This article assesses the role of children in perpetuating the chain of memory of the faiths in E... more This article assesses the role of children in perpetuating the chain of memory of the faiths in Europe. Drawing on indepth interviews with parents/guardians and fifty-two children on the religious socialization of Roman Catholic, Muslim, and non-religious children in Malta, it argues that Roman Catholic children are now the bearers of “vicarious religion” of communities that have become “unchurched,” while Muslim children steady the “precarious” memory of Islam in Europe. The article explores how children propel adults’ religious practices, keeping parents and grandparents connected to the faiths, churches, and mosques. Given the moral panic regarding voluntary childlessness as a threat to the perpetuation of the faiths, the vital role children play in the chain of religious memory is acknowledged.
... SOCIETY LITERATURE REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Dr Anna Halsall and Pro... more ... SOCIETY LITERATURE REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Dr Anna Halsall and Prof Bert Roebben, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany This paper relates to work in progress. It may be downloaded for personal use only. Page 2. ...
This chapter explores the ways in which, outside the formal religious education (RE) curriculum, ... more This chapter explores the ways in which, outside the formal religious education (RE) curriculum, children are socialized into a religious or philosophical culture. It asks whether the schools’ socialization process respects multiculturalism’s goals of ‘positive difference’, accommodation and substantive equality, or, rather, institutionalizes the assimilation of minimal tolerance (Dobbernack and Modood, 2012). It describes the everyday material and symbolic religious cultures of five Maltese primary schools. These cultures are constituted through the use of specific spaces and places; the times and gestures of formal worship and prayer; visual religious displays and symbols; the sounds of, and calls to, prayer; ritual assemblies and special events; and the embodiment of role-modelling that permeate primary school life, and in which all children, including those who opt out of formal RE, are daily immersed. In this ethnography of religious culture, a semiotic approach is adopted. Actors utilize the multi-modal means of language, sound, touch and movement, and engage with objects, as signifiers of their belief in, or belonging to, a faith (the signified). Together, the signifiers and the signified produce the ‘sign ‘of a religious culture. From a critical realist perspective, it will be argued that while both adults and children may appropriate some signs and reject others to performatively enact specific religious identities, in schools the signs themselves proscribe certain normative enactments and inhibit others.
The Lectures series on Campus Fm 103.7 is a transmission of public lectures, mostly but not exclu... more The Lectures series on Campus Fm 103.7 is a transmission of public lectures, mostly but not exclusively, held at the University of Malta. These include lectures from the Works in Progress Seminar Series, Language Planning and Lights on Theatre Traffic.
I n this article I want to address some of our commonsense assumptions about the education of gir... more I n this article I want to address some of our commonsense assumptions about the education of girls and boys in single-sex and mixed schools. In Malta there has recently been an interest in co-education. People as different as ex-Labour M.P. Ms Carmen Sant (Sodety, 1991), columnist Daphne on Sunday (STOM, 19 May 1991) and others (including the group of Trade School Heads currently engaged in the Trade School Project) have advocated co-education as a possible solution to gender differences in education
... SOCIETY LITERATURE REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Dr Anna Halsall and Pro... more ... SOCIETY LITERATURE REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Dr Anna Halsall and Prof Bert Roebben, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany This paper relates to work in progress. It may be downloaded for personal use only. Page 2. ...
I have read this historical sociology with all the pleasure an adult has returning to much-loved ... more I have read this historical sociology with all the pleasure an adult has returning to much-loved novels of youth. The pleasure does not derive from some post-colonial hang up or nostalgia toward my own ex-colony's education history, so strongly influenced by England ...
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ABSTRACT This article uses the case of Maltese girls and women to examine the relationship betwee... more ABSTRACT This article uses the case of Maltese girls and women to examine the relationship between schooling and the economy. It is clear that not only have education and economic planners sought to strengthen the links between school and work in ...
This article assesses the role of children in perpetuating the chain of memory of the faiths in E... more This article assesses the role of children in perpetuating the chain of memory of the faiths in Europe. Drawing on indepth interviews with parents/guardians and fifty-two children on the religious socialization of Roman Catholic, Muslim, and non-religious children in Malta, it argues that Roman Catholic children are now the bearers of “vicarious religion” of communities that have become “unchurched,” while Muslim children steady the “precarious” memory of Islam in Europe. The article explores how children propel adults’ religious practices, keeping parents and grandparents connected to the faiths, churches, and mosques. Given the moral panic regarding voluntary childlessness as a threat to the perpetuation of the faiths, the vital role children play in the chain of religious memory is acknowledged.
... SOCIETY LITERATURE REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Dr Anna Halsall and Pro... more ... SOCIETY LITERATURE REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Dr Anna Halsall and Prof Bert Roebben, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany This paper relates to work in progress. It may be downloaded for personal use only. Page 2. ...
This chapter explores the ways in which, outside the formal religious education (RE) curriculum, ... more This chapter explores the ways in which, outside the formal religious education (RE) curriculum, children are socialized into a religious or philosophical culture. It asks whether the schools’ socialization process respects multiculturalism’s goals of ‘positive difference’, accommodation and substantive equality, or, rather, institutionalizes the assimilation of minimal tolerance (Dobbernack and Modood, 2012). It describes the everyday material and symbolic religious cultures of five Maltese primary schools. These cultures are constituted through the use of specific spaces and places; the times and gestures of formal worship and prayer; visual religious displays and symbols; the sounds of, and calls to, prayer; ritual assemblies and special events; and the embodiment of role-modelling that permeate primary school life, and in which all children, including those who opt out of formal RE, are daily immersed. In this ethnography of religious culture, a semiotic approach is adopted. Actors utilize the multi-modal means of language, sound, touch and movement, and engage with objects, as signifiers of their belief in, or belonging to, a faith (the signified). Together, the signifiers and the signified produce the ‘sign ‘of a religious culture. From a critical realist perspective, it will be argued that while both adults and children may appropriate some signs and reject others to performatively enact specific religious identities, in schools the signs themselves proscribe certain normative enactments and inhibit others.
The Lectures series on Campus Fm 103.7 is a transmission of public lectures, mostly but not exclu... more The Lectures series on Campus Fm 103.7 is a transmission of public lectures, mostly but not exclusively, held at the University of Malta. These include lectures from the Works in Progress Seminar Series, Language Planning and Lights on Theatre Traffic.
I n this article I want to address some of our commonsense assumptions about the education of gir... more I n this article I want to address some of our commonsense assumptions about the education of girls and boys in single-sex and mixed schools. In Malta there has recently been an interest in co-education. People as different as ex-Labour M.P. Ms Carmen Sant (Sodety, 1991), columnist Daphne on Sunday (STOM, 19 May 1991) and others (including the group of Trade School Heads currently engaged in the Trade School Project) have advocated co-education as a possible solution to gender differences in education
... SOCIETY LITERATURE REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Dr Anna Halsall and Pro... more ... SOCIETY LITERATURE REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Dr Anna Halsall and Prof Bert Roebben, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany This paper relates to work in progress. It may be downloaded for personal use only. Page 2. ...
I have read this historical sociology with all the pleasure an adult has returning to much-loved ... more I have read this historical sociology with all the pleasure an adult has returning to much-loved novels of youth. The pleasure does not derive from some post-colonial hang up or nostalgia toward my own ex-colony's education history, so strongly influenced by England ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 0954025920040108, Jul 28, 2006
ABSTRACT This article uses the case of Maltese girls and women to examine the relationship betwee... more ABSTRACT This article uses the case of Maltese girls and women to examine the relationship between schooling and the economy. It is clear that not only have education and economic planners sought to strengthen the links between school and work in ...
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