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Boys, Early Literacy and Children’s Rights in a Postcolonial Context: A Case Study from Malta book cover

1st Edition

Boys, Early Literacy and Children’s Rights in a Postcolonial Context A Case Study from Malta

By Charmaine Bonello Copyright 2022
144 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores boys’ underachievement in literacy in early years education in Malta, using the dual lens of children’s rights and postcolonial theory. The author confronts issues in literacy attainment, early literacy learning and transitions to formal schooling with a case study from Malta. The book includes the voices of young boys who experience formal education from the age of five and... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

About the Author

Foreword- Anna & Godfrey Baldacchino

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1

Boys and early literacy in a former British colony: The context and the study

　

Chapter 2

'Rough' or 'prim & proper'? Unpacking popular explanations for the gender gap in literacy attainment in a Maltese early years context

　

Chapter 3

‘I get bored’: Beating boredom through boys’ views on a highly formalised approach to early literacy

　

Chapter 4

'They start to lose the race before they start it’: Re-envisioning education for the under-sevens in Malta

　

Chapter 5

Conclusion

　

Index

　

　

　

　

Biography

Charmaine Bonello is a lecturer in early childhood and primary education at the University of Malta. As a postcolonial female academic, together with her past professional experiences in education, she contributes unique insights and insider gender, literacy and early childhood education perspectives to the decolonisation debate and children’s rights advocacy.

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