| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Front Matter; Title Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Contributing Editors; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART ONE; Education Policy and Practice in the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Chapter One; The Irish Hedge School and Social Change; Chapter Two; Superior Schooling: The Legacy of the Endowed Schools Commissions (1791-1894) to Irish Education; Chapter Three; Thomas Wyse and Non-Denominational Education in Ireland, 1830-1845; PART TWO; Education and Irish Society in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter Four |
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Irish Women and Elementary Education for the Poor in Early Nineteenth-Century IrelandChapter Five; The Museum of Irish Industry and Scientific Education in Mid-Victorian Ireland; Chapter Six; The Nineteenth-Century Governess and Education in Ireland; Chapter Seven; The Presentation Order and National Education in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; PART THREE; Education Policy and Change in the Twentieth Century; Chapter Eight; The Church of Ireland, The State and Education in Irish Language and Irish History, 1920s-1950s; Chapter Nine |
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The Modernisation of the Recruit Training and Education Policies of the Garda Siochana, 1922-1985Chapter Ten; The Implement of the Greater Schools Co-operation Policy and Vocational Education Committees in 1960s Ireland; Chapter Eleven; When Education Was Asked to Compensate for Society: Education for Change and Permanence in Northern Ireland in the 1980s; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This significant study traces the relationship between education and social change in Ireland from the 17th to the 20th century, marking the effects of the successes and failures of educational policy on Irish society. Incisively written by a leading group of contributors, the book is both sweeping and thorough in accounting for the various manifestations of education in Ireland. Educating Ireland measures how the education system altered the times, as well as how it changed with them. Issues, such as the training of the Garda Siochana, are illustrated along with the policing of the education |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2014) |
| Subject |
Education -- Social aspects -- Ireland
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EDUCATION -- Essays.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Reference.
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Education -- Social aspects
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Ireland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Raftery, Deirdre, editor
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Fischer, Karin, editor
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| ISBN |
9780716532460 |
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0716532468 |
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