Secondary Education and Research in Malta: An Overview = Recherche et enseignement secondaire a Malte: Yue d'ensemble.

Autor/in	Wain, Kenneth
Institution	Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France).
Titel	Secondary Education and Research in Malta: An Overview = Recherche et enseignement secondaire a Malte: Yue d'ensemble.
Quelle	(1992), (36 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch; französisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Curriculum Research; Educational Administration; Educational History; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Government School Relationship; Policy Formation; Research Needs; Secondary Education; Student Development; Teacher Role; Vocational Education; Malta + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Research; Curriculumreform; Lehrplan; Forschung; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Politische Betätigung; Forschungsbedarf; Sekundarbereich; Lehrerrolle; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	Secondary education in Malta has gone through extensive reform and counter-reform in recent years. Maltese schooling culture hitherto had been very selective and traditional in its outlook, while implementation policy utterly disregarded both the cultural constraints and the unpreparedness of teachers for radical reform. The result was a steep rise in demand for private schooling. In public secondary schools there arose a tripartite secondary school system of junior lyceums for the best students, area schools for the less advanced, and trade schools. The National Minimum Curriculum sought to liberalize all three levels and shift the balance from vocationalism to broad based education. Malta's educational administration and policy making remain centralized. Secondary education is oriented toward preparing students for examinations. Curricular aims include: (1) heightened intellectual, affective, and physical development; (2) training for the pursuit of knowledge and reason; and (3) initiation into the process of qualification for working life. Maltese education has little research tradition, and educational reforms have not resulted from research. The time is long overdue for drastic revision of the administrative and structural policies of education in Malta. Government policy makers and educators need to work together to do research in response to jointly identified needs. Contains 12 endnotes. (SG)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC