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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/33173| Title: | ‘Bottomless buckets’ : the experience of students in low-streamed classes |
| Other Titles: | Inside/outside schools : towards a critical sociology of education in Malta |
| Authors: | Cachia, Tania |
| Keywords: | Problem children -- Education -- Malta Education and state -- Malta Education -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 1997 |
| Publisher: | Publishers Enterprises Group (PEG) Ltd. |
| Citation: | Cachia, T. (1997). ‘Bottomless buckets’ : the experience of students in low-streamed classes. In R. G. Sultana (Eds.), Inside/outside schools : towards a critical sociology of education in Malta (pp. 165-182). San Gwann: Publishers Enterprises Group (PEG) Ltd. |
| Abstract: | This chapter looks at the experience of lower-streamed students in their final year in a primary state school in Malta. It also considers the teachers' views of streaming, and why it is that they tend to support a practice that has been criticised by several foreign and local educators. Streaming is the Maltese education system's sacred cow: teachers vouch by it, parents want it, industrialists cannot imagine a school set-up without it (Sultana, 1997), and no government dares meddle with it. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/33173 |
| Appears in Collections: | Inside/Outside Schools : towards a critical sociology of education in Malta |
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