Kenneth Wain : The Maltese national curriculum : a critical evaluation [book review]

Abstract

There is hardly an area which falls within the experience of so many people and affects their lives to such an extent as schooling does. Because of this, one would be justified to expect that educational reform and innovations would attract the attention and reaction of an overwhelming majority of people. And yet in the space of two years we have seen the publication of three National Minimum Curricula, one for the primary, another for the secondary and a third for the tertiary level, without much of a response on the part of teachers, parents, students, or the community generally. It is this rather disquieting silence over the educational developments of crucial importance that has driven Professor Kenneth Wain to write and publish the monograph under review. It is the first in what promises to be a controversial and timely series of publications, authored by different- educational theorists and under Wain's general editorship, aimed at critically appraising the Maltese educational system and pointing towards alternative practice.