User:Carmel Borg

Carmel Borg (born 1963) is Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies and Sociology of Education at the Department of Education Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Malta. He is former Dean of the Faculty of Education.

Prof Borg teaches in the areas of Curriculum Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Sociology of Education, Parental Involvement in Education, Adult Education and Community Development. He has researched and published extensively in the aforementioned areas.

Prof. Borg is Secretary General of the Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education (MESCE). As Secretary General, he has established MESCE as one of the most dynamic comparative education societies within the World Council of Comparative Education Societies. He has co-convened two international conferences on behalf of MESCE – the 2008 International MESCE Conference in Malta and the 2009 International MESCE Conference in Morocco. He will also co-convene the 2011 International MESCE Conference (www.mesce.org).

Prof. Borg has lectured internationally (Berlin, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Milan, Rome, Mainz, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Leicester, among other venues) and is an external expert of the European Commission. He is also involved in several European and international projects, networks and research consortia.

Prof. Borg sits on editorial advisory boards of several international journals and is editor of the Maltese Review of Educational Research (MRER), formerly known as the Maltese Journal of Education Research (JMER).

As a public intellectual, Prof Borg contributes to local newspapers, appears regularly on television programmes and produces his own radio programmes. He is also involved in community projects.

Books

Gramsci and Education (co-edited with J.A. Buttigieg and P. Mayo, Rowman & Littlefield, Maryland, 2002)

Children and Youth at Risk: Narratives of Hope (co-edited with C. Calleja, Agenda, Malta, 2006)

Learning and Social Difference (co-authored with P. Mayo, Paradigm, Boulder CO., 2006)

Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements. A Book of Interviews (with P. Mayo, Peter Lang Publishers, New York, 2007)

Lorenzo Milani, l-Edukazzjoni u l-Ġustizzja Soċjali (co-authored with M. Cardona, Media Centre, Malta, 2008)

Mediterranean Studies in Comparative Education (co-edited with P. Mayo and R.G. Sultana, Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research and MESCE, Malta, 2009)

‘Letter to a Teacher’: Lorenzo Milani’s Contribution to Critical Citizenship (co-authored with M. Cardona and S. Caruana, Agenda, Malta, 2009)

Full list of publications on request (carmel.borg@um.edu.mt)