Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description The module aims to facilitate students in considering the development of Irish Education in its historic context with particular emphasis upon the evolution of the Irish language and its place in post-primary schooling. In doing so it contextualises developments concerning schooling, and the place of the language, within the arena of nineteenth-century pedagogic understandings and change; the evolution of the Irish language revival; the work of the Gaelic League and Irish language policy during and after the independence period. In particular, the module examines political understandings of the place of the language in schooling and national life in the post-independence period and assesses the extent to which policy and practice were married in government action and considers other imperatives which entered the discourse, particularly in the post 1960s period. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Describe and be able to analyse the historic evolution of the Irish education system at both primary (pre-independence period) and post-primary levels. 2. Describe and analyse the roles of concerned parties in the evolution of schooling in Ireland prior to independence, in particular, church bodies, government, commissioners of education, language revival movements and teacher bodies. 3. Describe and analyse the evolution of the post-primary system of education in Ireland from 1878 to the modern period. 4. Describe and analyse the factors influencing curriculum developments in the Irish education system with particular reference to the Irish language. 5. Describe and analyse policy developments in the modern era (i.e. post 1965) with particular reference to assessment, changes in the curriculum, management and the place of the Irish and modern languages. 6. Analyse and write intelligently upon any of the above but also upon themes which students may wish to engage with which run parallel to the main module themes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
1The historical development of the Irish education system; the role of government, church bodies and others (colonial and independent) in the formation of education structures, curriculum, ethos and practice; education in independent Ireland including the role of nationalism, economics, vocationalism, state provision, curricular change, education policy, legislation and the Irish language. Learning Activities: Reading, attendance at lectures, engaging with online resources provided on Loop. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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