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The Teacher, Literature and the Mediterranean

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Simone Galea

    1. University of Malta, Europe

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  2. Adrian Grima

    1. University of Malta, Europe

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  • Where literature meets teaching, seven studies explore some of the most pressing issues in the largely unchartered territory of the Mediterranean of the 21st century.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Simone Galea, Adrian Grima
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Strasbourg Stop

    • Ivan Callus
    Pages 9-27

  4. Francis Ebejer’s Struggle with Education

    • Marco Galea, Simone Galea
    Pages 29-39

  5. Mediterranean Memoirists

    • Laila Suleiman Dahan
    Pages 41-60

  6. The Italian School as Seen by Teacher Writers

    • Antonietta Censi
    Pages 61-78

  7. This is Why I Started Teaching

    • Anna Marina Mariani
    Pages 79-100

  8. Critical Mediterranean Voices

    • Adrian Grima
    Pages 101-119

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 121-122
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At a time when the Mediterranean has rediscovered its own vitality, seven academics from the fields of education and literature look at how fictions set in the region narrate the role of the teacher from the point of view of the students and from that of the teachers themselves. While an increasingly technocratic approach to the performance of teachers focuses on competences, these often highly subjective narratives tell stories of practitioners who refuse to fit into the mould imposed on them by patriarchy or the educational institutions. The writers dealt with in this volume are aware that teachers cannot be solely defined in terms of what they are expected to do within schools and classrooms. This reductively conceives them as simply needing the skills to teach without having the ability to contextualise their teaching within wider historical, social and cultural realities. With its migration flows and intricate web of social and cultural politics, the Mediterranean of the 21st century is an ideal space for reflections on the role of the teacher in an ever-changing society.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Malta, Europe

    Simone Galea, Adrian Grima

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