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dc.contributor.authorMayo, Peter-
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-16T14:30:51Z-
dc.date.available2015-02-16T14:30:51Z-
dc.date.issued2013-02-05-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013, Vol.2(1), p. 1-25.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/1457-
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on the recently deceased Maltese socialist leader Dom Mintoff (19162012) and his introduction of a scheme that was intended to change higher education and develop it ostensibly on socialist lines but, in effect, in a manner intended to facilitate the country’s transition from mercantile capitalism to that of productive industrial development. The scheme he introduced, with its immediate socialist echoes but which warrants more careful scrutiny to unveil both its contradictions and real economic purpose, was the Worker-Student scheme, arguably Mintoff’s original, albeit much decried and controversial, contribution to higher education thinking. In this paper, I will take a look at the main issues surrounding the concept of the worker student scheme and the way they were put into practice during the scheme’s almost ten year period of existence (19781987). I shall analyse them in the context of the Malta Labour Party’s then professed socialist politics. What are the contradictions and consistencies regarding what have come to be regarded as key concepts in a socialist politics of education? Resumen Este artículo se centra en el recientemente fallecido dirigente socialista maltés Dom Mintoff (19162012) y su introducción de un esquema que pretende cambiar la educación superior y desarrollarlo ostensiblemente en líneas socialistas pero, de manera que se facilite la transición del país desde un capitalismo mercantil a un desarrollo industrial productivo. El esquema que presentó, con sus inmediatos ecos socialistas pero que garantizaba un mayor cuidado en el escrutinio para desvelar tanto sus contradicciones como el propósito económico real, fue el esquema de trabajadorestudiante, posiblemente original de Mintoff, aunque muy denunciado y controvertido, contribución al pensamiento de la educación superior. En este trabajo, me centraré en las principales cuestiones que rodean el concepto del sistema trabajadorestudiante y la forma en que fueron puestas en práctica durante casi diez años de existencia del esquema(19781987). Voy a analizarlas en el contexto del Partido Laborista de Malta, el cual profesaría política socialista. ¿Cuáles son las contradicciones y consistencias con respecto a lo que han llegado a considerarse como conceptos clave en una política socialista de la educación?en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherHipatia Pressen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_GB
dc.subjectSocialismen_GB
dc.subjectDevelopmenten_GB
dc.subjectCapitalismen_GB
dc.subjectEmploymenten_GB
dc.subjectMintoff, Dom, 1916-2012en_GB
dc.subjectEducation, Higheren_GB
dc.titleHigher education, socialism & industrial development : Dom Mintoff and the ‘Worker - Student Scheme’en_GB
dc.typearticleen_GB
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