https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18870 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:31:03 GMT 2026-04-18T15:31:03Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27394 Title: Creating on site history activities for school children ; an action research project Authors: Vella, Yosanne Abstract: This paper is reporting an Action Research project conducted by the author. It is describing the process that went on in the creation of teaching and learning materials to be used by students on school visits to Maltese historical sites. The teaching approach behind the main objectives of the teaching resources was based on “New History” methods, that is, they target specific hisotry skills and concepts rather than mere factual information. Unfortunately until recently, museums and places of historic interest in Malta did not cater for school children. There have been several innovations as far as tourist guides, pamphlets, DVDs and video recordings of historical sites are concerned but more often than not these are not appropriate for secondary and primary school children. This paper describes the several stages and various objectives behind the development of on site educational teaching history materials. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27394 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19038 Title: A postmodern perspective on the educational attributes of hypertext environments Authors: Camilleri, Patrick Abstract: The integrity and success of an implemented system is always directly dependent on the optimised relationship between input and output (Lyotard,1979). Hypertext environments and Internet in general offer a great educational potential only if they are fully appreciated by the policy makers and the end users themselves including teachers. The involvement of technology in education has always been characterised by systematic cycles of failures or incomplete successes. The nature of Internet and the World Wide Web are still shrouded in mystery and their validity and implementation still brings a sense of unease clearly related to the problem of alienation. Probably if Internet is readily available in schools for long enough to allow proper internalisation and naturalisation by all the participants then it could be appreciated and utilised more effectively. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19038 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19037 Title: Le dit et le non-dit de la "methode" : Francais des Compagnies Aeriennes Authors: Seychell, Laurent Abstract: Cette communication comprend une analyse du dit et du non-dit de la « méthode » : Français des compagnies aériennes, publiée à Malte en 2004. Ce cours de français semi-professionnel pour faux débutants se compose d‘un livre de l‘élève (renfermant le cahier d‘exercices), d‘un livre du professeur (contentant tous les corrigés des exercices) et d‘un CD audio (mp3), d‘une durée de 97 minutes. L‘auteur de cette publication est le même que celui du présent article. Dans le premier volet de son article, l‘auteur présente en les commentant amplement la genèse de la « méthode » ainsi que les cinq composantes qui l‘étaient. Il le dénomme le dit car le professeur en prend conscience déjà à la lecture de l‘introduction du livre qui lui est destiné. Dans le deuxième, par contre, l‘auteur expose toutes les autres stratégies didactiques qui pour indécelables qu‘elles soient dans cette « méthode » ont un rôle important à jouer dans sa constitution. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19037 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18934 Title: Compulsive consumption and commercial media : changing attitudes to spending and saving among Maltese youth Authors: Grixti, Joe Abstract: This paper explores changing patterns in young Maltese people’s attitudes to spending and saving, and how they see their lives and opportunities as being different from those of their parents’ generation. The paper suggests that many of these perceptions have been inflected by the increasingly global and commercialised orientations of the media environments inhabited by today’s youth. It is because these influences are so often unexamined or miscinstructed that more systematic and widespread programmes of critical media education are called for. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/18934 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z