Event: Book Launch for Boys, Early Literacy and Children's Rights in a Postcolonial Context
Date: 29 April 2022
Time: 18:00
Venue: University of Malta, Valletta Campus, Aula Prima
Title: Book Launch for Boys, Early Literacy and Children's Rights in a Postcolonial Context
This book explores boys’ underachievement in literacy in early years education in Malta, using the dual lens of children’s rights and postcolonial theory.
The author, Dr Charmaine Bonello, confronts issues in literacy attainment, early literacy learning and transitions to formal schooling with a case study from Malta. The book includes the voices of young boys who experience formal education from the age of five and adds a fresh perspective to existing literature in this area. Drawing on empirical research, the book traces the impact of foundational ideas of gender and early childhood, and makes practical recommendations to help young children experience socially just literacy education.
This timely text will be highly relevant for researchers, educators and policymakers in the fields of literacy education, early childhood education, postcolonial education and children’s rights.
This Book Launch will be marked with an opening address given by President Emeritus, Her Excellency Dr Marie Louise Coleiro Preca. Professor Valerie Sollars will be chairing the event and the guest speakers are Professor Godfrey Baldacchino, Dr Anna Baldacchino, Dr Rosienne Camilleri, Dr Josephine Deguara, Dr Josephine Milton, Dr Tania Muscat and Ms Maria Saliba.
Vin d’honneur will start around 19:00 in the Gibsoteka Area outside the Aula Prima. If you are interested in attending, please register online.
Dr Charmaine Bonello is a Resident Academic Lecturer Early Childhood and Primary Education within the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta. She is also the co-founder and Vice President of the Early Childhood Development Association of Malta (ECDAM) and one of the Members of the Board of Administrators of The Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society.