EAN: 9783034307512

PRIMARY EDUCATION IN IRELAND 1897-1990 - THOMAS...

This book critically examines the context  origins  development and implementation of
successive primary school curricula in Ireland between 1897 and 1990. It focuses on three
particular policy changes during the period: the Revised Programme of Instruction introduced in
1900  the curricular provisions implemented following the achievement of independence in the
1920s and the Primary School Curriculum of 1971. These three eras are distinctive by virtue of
their philosophy of education  the content of the curriculum  the methodologies employed and
the concept of the child inherent in the curriculum. The author analyses curricular changes
within the complex web of wider educational and societal factors that influenced their devising
and implementation. In this way  he locates curricular developments within the climate of
thought from which these policies emerged. The philosophy and ideology underpinning successive
curricula are examined  along with the successes and shortcomings of curriculum implementation
in each period. This historical analysis of the evolution of the primary curriculum in Ireland
has much to offer researchers and policymakers in the contemporary context  amid ongoing
curriculum development.

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