Attard primary school : a living example of a grassroots initiated school development strategy

Abstract

Schools have traditionally been considered important socialising agencies within the community, but they have also been regularly criticised for their inability to keep up with the demands made by the same society that they are trying to 'serve'. Years upon years of centralised management, both on a macro and on a micro level, systematically isolated schools from the reality outside their walls. Learning experiences offered in schools have become archaic and alien to the learners' world, and rather than being proactive forces within society, schools tended to become inactive, or at best reactive.