EAN: 9783034301428

THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFANT EDUCATION IN IRELAND ...

Winner of the Kevin Brehony Book Prize  awarded by the History of Education Society (UK) This
is the first published historical analysis of the development of infant education in Ireland.
It spans the period from the opening of the Model Infant School in Marlborough Street  Dublin 
in 1838 to the introduction of the child-centred curriculum for infant classes in 1948. A study
of early childhood education in Ireland in this period provides an understanding of how the
child  childhood and the early years of school were viewed by society. Child-centredness had
become a feature of educational practice in Europe in the early eighteenth century and was
developed further by Rousseau  Pestalozzi and Froebel. How it manifested itself in schools in
Ireland is critically explored in the book through an examination of key reports  as well as
through new original primary source material not previously in the public domain. The
curricular content  pedagogical approaches and organisation of infant schooling reveal much
about the attitudes of those in authority to the youngest children and their educational needs.
Interviews with kindergarten advisors  national (primary) school inspectors  lecturers on early
childhood education  teachers of infants  and adults who were students in the early decades of
the twentieth century provide further insights and enhance our understanding of policies and
practices of the time.

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