/library/oar/handle/123456789/54447 Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:56:25 GMT 2025-11-04T07:56:25Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/54659 Title: School development planning Abstract: The Education Division, while retaining certain powers for itself, is seeking to locate more and more decision-making at the school level. Development of decentralised school management, with the school taking increasing responsibility for the quality of the education it offers, depends on the school ability to be proactive rather than reactive. This can begin to happen if a clear vision is set down and effective means are put forward to achieve that vision. Research has shown that the only way of achieving this is to engage in a meaningful process of school development planning. Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/54659 1998-04-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/54658 Title: Attard primary school : a living example of a grassroots initiated school development strategy Abstract: Schools have traditionally been considered important socialising agencies within the community, but they have also been regularly criticised for their inability to keep up with the demands made by the same society that they are trying to 'serve'. Years upon years of centralised management, both on a macro and on a micro level, systematically isolated schools from the reality outside their walls. Learning experiences offered in schools have become archaic and alien to the learners' world, and rather than being proactive forces within society, schools tended to become inactive, or at best reactive. Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/54658 1998-04-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/54657 Title: Drama in science education Abstract: Drama can be used to expand the awareness of students to enable them to look at reality through fantasy, to see below the surface of actions to their meanings. Drama helps students to face challenges and crisis in the imagination before they find themselves overwhelmed by them in real life. Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/54657 1998-04-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/54656 Title: The Synergy project for primary schools Abstract: The Cambridge International Dictionary of English defines the word "synergy" as the combined power of a group of things when they are working together which is greater than the total power achieved by each working separately. This was precisely the intended effect of the bringing together of a group of thirteen people including an assistant director, three Education Officers, one subject Coordinator and eight peripatetic teachers from the Art, Music, Drama and Complementary Educaation sections of the Curriculum Department. These officers designed and piloted a project intended to present to teachers of Year Two classes a gamut of theme-related teaching strategies that could appeal to children of different abilities and personalities. Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/54656 1998-04-01T00:00:00Z