Yosanne Vella : is a Professor at the University of Malta and the History and Social Studies co-ordinator of the Faculty of Education. She obtained her first degree B.Ed (Bachelor of Education) from the University of Malta in 1984, her Masters and MPhil degrees from the University of London in 1991 and 1996 respectively and her doctorate from University of the West of England, Bristol in 2002. Her area specialisation is pedagogy of History and she teaches BA, M.T.L./M.Ed student teachers. She was a History teacher for a number of years both in Malta and in England where she taught History at primary, secondary and sixth form level. Prof. Vella is one of the associate editors of the "International Journal of Historical Learning Teaching and Research" published by the University of Exeter. She has written various books, textbooks and academic papers on history teaching, and she is presently one of the editors of Historiana, a Euroclio (the European History Educators Association) online history textbook.
She was one of the Vice-Chairs of the Committee for Education and Culture at the NGOs Conference of the Council of Europe from 2012 to 2014. Her areas of research mainly focus on finding effective history pedagogy that involves children's history thinking and understanding. She is presently the President of Malta's History Teachers' Association and was the Vice- President of Malta's History Society till 2019.
She was recently on Sabbatical leave in Australia where she gave papers to undergraduate and Masters' students as well as to fellow academics on ‘teaching change and continuity in history to secondary school children' and on 'using history teaching to combat Islamophobia'. The presentations were given at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, at Victoria University's Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria and at the Faculty of Education of Newcastle University in New South Wales.
One of the Editors of on going online European History Textbook Historiana managed by Euroclio European History Teachers Association Network 2010 -
CHE _ Civic and History Education Vienna EU Project Assessment, tutorial structures and initial teacher education of trainee students in History and Social Studies and Civics – a comparative study
Vice Chair of Education and Culture Committee of the Council of Europe
Vice President of the Maltese History Teachers Association
