International journal of historical learning, teaching and research (Print), May 1, 2013
In February 2013 Malta's new national Curriculum, entitled &a... more In February 2013 Malta's new national Curriculum, entitled 'A New National Framework for All' was launched. It was the end result of almost three years of meetings, debates, discussions, consolations and draft documents. This paper first gives a brief description of the historical background of Curricula in Malta, all of which eventually lead up to the present one, and then goes on to discuss specifically history in Maltese Curricula. Today it is no exaggeration to say that, of all school subjects history is the one which has undergone the most radical transformation as far as its pedagogy is concerned. History teaching in Malta now focuses on the learning of specific history skills and concepts, and analyses and interpretation of primary and secondary sources. However, history does not have a high status in the Maltese educational system and there were clear intentions in the initial stages of the creation of the new curriculum to eliminate the subject. This paper describes the advances in history pedagogy experienced in Malta in the past 20 years and the endeavours of the writer to retain history as a separate academic subject in the new curriculum.
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This is a sensitive issue because St. Paul is reverred as the one who brought the faith to the islands and the Maltese converted to christianity because of this provincial shipwreck. The popular belief is that from the shipwreck in 60 A.C.E. up to the present day there was a continuity of the Christian faith on the islands. This booklet also explores the validity of this claim of continuity by inviting pupils to look at the available sources and to make their own conclusions and interpretations based on the reliability of these sources.
Irrespective of the theme, this booklet is interesting to all history teachers and history learners in any country because understanding the scientific way of how history works is useful in all contexts. While it also offers ideas and ways of using sources in such a way as not to impose judgements in history but to investigate sources and back any historical claims according to the evidence available.
This is a sensitive issue because St. Paul is reverred as the one who brought the faith to the islands and the Maltese converted to christianity because of this provincial shipwreck. The popular belief is that from the shipwreck in 60 A.C.E. up to the present day there was a continuity of the Christian faith on the islands. This booklet also explores the validity of this claim of continuity by inviting pupils to look at the available sources and to make their own conclusions and interpretations based on the reliability of these sources.
Irrespective of the theme, this booklet is interesting to all history teachers and history learners in any country because understanding the scientific way of how history works is useful in all contexts. While it also offers ideas and ways of using sources in such a way as not to impose judgements in history but to investigate sources and back any historical claims according to the evidence available.