The First Malta International Forum on Learning
Submissions

The First Malta International Forum on Learning will take place at the Dolmen Resort Hotel, Qawra, Malta, between 25-27th June 2009. This conference is being organised by Let Me Learn (Malta) in partnership with the University of Malta. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity for established scholars, teachers, education administrators, school leaders, policy makers and other stakeholders to present and discuss latest research, applications, and innovations in the field of learning. It will also facilitate national and international networking in the area.

Proposals for presentations are welcomed (see submissions section on the conference website). Plenary and parallel sessions will be run in English.

Please forward any queries or comments to info@forumonlearning.org

Convenors: Prof. Carmel Borg and Mr. Colin Calleja
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Submission of Papers

  •  The organising committee encourages stakeholders in education to submit abstracts on any topic related to learning.  Ideally, abstracts should be grounded in research.
  • Abstracts (not exceeding 300 words) and particulars (name, title, country, affiliation, status and contact details) are to be sent by not later than 1st of April, 2009.

 

  • Appropriate abstracts might include, but not necessarily be confined to:
    • reports of ongoing learning projects;
    • piloted interventions;
    • results from post-graduate research; reports of national, local or international studies on learning;
    • critical reviews of latest pedagogical developments and theories. 
  • The result of the abstract review process will be communicated within three weeks of submission of individual abstract. 

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Mr. Colin Calleja lectures in the area of General Pedagogy with specialization in Differentiated teaching and learning, at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. He is the coordinator of the Programme in Teaching for Diversity and national coordinator of the Let Me Learn Programme. Mr. Calleja is involved in a number of EU projects dealing with Differentiated instruction and life-long learning. Mr. Calleja is currently involved with a non-governmental organization which has just been selected by an EU organisation to monitor racism in Malta. Mr. Calleja will be monitoring the Education component. Mr. Calleja is the author of Differentiating Instruction in the Primary Classroom (2005), he has also co-edited, with Prof. Carmel Borg, Understanding Children and Youth at Risk: Narratives of Hope (2006). Mr. Calleja is also a co-author of a Handbook for teacher trainers entitled Differentiated Teaching Module: Preparing trainee teachers to respond to pupil diversity – Teacher trainees Handbook (2007). Colin Calleja
Prof. Carmel Borg is the former Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. Prof. Borg lectures in Curriculum Studies, Critical Pedagogy and Parental Involvement in Education. He has written, presented and published extensively around the foregoing issues. Prof. Borg consults locally and internationally, and is an external expert for the European Commission (DG Education). Prof. Borg is the founding editor of the Journal of Maltese Education Research and the current editor of the Malta Review of Educational Research. Carmel Borg
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