Remedial education in Malta, Year IV-Year VI : a case study

Abstract

This work deals with remedial education in Malta - its past and present - and makes suggestions for its further development. The work commences with a clarification of the concept of remedial education as viewed by local and foreign authorities. Chapter Two then gives a detailed account of the development of remedial education in Malta since its initiation. An important landmark - a survey on children requiring remedial education - is reported and analysed in Chapter Three. Chapter Pour presents an analysis of the questionnaires answered by 30 heads of Primary 'B' Schools in Malta and Gozo. The aim of this questionnaire was to gauge their views on remedial education while acquiring supplementary information on the present situation. These opinions are supported by the views of a number of teachers in charge of children with learning difficulties in the ordinary school. Research and attempts at providing remedial education abroad are outlined in Chapter Five, the last section of which offers recommendations for the development of remedial education within the Maltese context.