Full Description
This book outlines the principal features of the Payment by Results policy, first introduced in England in 1862. It draws attention to some of the positive aspects of the system but it also considers the more salient features of a system that preyed heavily on both pupils and teachers. Inspectors were used as agents of its implementation, resulting in a divergence of views between them and the teachers. Very few regretted its demise in 1900 when it was replaced by the Revised Programme, a much more child-centred curriculum. It was a system of schooling rather than of education, and it served very few admirably.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Prelude
The Germination of Payment by Results
The Adoption of Payment by Results in Irish National Primary Education
The Nuts and Bolts of the Results Programme in the Primary School System in Ireland: 'fix everything in returns'
The Ebbing and Demise of Payment by Results within the National School System
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
