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School Acts and the Rise of Mass Schooling

Author : Johannes Westberg

Publisher : Springer

Page : 390 pages

File Size : 31,55 MB

Release : 2019-04-10

Category : Education

ISBN : 3030135705

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This book examines school acts in the long nineteenth century, traditionally considered as milestones or landmarks in the process of achieving universal education. Guided by a strong interest in social, cultural, and economic history, the case studies featured in the book rethink the actual value, the impact, and the ostensible purpose of school acts. The thirteen national case studies focus on the manner in which school acts were embedded in their particular historical contexts, offering a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of school acts and the role they played in the rise of mass schooling. Drawing together research from countries across the West, the editors and contributors analyse why these acts were passed, as well as their content and impact. This seminal collection will appeal to students and scholars of school acts and the history of mass schooling. Chapter 9 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com



Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present

Author : Tom O'Donoghue

Publisher : Springer

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 32,15 MB

Release : 2019-08-02

Category : History

ISBN : 3030260216

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This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking communities in Ireland, from 1900 to the present day. While Irish was once the most common language spoken in Ireland, by 1900 the areas in which native speakers of Irish were located contracted to such an extent that they became clearly identifiable from the majority English-speaking parts. In the mid-1920s, the new Irish Free State outlined the broad parameters of the boundaries of these areas under the title of ‘the Gaeltacht’. This book is concerned with the schooling of children there. The Irish Free State, from its establishment in 1922, eulogized the people of the Gaeltacht, maintaining they were pious, heroic and holders of the characteristics of an invented ancient Irish race. Simultaneously, successive governments did very little to try to regenerate the Gaeltacht or to ensure Gaeltacht children would enjoy equality of education opportunity. Furthermore, children in the Gaeltacht had to follow the same primary school curriculum as was prescribed for the majority English speaking population. The central theme elaborated on throughout the book is that this schooling was one of a number of forces that served to maintain the people of the Gaeltacht in a marginalized position in Irish society.



Schools and Schooling, 1650-2000

Author : James Kelly

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 39,52 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Education, Secondary

ISBN : 9781846826283

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Focusing on the history of education in Ireland and Europe from the seventeenth century to the present, and written by scholars from a number of disciplines, this collection pursues new areas of inquiry and offers new perspectives on familiar topics. These include an investigation of the emergence of educational print prior to the establishment of the national-school system; the national-school system and the Irish language; the educational formation of the revolutionary generation; the impact of the introduction in Ireland of 'free' second-level education in the 1960s; elite transnational education in the nineteenth century; school architecture; and the experiences of second-level education in the twentieth century as revealed through the life histories of pupils. This volume also includes an extended introduction that locates the historiography of the history of education in Ireland in its international context. These are the proceedings of the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures series, delivered at St Patrick's College, DCU, in 2015. Contents include: James Kelly and Susan Hegarty (DCU), Introduction: writing the history of Irish education; James Kelly (DCU), Educational print and the emergence of mass education in Ireland, c.1650- c.1830; Nicholas Wolf (NYU), The national-school system and the Irish language in the nineteenth century; Ciaran O'Neill (TCD), Education, cosmopolitan cultural capital and European elites in the nineteenth century; David Fitzpatrick (TCD), Knowledge, belief and the Irish revolution: the impact of schooling; Catherine Burke (Cambridge U), Poetry, materialities and montage: towards new histories of twentieth-century school architecture; Judith Harford (UCD) and Tom O'Donoghue (U of Western Australia), Exploring the experience of secondary-school education in Ireland prior to the introduction of 'free' second-level education in 1967; and Audrey Bryan (DCU), (In)equality of opportunity and educational reform in Ireland in the 1960s. [Subject: History of Education, Irish Studies, Pedagogy, Archives & Records]







In History and Education, from the Munster Blackwater to the Indian Ocean

Author : Tom O’Donoghue

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 38,96 MB

Release : 2021-09-22

Category : History

ISBN : 152757511X

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In this auto-ethnography, which is a contribution to a form of writing only recently adopted by historians, the author provides an exposition of how, since 1957, he has been located in education currents flowing through various exotic lands. He addresses how, in participating in that flow, he has been influenced by historical events in which he participated, along with broader societal events reaching back over 150 years. As such, this book is illuminative on education developments in education in Ireland and internationally over the last 70 years in relation to a longer time-scale. It commences with an account of the author’s early life and schooling in County Waterford, Ireland, addresses his undergraduate years in London and Limerick, and reflects on 13 years of school teaching and studying for postgraduate degrees at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. An account of the author’s life and academic work in Papua New Guinea, Australia, Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Malaysia then follows.



Piety and Privilege

Author : Tom O'Donoghue

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 11,31 MB

Release : 2022-01-13

Category : Education

ISBN : 0192843168

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For centuries, the Catholic Church around the world insisted it had a right to provide and organize its own schools. It decreed also that while nation states could lay down standards for secular curricula, pedagogy, and accommodation, Catholic parents should send their children to Catholic schools and be able to do so without suffering undue financial disadvantage. Thus, from the Pope down, the Church expressed deep opposition to increasing state intervention in schooling, especially during the nineteenth century. By the end of the 1920s however, it was satisfied with the school system in only a small number of countries. Ireland was one of those. There, the majority of primary and secondary schools were Catholic schools. The State left their management in the hands of clerics while simultaneously accepting financial responsibility for maintenance and teachers' salaries. During the period 1922-1967, the Church, unhindered by the State, promoted within the schools' practices aimed at 'the salvation of souls' and at the reproduction of a loyal middle class and clerics. The State supported that arrangement with the Church also acting on its behalf in aiming to produce a literate and numerate citizenry, in pursuing nation building, and in ensuring the preparation of an adequate number of secondary school graduates to address the needs of the public service and the professions. All of that took place at a financial cost much lower than the provision of a totally State-funded system of schooling would have entailed. Piety and Privilege seeks to understand the dynamic between Church and State through the lens of the twentieth century Irish education system.



New Turns in the History of Education in Ireland

Author : Deirdre Raftery

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 185 pages

File Size : 10,98 MB

Release : 2023-06-27

Category : Education

ISBN : 1000896803

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The chapters in this book offer a range of impressive new studies on the history of education in Ireland, based on detailed research and drawing on important sources. This book also serves to show the healthy state of the history of education in Ireland. In particular, the book also seeks to understand how both teachers and pupils in Ireland experienced education, and how they ‘received’ education policies and education change. The lived reality of education is woven through the chapters in this book, while the impact of policy on education practice is illuminated many times, and with great clarity. This book is a very important contribution not only to the history of education, but also more widely to social history, women’s history, church history and political history. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal History of Education.