https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52625 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:23:45 GMT 2026-04-07T12:23:45Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51766 Title: Teaching art appreciation at the fine arts museum Authors: Mayo, Peter Abstract: Since its official opening on the 7th May 1974, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta has been regarded as one of the best sources of cultural enrichment on the island. Its contribution to the education of adults and youngsters, especially those interested in the representational arts, should indeed be considerable and local art masters in the secondary schools and higher institutions may fully avail themselves of such a source. Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51766 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51765 Title: Meeting teachers' needs (2) : effects of change : in-service education and training (INSET) Authors: Bonnici, George Abstract: In-service education for teachers in Malta is older than initial training. The induction courses for emergency teachers (1957-59), the maturity courses for serving teachers (1962-65), summer vacation courses of the late sixties, the evening courses for teachers and instructors in the trade schools and in further education schools (1965-68), as well as to some extent, the first share of the five year B.Ed (Hons) programme, are all examples of education and training of teachers which is both initial and in-service. In some cases it is difficult to find a line of demarcation between initial and in-service as well as between education and training. Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51765 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51764 Title: Sex differences in mathematical performance : what do we know about them? Authors: Dalli, Carmen Abstract: It is generally accepted that mathematics is one academic field where male superiority of achievement is well-established. Far fewer women than men go into careers as mathematicians and those who do, generally do not reach equal employment status with men. Such facts seem to be the culmination of sex differences in mathematical performance which begin to appear around the age of 12 to 15. Up till then, the mathematical performance of boys and girls seems to be fairly equal at any of the three cognitive levels of computation, knowledge of concepts and problem-solving ability on which mathematical achievement is most common:y gauged. The change in performance at the secondary level of schooling tends to be in favour of males who are seen to perform better than females particularly on tasks involving visual spatialisation ability and mathematical reasoning. The girls' discontinuity of performance, even when they have had an identical learning background, has prompted researchers to investigate possible explanations for a phenomenon which Walden and Walkerdine (1982) stress should not be confused with an "overall failure." Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51764 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51763 Title: Making teaching a profession : a comparative view Authors: Webster, J. R. Abstract: The traditional role of a 'teacher is that of the guardian and transmitter of spiritual wisdom. Thus in the Christian-west, teaching was originally the prerogative of the priest; in Islam that of the imam or mullah; in India that of the guru. In Europe, despite the growth of humanism and the gradula secion of education during the sixteenth centuries, the teacher in grammar school, gymnasium or lycee retained a special status. He may no longer have solely been concerned with the world of the spirit, but he still had esoteric and professionally useful knowledge that he could pass on to a privileged elite, a status that has been retained to the present century by teachers in universities and selective secondary schools. Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51763 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z