Every year, since 2002, the Faculty of Education has organised, in conjunction with the History Teachers’ Association, the Michael Sant Memorial Lecture.
Michael Sant, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education at UM, passed away in 1999. He was a pioneer in the teaching of history for he introduced ‘New History’ teaching pedagogy to his teacher trainees and launched the innovative ‘Source Method’ in Malta which is still practiced to this day.
Michael Sant, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education at UM, passed away in 1999. He was a pioneer in the teaching of history for he introduced ‘New History’ teaching pedagogy to his teacher trainees and launched the innovative ‘Source Method’ in Malta which is still practiced to this day.
Lukas Pericleous, from Cyprus University, was guest speaker at this year's Michael Sant Memorial Lecture. He spoke about empathy in history teaching at the lecture entitled 'My mind to your mind, my thoughts to your thoughts: students' ideas of the troublemaker concept of historical empathy'.
The Michael Sant Memorial Lecture is usually an evening event open to the general public. However this year, the 17th Michael Sant Memorial Lecture, was organised as part of history teachers’ inservice course offered by the Directorate for Learning and Assessment Programmes.
The memorial lecture, held on 10 July, took place at the Mnajdra Visiting Centre by courtesy of Heritage Malta. With an audience of over 70 secondary history teachers, who enthusiastically also participated in the follow-up workshop sessions based on the teaching of empathy in the classroom, this year's was a very successful event.
The memorial lecture, held on 10 July, took place at the Mnajdra Visiting Centre by courtesy of Heritage Malta. With an audience of over 70 secondary history teachers, who enthusiastically also participated in the follow-up workshop sessions based on the teaching of empathy in the classroom, this year's was a very successful event.
Two publications by UM academic staff were launched on this occasion ‘Exploring how history works’ by Prof. Yosanne Vella and ‘Life in Mdina from Punic Times to Today’ by Prof. George Cassar.
