Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: New turns in the history of education in Ireland: from policy to practice, from theory to lived reality 1. The evolving status of elementary teachers in Ireland (1831-1921): from 'feckless and impoverished' to 'respectable' 2. 'Nobody's ideal': Augustine Birrell, William Walsh and the evolution of the Irish Universities Act, 1908 3. Emotional regulation and middle-class Irish education: a case study of nineteenth century Catholic convent schools 4. More sinn'd against than sinning? The intermediate system of schooling in Ireland 1878-1922 5. 'Staying on in national schools': a history of Ireland's secondary tops, 1880-1980 6. Education for the country girls: vocational education in rural Ireland 1930-1960 7. Irish history at school, its transnational nature and its international contexts, 1980s-1990s: convergence and divergence between the Irish state and Northern Ireland
