https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52592 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:42:38 GMT 2026-04-05T12:42:38Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52615 Title: Streaming : knowledge and attitudes Authors: Vassallo Agius, Suzanne; Gatt, Christine Abstract: Recently, there have been a number of contributions to the local press as to whether Government primary schools should be streamed or not. These letters discussed various issues such as the role of the teacher, the relationship between pupils and teachers; and the relationship between teachers and pupils of different abilities. Unfortunately, these opinions were only expressed by University lecturers, politicians and researchers. The voices of the teachers, parents and children involved in streaming were not heard. On 14 June 1988, the Department of Information, in a Press Release, stated that a committee set up by the Ministry of Education was attempting to investigate the opinions of parents and teachers on the system. However, no results have been published as yet. It was for this reason that in our study we concentrated on such an issue in order to open a new field where such attitudes are given primary importance. It was not the purpose of our study to make a case for or against streaming. The study was designed to gather ethnographical material on the knowledge and attitudes that the pupils and their parents have towards streaming. It also attempted to trace out the part played by these attitudes in determining the success of failure of a pupil's academic performance. Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52615 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52614 Title: Streaming in Malta : current practices and future prospects Authors: Borg, Mark G.; Falzon, Joseph M. Abstract: One of the most controversial issues in education is whether or· not primary and secondary school- children should be taught in streamed classes. This paper proposes to consider some of the criticisms directed at the practice of streaming as an organisational policy in Maltese state schools; it will also provide an evaluation of the system of streaming at the primary level vis-a-vis some of its major criticisms. Finally, some of the major organizational alternatives to streaming will be considered. Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52614 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52613 Title: Ethical considerations in selection and streaming in education Authors: Hirst, Paul H. Abstract: Under this rather forbidding title I want to dig below the immediately practical questions to do with selection and streaming in schools and look at certain of the fundamental moral and social value questions that pervade debates on these topics. In doing this I am not seeking to evade the directly practical issues that arise. It is rather that, in an area where much of the empirical evidence on what happens under different practical arrangements is inconclusive and raises such sharp controversy, there is a danger that we lose sight of what is really at stake. The analytical exercise of the kind I shall undertake therefore seeks to bring to the fore just those basic issues of principle on which any organisation of schooling inevitably takes some stand. After all what we really want is a system that as far as possible embodies the principles we really espouse rather than one locked into principles we have inadequately examined. The basic question I am therefore addressing is: what are the principles of selection and streaming we think the educational system should reflect and what can we say about the practical organisation of the system simply on these grounds. Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52613 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52612 Title: Education : volume 3 : number 3 Authors: Falzon, Joseph M.; Borg, Mark G. Abstract: Table of contents: 1/ Editorial -- 2/ HIRST, P. H. - Ethical Considerations in Selection and Streaming in Education -- 3/ SULTANA, R. G. - Streaming: A Sociological Perspective -- 4/ BORG, M. G., & FALZON, J. M. - Streaming in Malta: Current Practices and Future Prospects -- 5/ VASSALLO AGIUS, S., & GATT, C. - Streaming: Knowledge and Attitudes -- 6/ Events -- 7/ Notes on contributors. Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52612 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z