Dr Charmaine Bonello is a Lecturer in Early Childhood and Primary Education. Her areas of research interest in Early Childhood Education and Care are Early Literacy, Children’s Rights, Postcolonialism, Quality Interactions, and the Emergent Curriculum. She is co-founder and Vice President of the Early Childhood Development Association of Malta (ECDAM), a member of the Board of Administrators of the Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society and the author of the Routledge book ‘Boys, Early Literacy and Children’s Rights in a Postcolonial Context’ (Bonello, 2022). She was recently appointed as the co-editor of Postcolonial Directions in Education.
Dr Rosienne Camilleri is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Primary Education. Prior to this engagement, she worked in several schools, both as a teacher as well as occupying various managerial positions. Her areas of special interest in lecturing and research include high ability and giftedness, transitions in education, the Emergent Curriculum, as well as teacher and learner identities. She was a member of the working committee for the recently published Early Childhood Education and Care: National Policy Framework for Malta and Gozo (2021).
Dr Josephine Deguara is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Primary Education. She has occupied different roles in researching and working with young children and educators in Early Childhood and Primary Education. She is a member of the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECRA) and the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Early Years Education. Her research interests focus on curriculum philosophy, children’s rights, play and learning, the environment as a pedagogical tool and multimodal meaning-making in early childhood education and care.
Dr Josephine Milton is the Head of Department and Senior Lecturer of Early Childhood and Primary Education. She has worked in Early and Primary Education for over twenty years and has occupied various roles in working with educators and young learners in formal and non-formal organisations. Her research interests focus on teacher education within early childhood and primary education, the use of language in teaching and learning, children’s literature, English language learning, and literacy.
Dr Tania Muscat is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education. She is a language educator with a specialisation in native language (Maltese) and literacy. Her research interests focus on using language as social practice namely the notion of children’s identities as social, discursive, and materialist constructs. Over the years she has been involved in national project/s (One Tablet Per Child), national policy working group/s (Teaching Maltese as a Foreign Language,2019) and small-scale EU funded project.