Adult Education University of Malta

Overview

Its central pedagogical orientation is that of breaking away from the magisterial mode of teaching and indulging in dialogical and participatory forms of collective teaching and learning and co-investigation of objects of inquiry. It has both a local and international orientation and draws on the best critical traditions of investigation, enquiry, interaction and dissemination. Adult Education from University of Malta, for the most part, places emphasis on people as co-owners of their own learning, in terms of both self and collectively directed learning. It also focuses on critical engagement with some of the dominant mantras connected with adult education within the all embracing-area of lifelong education/learning.

Career:

Adult Education is an expanding field and has become more so, locally, as a result of Malta’s joining the EU which places lots of emphasis on lifelong learning, a term used interchangeably with the teaching and learning of adults. As a result, access to EU funding in adult education requires a greater preparation of people involved in the area, to provide a good service as well as acquire the right competitive edge to secure this funding. 

The EU LLL Memorandum and the Malta National LLL Strategy place emphasis on education that extends beyond schooling to involve a number of sites of practice such as training sites, prisons, the armed forces, community learning centres, museum education centres, work with and among migrants, community oriented learning in old and new literacies, further education and university continuing education and extension learning. State-sponsored adult education and training has increased exponentially in recent years and so has ngo-isation in adult learning, assisted in both cases by EU funding.