https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18453 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:17:41 GMT 2026-04-04T13:17:41Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113479 Title: Technologie et systeme educatif en Algerie [Book review] Abstract: In Algeria, the word Technology seems like a magic incantation people chant in order to conjure up better days for the country, if only, as they say, its transfer was possible. However, the present book reviewed is in no way into this kind of mental state. It deals with the incursion (one cannot speak of a systematic use) of technology into the educational system, which spells problems because of some known social, economic, cultural and political characteristics of the country, which do not always faci}jtate the somehow natural encounter between both processes. Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113479 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113478 Title: Systems of knowledge : a guide. Book 1 - Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Middle Ages and Renaissance [Book review] Abstract: This textbook is the result of the co-operative and evaluative efforts of a group of teachers described in the book's foreword as having 'expertise of both the difficulties and rewards of stimulating teenagers to perceive the connection between spheres of knowledge and the values of existence'. It caters for a long felt need in Maltese higher secondary education, and it signals important and ground-breaking curricular developments in the teaching and examination of the subject 'Systems of Knowledge', which is a pre-requisite to University studies in Malta. Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113478 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113471 Title: Lifelong learning in Israel [Book review] Abstract: This book explores the wide variety of educational programmes in Israel. The vantage point from which both the editor and the contributors approach adult education is that of practice. The writers are personally involved in the various programmes (as initiators or teachers) and provide a collection of case studies based on their own roles within these programmes. These activities encompass everything including basic literacy, 'second chance' (pre-academic) programmes and popular education. The book provides a comprehensive account of the educational activities for diverse ethnic groups, veteran and recent immigrants, Ethiopians and Israeli Arabs. It also illuminates on adult education programmes within the Kibbutz Movement, the Labour Movement and the Israeli Army, stressing the unique functions of adult education within these frameworks. Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113471 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113470 Title: Religion and education : Islamic and Christian approaches [Book review] Abstract: Religion and Education: Islamic and Christian Approaches is a compilation of papers presented in a series of public lectures and seminars on religion and education at the University of Cambridge between 1983 and 1989. Five of the authors are themselves academics at that institution, four of them in education and also Christian. Other authors include a Muslim social scientist in the U.S.A., a Muslim academic in earth sciences in Saudi Arabia, a Christian academic in English in England, a Christian academic in education in Northern Ireland, a Muslim academic in religious studies in England, a Christian minister in England, and a Muslim who is an education inspector in England. Thus, nine of the authors are academics, and five of them are educationalists. A11 share an impassioned interest in advocating religious education; all share a rejection of secular education; and all share a desire to replace the existing public, secular education with public religious education. Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113470 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z