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To introduce students to the development of education at primary and post-primary levels in Ireland.
To highlight patterns of development, engagement and provision in relation to the various parties involved in provision since the inception of the primary system.
To encourage students to engage with the various philosophical issues pertaining to schooling as a historically and contemporaneously contested territory.
To raise student awareness of recent issues arsing in educational policy in relation to teaching, curriculum and the teaching body.
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Articulate a broad, yet engaged and knowledgeable, understanding of the development of education in Ireland since the inception of the primary system in the nineteenth-century.
Develop and defend rational and well argued positions on educational issues and controversies particularly those pertaining to the positions, roles and responsibilities of interested parties within the educational community.
Articulate a cogent position on the nature of the conflicting and complimentary influences acting on educational provision.
Arrive at an understanding of the relationship between the nature and purposes of education and the wider imperatives and inputs of other agencies.
Develop an understanding of the contemporaneous position of the teaching body in relation to the above.
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The role of historical discourse in educational enquiry
The development of the education system in Ireland
Social, economic, political, pedagogical and religious issues in Education
The nature and purpose of the educational endeavour at primary and post-primary level
The influences and impact of wider social agencies acting upon the above
The position of school children, parents and society generally in relation to provision
The position of teachers and ‘management’ within schools.
The historical role of the churches in education in Ireland
Educational Legislation and Policy
The changing nature of the educational landscape
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Walsh, B. (2007) The Pedagogy of Protest (Oxford, Peter Lang).
Walsh, B. (2006) ‘The Challenge of Change: Secondary Schooling in Ireland 1922-1998’ (History of Education Researcher, No. 78, November 2006).
O’Connor, Sean. (1986) A Troubled Sky: Reflections on the Irish Educational Scene 1957-1968 (Dublin, St. Patrick’s College, Educational Research Centre).
O’Buachalla, Seamas. (1988) Educational Policy in Twentieth Century Ireland (Dublin, Wolfhound Press).
Randles, Eileen. (1975) Post-Primary Education in Ireland 1957-1970 (Dublin, Veritas).
Garvan, Tom (2004) Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so poor for so long? (Dublin, Gill & Macmillan) see chapter Four ‘Cherishing the Children’.
O’Sullivan, Denis. (2005) Cultural Politics and Irish Education since the 1950s: policy paradigms and power. (Dublin, IPA)
Raftery D. & Parkes. S (2006) Minerva to Madonna: the education of women and girls in Ireland (Dublin, IPA)
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