inhuman. It is inteded to foster a form of social and economic organisation which has love and solidarity at its core.

2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Galea, Simone https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20200 2017-07-01T01:21:03Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Educating the migrant girl : a politics of difference Authors: Galea, Simone Abstract: This paper problematises discourses about integration, their claims for accommodating difference and their implications in conceptualising the education of young migrant women. In thinking about the ethics and politics of integration and particularly those that are promoted through discursive frameworks generated by EU institutional mechanisms I argue that they reflect a politics of assimilation that does not allow educational processes of becoming different. A politics of difference, in spite of the possibilities of generating conflict within schools and classes would better inform our thinking about an education that democratically attends to student differences. I shall draw on situations and examples related to the education of young migrant women to suggest that processes of migration, rather than those of integration, can be important sources in conceptualising education as processes of transformation where becoming different women is possible.

2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Cabrera, Mª Asuncion Asin https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20199 2017-07-01T01:21:02Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Unaccompanied immigrant minors in the canary islands : a legal approach Authors: Cabrera, Mª Asuncion Asin Abstract: The Canary Islands have received significant numbers of unaccompanied minors, especially during 2006. This phenomenon has resulted in the need to develop an appropriate policy response across the Spanish State and the European Union. The proposals to establish special protected status for unaccompanied migrant children have generated considerable controversy within the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, since it has assumed competence for taking the necessary measures for the protection of minors within its territory. This article provides an overview of the relevant legislation and policies on reception, return and integration applicable to unaccompanied minors, analysing the difficulties that policymakers must take into account as they address the phenomenon of child migration.

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