State Sponsored Adult Literacy Programmes In Malta: A Critical Review  

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Mayo, Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 1-2 (1994), page 31-39.
Fulltext: Vol. 08, no 1 & 2, p 31-39.pdf (689.22KB)

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This paper focuses on state sponsored adult literacy programmes in Malta. Such a focus is appropriate for two reasons. In the first place, state sponsored adult literacy education has a long history in Malta and, therefore, is vast enough as an area of enquiry to warrant a study on its own. Secondly, this is the area wherein I have carried out a substantial part of my adult education work within the Education Department. This area of adult education is examined in relation to a variety of issues. One of these, which is of central importance in the history of education in Malta, is the Language Question. This question remains a recurring one in this microstate in which the Maltese language is seen as the hallmark of a small population's identity.2 At the same time, this is a country which requires a language of international currency for a variety of reasons, not least of which being the consolidation of its status as rentier state.3 Reference in this paper will be made to other issues related to the characteristics of a small nation state, as well as to such other pertinent issues as emigration, colonialism, bureaucratic centralisation and female participation.

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