Home / National Book Prize / “So We Can Do Our Best.” Riċerka “So We Can Do Our Best.” “So We Can Do Our Best.”: Care in Children’s Relationships with Teachers This volume offers a fresh approach to student-teacher relationships in middle childhood from the perspective of children in primary schools. It explores how children express their learning and emotional needs, as well as their experience of good and less good student-teacher relationships. Their apprehension of care and its reciprocity, of the need for time and proximity in teaching and learning, of the vicariousness of the experience, and crucially, of the place of learning in student-teacher relationships, is authentically evoked through rich verbatim quotations. Children’s accounts answer questions which teachers, parents, professionals and policy-makers ask. In the experience of children, what makes a person a teacher? What is a “good” student-teacher relationship? Can children with poor relationship histories have good relationships with new teachers? How is learning or “doing well” integral to “getting on well”? Ixtri l-ktieb Malta University Press Riċerka 2025 Mary Darmanin Il-Professur Mary Darmanin, B.A. Hons, M.A. (Essex), Ph.D (UWCC), hija professur sħiħ fid-Dipartiment tal-Istudji Edukattivi, fil-Fakultà tal-Edukazzjoni, fl-Università ta’ Malta. Ir-riċerka tagħha tinkludi: il-politika edukattiva; il-ġeneru fl-edukazzjoni u fis-suq tax-xogħol; l-edukazzjoni tal-bniet fl-iskejjel Kattoliċi; il-kulturi simboliċi, reliġjużi u materjali tal-iskejjel; il-multikulturaliżmu u t-(in)tolleranza tad-diversità reliġjuża fi stat Kattoliku; u t-tfal bħala ġarar indiretti tal-fidi. L-aħħar pubblikazzjoni tagħha (2024) hija rendikont qawwi tal-esperjenzi tat-tfal ta’ waħda mill-iktar relazzjonijiet importanti f’ħajjithom. “Li jkollhom relazzjoni tajba” mal-għalliema tħaddan ix-xewqa qawwija tagħhom li jirnexxu fl-istudji, flimkien mat-tama li jiksbu rispett u kura f’din ir-relazzjoni vitali. Il-kontijiet verbatim tat-tfal huma ppreżentati kemm bil-Malti oriġinali kif ukoll bit-traduzzjoni, u jagħmlu dan il-volum dokument uniku ta’ kif tfal ta’ bejn id-9 u l-11-il sena jesprimu ruħhom bil-lingwa tagħhom ta’ kuljum. NEED ANY HELP? GET IN TOUCH contact us