Understanding Neurodiverse Young Learners: Supporting Young Children with ADHD in Early Childhood Settings

Understanding Neurodiverse Young Learners: Supporting Young Children with ADHD in Early Childhood Settings

Dr Jonathan Borg is an academic lecturer at the Department for Inclusion and Access to Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Malta. After graduating as a Primary School teacher, he pursued a Master’s in Responding to Student Diversity and was awarded a PhD in Inclusive Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr Borg’s teaching and research focus on inclusion, strategies for inclusive education, early intervention, person-centred planning, self-determination, sexual and gender diversity in education, narrative research, and specifically creative non-fiction methodologies.

Dr Borg coordinates the BA (Hons) in Facilitating Inclusive Education, which prepares students to foster and promote inclusive learning environment. This course covers core inclusive education principles, and the implementation of inclusive education policy. Dr Borg organises professional development initiatives in schools and educational centres.

Dr Borg supervises a number of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations, contributes to the training of learning support educators and pre-service teachers and participates in national and international research projects. His recent publications include Leading for Inclusion: The Role of the Head of Department for Inclusion in Middle and Secondary State Schools in Malta (2024), Unlocking the Power of Collaborative Learning in Secondary Schools: A Transnational Comparative Analysis Between Italy and Malta (2023), and The Narratives of Gay Male Teachers in Contemporary Catholic Malta, in Mapping the Rainbow: Researching the Diverse Colours of the LBTIQ Community (2020). He has presented research at national and international conferences on inclusive education and is a member of the SEA-EU expert group on Inclusive Teaching and Learning practices.