https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/1164 2026-07-24T04:03:16Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/148113 Title: UNESCO Chair in global adult education : second international conference on critical adult education and learning : the book of abstracts Authors: Tutar, Peri; Mayo, Peter; Brown, Maria Abstract: The University of Malta Valletta Campus hosted, once again following 2023, an international conference organised by the UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education on 6–7 November 2025. The conference brought together over 70 participants from South and North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, reflecting the global reach and relevance of Critical Adult Learning and Education (CALE). Building on the earlier conference held in May 2023 in the context of the International Critical Education Conference (ICCE), CALE 2025 focused exclusively on critical adult education and learning. The conference took place at a historical moment marked by rampant populism, the erosion of distinctions between fact and fiction, intensifying militarisation, corporate encroachment into public spaces, and the growing reduction of education to a narrow technical activity. Against this backdrop, CALE 2025 sought to reaffirm the urgency of critical adult education research and practice. In the spirit of its predecessor, the conference aimed to move beyond critique as denunciation, embracing critique as a generative practice—one that combines critical analysis with the exploration of emancipatory possibilities. The guiding imperative was clear: liberating praxis or sheer barbarism. The strong engagement and enthusiasm of participants reaffirmed CALE as a significant space for international dialogue in adult and continuing education. [Foreword by Prof. Peter Mayo] 2025-11-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145882 Title: Behavioral economics and monetary wisdom : a cross‐level analysis of monetary aspiration, pay (dis)satisfaction, risk perception, and corruption in 32 nations Authors: Tang, Thomas Li-Ping; Li, Zhen; Özbek, Mehmet Ferhat; Lim, Vivien K. G.; Teo, Thompson S. H.; Ansari, Mahfooz A.; Sutarso, Toto; Garber, Ilya; Chiu, Randy Ki-Kwan; Charles-Pauvers, Brigitte; Urbain, Caroline; Luna-Arocas, Roberto; Chen, Jingqiu; Tang, Ningyu; Tang, Theresa Li-Na; Arias-Galicia, Fernando; De La Torre, Consuelo Garcia; Vlerick, Peter; Akande, Adebowale; Al-Zubaidi, Abdulqawi Salim; Kazem, Ali Mahdi; Borg, Mark G.; Cheng, Bor-Shiuan; Du, Linzhi; Ibrahim, Abdul Hamid Safwat; Kim, Kilsun; Malovics, Eva; Mpoyi, Richard T.; Ugochukwu Nnedum, Obiajulu Anthony; Sardžoska, Elisaveta Gjorgj; Allen, Michael W.; Correia, Rosário; Jen, Chin-Kang; Moreira, Alice S.; Osagie, Johnston E.; Osman-Gani, AAhad M.; Pholsward, Ruja; Polic, Marko; Skobic, Petar; Stembridge, Allen F.; Canova, Luigina; Manganelli, Anna Maria; Pitariu, Adrian H.; Costa Pereira, Francisco José Abstract: Corruption involves greed, money, and risky decision-making. We explore the love of money, pay satisfaction, probability of risk, and dishonesty across cultures. Avaricious monetary aspiration breeds unethicality. Prospect theory frames decisions in the gains-losses domain and high-low probability. Pay dissatisfaction (in the losses domain) incites dishonesty in the name of justice at the individual level. The Corruption Perceptions Index, CPI, signals a high-low probability of getting caught for dishonesty at the country level. We theorize that decision-makers adopt avaricious love-of- money aspiration as a lens and frame dishonesty in the gains-losses domain (pay satisfaction-dissatisfaction, Level 1) and high-low probability (CPI, Level 2) to maximize expected utility and ultimate serenity. We challenge the myth: Pay satisfaction mitigates dishonesty across nations consistently. Based on 6500 managers in 32 countries, our cross-level three-dimensional visualization offers the following discoveries. Under high aspiration conditions, pay dissatisfaction excites the highest-( third-highest) avaricious justice-seeking dishonesty in high (medium) CPI nations, supporting the certainty effect. However, pay satisfaction provokes the second-highest avaricious opportunity-seizing dishonesty in low CPI entities, sustaining the possibility effect—maximizing expected utility. Under low aspiration conditions, high pay satisfaction consistently leads to low dishonesty, demonstrating risk aversion—achieving ultimate serenity. We expand prospect theory from a micro and individual-level theory to a cross-level theory of monetary wisdom across 32 nations. We enhance the S-shaped Curve to three 3-D corruption surfaces across three levels of the global economic pyramid, providing novel insights into behavioral economics, business ethics, the environment, and responsibility. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/144066 Title: Gramsci, der Kolonialismus und die Befreiungspolitik Authors: Mayo, Peter Abstract: Dieser Beitrag basiert auf der Annahme, dass Kolonialismus und Neokolonialismus vielfältige Formen und Problemstellungen annehmen können und dass sie die "heterogene Menge" subalterner "Subjektpositionen" adressieren (Slemon 1995, S. 45). Ausgehend von einer früheren Arbeit (Mayo 2015) wird sich der Autor in dem Beitrag auf zwei Aspekte beschränken: (a) Die gramscianischen Konzepte von Hegemonie und dem, was ich als "deplazierte Allianzen" bezeichne (Mayo 2016). Beides wird der Autor mit Paulo Freires Konzepten eines "Bewusstsein der Unterdrückten" und der "kulturellen Invasion" in Beziehung setzen. (b) Die sehr komplexe Problematik der Sprache in einer postunabhängigen, postkolonialen Situation. Diese Aspekte spielen vor allem in jenen Kontexten eine herausragende Rolle, in denen der direkte Kolonialismus (Said 1994, S. 8) gekennzeichnet ist durch die Anwesenheit einer Besatzungsmacht, und folgend der Neokolonialismus und, um Gramscis Perspektive zu übernehmen, der interne Kolonialismus (Gramsci 1997) ihre Präsenz oft grob und äußerst gewalttätig spürbar machen. (DIPF/Orig.) 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142880 Title: Il-kuntest tal-kunflitt Għarbi-Iżraeljan Authors: Grech, Michael Abstract: Biex inkunu ċari din mhix kitba li se timmoralizza fuq suġġett li, madankollu, pożizzjoni morali dwaru wieħed ma jistax ma jiħux. Fis-sens, biex nibqgħu fuq ġrajjiet li seħħew fi żminijiet reċenti, wieħed ma jistax ma jikkundannax l-attakk barbaru tas-sebgħa ta’ Ottubru 2023, il-martirju li għaddew/għaddejjin minnu l-ostaġġi, il-massakru ta’ ċivili f’Gaża mill-armata Iżraeljana, u l-qtil bil-ġuħ ta’ nies innoċenti minħabba l-azzjonijiet tal-Gvern Iżraeljan. L-istess huma kundannabbli l-attakki minn Iżrael fuq pajjiżi f’dik in-naħa tad-dinja, li ġabu riskju li l-kunflitt ikompli jikber fi gwerra reġjonali. Fil-każ tal-Qatar ukoll, ġie attakkat pajjiż li seta’ jkun medjatur. Biex ma nsemmux inġustizzji li ilhom snin, bħal ngħidu aħna l-fatt li l-Palestinjani ma kellhomx ċans ikollhom stat. Kif għedt, imma, l-għan ta’ din il-kitba mhix li tagħti ġudizzju morali ta’ min għandu raġun jew tort. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z