https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52630 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:38:01 GMT 2026-04-09T08:38:01Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51723 Title: Young people's needs : a head teacher's view Authors: Caruana, Charles Abstract: It is common to hear parents and teachers complain about how difficult the task of educating our children has become. One hears a compilation of alleged transgressions: vandalism and violence, rebellious spirits and anarchic ideas, ingratitude and excessive independence. Adults assert that they were different (that is, better!) in their younger days. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51723 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51722 Title: Teacher participation in the management of schools Authors: Galea Scannura, Charles Abstract: Participation - the idea of having a share in management and in profits - could be considered as the new concept to be applied in the Maltese Economy as far as the 'employed' are concerned, in the 1980s. The principle, when it comes to Education, may be examined in terms of various sectors - students, parents, teachers, private schools, local state schools, national policy and government. It is therefore pertinent to note what has been said so far as regards Teacher Participation. It has been claimed that it "is not incompatible with a sound educational policy". Far back in 1969, CASE (England) declared that teachers should have a right to be involved at all levels of planning and consultation on matters of vital educational concern. For the teacher's role in education is changing: he cannot act in an authoritarian atmosphere. He has to be accepted as the social operator who collects ideas, hypotheses and changes and makes them known to the masses. He is an animator and promoter of ideas, necessities and cultural and social fermentations. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51722 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51721 Title: Perception, cognitive development and humour in the child Authors: Camilleri, Mario Abstract: Like beauty, humour is in the eye of the beholder, having no objective existence, being purely a product of the act of perception) In other words, humour results not from the concrete object which impinges physically upon the organism, but from the complex process which organizes and places the sensory-data within a frame of reference, thus bestowing meaning on it. A "humour stimulus" (e.g. a "joke") - like any other stimulus - is intrinsically meaningless, and only acquires meaning after the perceptual process has successfully managed to decipher a pattern in the stimulus which can be matched with pre-existing schemata in the mind. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51721 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51720 Title: Charles Vere and his controversial attempts to open a school in Malta Authors: Debono, Joe Abstract: The long and chequered history of Maltese education provides a most versatile and litigious character: Charles Vere, a British resident on the Island from the mid-1820's to the mid-1830's. He made his first impact on the local scene in 1824, when he opened what must be rated as Malta's first department-store at No. 256, Strada Reale - now Republic Street - Valletta. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51720 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z