/library/oar/handle/123456789/35699 2025-12-21T04:17:37Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/30246 Title: Symposia Melitensia : Selected proceedings of the Conference ‘Connections’, University of Malta Junior College, 18-20 September 2017 : Number 14 Editors: Scerri, Louis J.; Borg Farrugia, Christine; Borg Marks, Joan Abstract: Issue 14 of Symposia Melitensia covers selected proceedings of the Conference ‘Connections’ organised at the University of Malta Junior College between 18-20 September 2017 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/30245 Title: Maltese primary classrooms : uncharted territory : a blueprint for classroom observation Authors: Peresso, Randolph Abstract: Maltese primary classrooms are by and large uncharted territory. Very few Maltese researchers have taken the plunge to enter into primary classrooms, observe, and analyse the teaching that occurs there. Assuming that this lacuna is not due to a lack of interest in the subject matter, but rather to the methodological challenges such studies involve, this paper proposes a tried and tested framework for pedagology – the study of pedagogy. This framework was developed by Robin Alexander for his seminal study Culture and Pedagogy. It seeks to analyse: i) The form of the lesson; ii) The frame of lesson through the analysis of space, pupil organization, time, curriculum, routine, rule, and ritual; and iii) The act of the lesson through the analysis of tasks and activities given together with that of interactions and judgements made. Each component of this model is explained in some detail and ways how data can be presented is proposed. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/30244 Title: What is a speculative bubble? Authors: Sanso, Gloria Abstract: According to complexity economics, a speculative bubble is a paradigmatic case of emergence which forms from individual behaviour. In order to provide a more detailed ontological investigation of this ‘lower level’, this paper aims to understand what a transaction is and how people actualize their financial choices. Given that selling and buying operations may involve just machines, it is argued that collective intentionality, at least in John Searle’s version, is not successful. It would seem, therefore, that the pivotal role is played by documents. The paper focuses mostly on the documents’ capacity to anchor quasi-abstract entities to reality and to attribute social and economic properties, such as property having a certain value. The latter is clearly involved in the emergence of a bubble. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/30243 Title: Immagini dell'eloquenza classica attraverso le figure emblematiche di Demostene, Pericle, Eschine, e Cicerone Authors: Zammit, Stefano Abstract: Questo studio rappresenta una sorta di viaggio nella genesi e nell’evoluzione dell’eloquenza classica a partire dai principali oratori greci quali fondamentali artefici della retorica, seguiti dagli oratori romani e in particolare dalla straordinaria figura dell’oratore latino Marco Tullio Cicerone. In seguito all’analisi degli albori dell’oratoria classica, il saggio si occupa di una delle tappe più significative della storia della retorica, quella dell’unione tra la filosofia e l’eloquenza. Dopodiché ci si sofferma sui maggiori esponenti dell’eloquenza e più specificamente sulle loro particolari caratteristiche. Apre la carrellata colui che è considerato uno dei più grandi oratori di tutti i tempi nonché uno dei padri dell’eloquenza moderna. Si tratta dell’ateniese Demostene, considerato all’epoca di Cicerone come il rètore per eccellenza. Altre fondamentali fasi della presente esplorazione inquadrano il notevole apporto di oratori quali Pericle ed Eschine. Infine, si focalizza l’attenzione sull’eccezionale e prestigioso contributo di Cicerone, mirabile sintesi di un’eloquenza particolarmente efficace e praticamente scevra della benché minima imperfezione. L’aspetto più interessante di questo saggio è che la notevole lezione di tali artefici dell’oratoria classica non solo non è caduta nel dimenticatoio, ma ci è stata tramandata fino ai nostri tempi. In effetti, l’eloquenza più moderna, oggi più comunemente nota con l’appellativo di Public Speaking, deve necessariamente e inevitabilmente fare i conti con la retorica classica. In altri termini, tale si rivelò l’efficacia dell’eloquenza classica che oggigiorno, qualsiasi genere di oratoria – politica, religiosa o di altro genere ancora – non può prescindere dal fondamentale insegnamento dei massimi rappresentanti della comunicazione ellenistica e romana. = The following study analyzes in retrospect the genesis as well as the evolution of classical eloquence starting from the main Greek orators as fathers of rhetoric, followed by Roman orators and in particular by the remarkable figure of Marcus Tullius Cicero. After a detailed analysis of the dawn of classical oratory, the paper deals with one of the most significant stages of the history of rhetoric, namely, the correlation between philosophy and eloquence. Afterwards, the study focuses on the major exponents of eloquence and more specifically on their particular characteristics. Such an overview begins with the Athenian Demosthenes, considered as one of the greatest orators of all times as well as one of the forefathers of modern eloquence and reputed, during the age of Cicero, to be the rhetorician par excellence. Other important masters of classical eloquence included in this analysis are Pericles, a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age, and Aeschines, a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators. Finally the study analyzes the outstanding and prestigious contribution by Cicero, whose eloquence constitutes a notable synthesis of the best possible model of persuasive communication. The most interesting aspect of this research is that the remarkable example by the outstanding masters of classical eloquence is, nowadays, still very much held in high esteem. As a matter of fact, modern eloquence, better known as Public speaking, continues to regard classical rhetoric as a basic point of reference. In other words, classical eloquence was so much effective to the extent that today, all kinds of oratory, either political or religious or of any other genre, cannot put aside the fundamental teachings of the major exponents of Hellenistic and Roman oratory. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z