Tom O’donoghue
Biographic Data
| ID | 4449437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom O’donoghue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | O’donoghue |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONOGHUE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3760-6869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“An Ireland of Brave, Manly Boys, an Ireland of Pure, Modest Girls 1 ”
This article examines how the Catholic Church, working hand in glove with the Irish State, used the education system in order to regulate Irish sexuality in the early decades of Irish independence. Through an analysis of a range of primary sources, interwoven with oral testimony, it argues that the dominance exercised by the Catholic Church in the organisational culture of schools, its control over the training of teachers and its suppression of …
Soil policy principles and a policymaking framework using the soil security concept
There is a growing demand for more soil-centric policies to ensure sustainable land management and soil security. The concept of soil security enhances our understanding of soil multifunctionality as a comprehensive framework for soil protection. Utilising the soil security concept in policymaking can substantially improve the consistency and harmonisation of regional and global policies related to soil security. This paper reviews the fundamenta…
Transnational Knowledge Circulation and the Closing of Minds to Progressive Education Influences on Schooling in the First Decade of Independence in Ireland
For decades, transnational knowledge circulation in relation to schooling in Ireland has been a neglected area of study among historians. This paper provides new insights through a transnational lens on primary, secondary, and vocational curriculum developments in the first decade following the advent of national independence in the country in 1922. During this period, key policy-makers largely rejected progressive educational ideas circulating i…
Irish Studies in the second-level school curriculum in Ireland 1973–1977
This paper details the background to proposals of the Irish Department of Education in 1974 to introduce a new school subject entitled “Irish Studies” to complement rather than replace the long-standing Irish language and literature courses that the authorities of all post-primary schools had to ensure were taught from 1922. From studying both areas, it was argued, students would develop a more inclusive notion of Irish identity than had hitherto…
Mixed methods or mixed up
This paper is a critical exposition on three major issues related to ‘interpretive research conducted by researchers who claim they engaged in mixed methods’ research. First, to provide context, we demonstrate that the term ‘mixed’ is inappropriate for the research practices usually adopted by its exponents. Secondly, we argue, expositions in textbooks, handbooks, and journal articles are inaccurate when referring regularly to engagement in ‘mixe…
Transnational knowledge circulation and the Commission on Manual and Practical Instruction in Ireland, 1896–98
Leading schools in the face of great adversity
The study of disadvantages in education at all levels in Ireland is a well-researched field (Doyle and Keane 2019; Fleming and Harford 2021; Kellaghan 1995; Skerritt 2017; Tormey 2010). A variety of research approaches have been used by those involved in the endeavour to provide a range of valuable associated insights. We offer this paper at a time when other approaches yet again are called for as Ireland, like many other European countries, is h…
Breaking the mould
Curriculum has become a core element of universities' competitive positioning, internationally and nationally. This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of policy processes and outcomes associated with 'radical' university curriculum reforms that resulted in divergence from institutions' own historical patterns and national conventions and traditions. The empirical investigations draw on a policy trajectory conceptual framework and focus on how…
Is conducting interpretive studies within mixed methods research projects justified? Methinks not
My principal concern in this paper is with matters associated with interpretive studies conducted as part of research projects deemed by their authors to be of a mixed-methods type. The stress throughout is on the importance when conducting an interpretive study as part of a research project where the plan is to also conduct a quantitative study, that researchers should, from the outset, make explicit how their selected research techniques can ad…
Piety and Privilege
During the period 1922–1967 the Catholic Church in Ireland opposed any notion of joint responsibility between laity and clergy for secondary school education. The State also permitted the Church to pursue its major interest in education in secondary schools. Unhindered, the Church thus was able to promote within the schools sets of practices aimed at ‘the salvation of souls’ and at the reproduction of a loyal middle class along with priests, brot…
The historiography of female religious teachers and schooling in Ireland
From the mid-1960s, the teaching force in Catholic schools in Ireland that for so long had been composed primarily of members of religious orders began to change as a large number returned to the secular world and recruitment levels dropped rapidly. Concurrently there was an outpouring of order-focused hagiographic works. During the 1980s, a range of related publications by professional historians also appeared. These included books by a group of…
Exploring the potential of cultural historical activity theory for understanding change in education
This paper reports a research project undertaken whose aim was to explore the possibility of using a particular theoretical framework for engaging in preliminary studies aimed at analysing specific historical instances of change in education. The change that was the focus of the investigation was a new school established by the Sisters of Mercy in Ennis, County Clare (Ireland), to replace an original school built in 1865. This was no ‘ordinary sc…
Challenging the dominant Church hegemony in times of risk and promise
Historically, patriarchy has been as dominant in education in Ireland as elsewhere. In the Irish context, it was promoted through the male-dominated Catholic Church, which controlled either directly or indirectly the vast majority of education institutions in the country. This dominant hegemony was most powerful during the period post-Independence, achieved in 1922, and up until the 1960s. By the 1960s, however, Irish society had begun a process …
Investigating the potential of cultural-historical activity theory for studying specific transitions in the history of education
In recent years, and particularly with the emergence of cultural history, historians of education have begun to adopt a wide variety of theoretical approaches to their scholarship. Notwithstanding this, cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) remains underutilised in the field of history of education, despite being employed widely in other domains of education research. This paper illustrates the way in which CHAT offers a valuable framework f…
Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present
Primary School Leadership in Cambodia
Primary School Leadership in Cambodia: Context-Bound Teaching and Leading , Primary School Leadership in Cambodia: Context-Bound Teaching and Leading , کتابخانه های دانشگاه کردستان
Educational Leadership and Context
The amount of empirical research on leadership of educational organisations, and especially of schools, which has stressed the importance of being sensitive to context, is not great. This paper seeks to highlight the challenge presented by this situation. First, context is defined. Second, attention is drawn to what can be learned in the area of school leadership from the emphasis in other bodies of scholarship within the broad field of education…
Secondary School Education in Ireland
History of education research in Australia
The history of education as a distinct field has been the focus of study, research and writing in Australia for over a century. It achieved maturity with the establishment of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society in 1970 and the subsequent establishment of the Society’s journal, History of Education Review. Since then, Australian scholars have been major contributors to the field, with certain individuals being key players o…
Identity dystopias, empire framing and theoretical hegemonies
This article explores the connections between official contemporary identity formation and colonial pasts. Using the case studies of India and Ireland the article explores how different traditions of theorisation are powerful in these formations. India and Ireland were two colonial domains that had many linkages outside the ambit of the British. These linkages are made sense of using methodological approaches like those deployed by Dick Selleck a…
An analysis of recruitment literature used by orders of Catholic religious teaching brothers in Australia, 1930 to 1960
The general focus of this paper is on religious teaching brothers, a very much neglected group within the body of historical scholarship on Catholic education generally. Notwithstanding the existence of an extensive body of literature of a hagiographic nature – much of it commissioned by male religious orders – as well as a small number of academic theses, brothers occupy a field wide open for research on many fronts, internationally and using a …
Catholic Teaching Brothers
O'Donoghue's book, which is written as a traditional historical narrative, while also utilizing a comparative approach, is concerned with the life of Catholic religious teaching brothers across the En
Contesting the Limond thesis on British influence in Irish education since 1922
This paper is a response to David Limond's exposition, “[An] historical culture ... rapidly, universally, and thoroughly restored”? British influence on Irish education since 1922', which appeared in Comparative Education, Vol. 46, No. 4, November 2010, pp. 449–462. Limond's overall thesis is that ‘a post-colonial overhang affects Irish policy-makers and bureaucrats in their educational policies and practices’. This paper contests three main aspe…
Continuity and change in the perspectives of women religious in Ireland on themselves both as religious and as teachers in the years immediately prior to, and following, the Second Vatican Council (19…
A general lack of scholarly works on various aspects of the history of the lives of female teaching religious has recently been highlighted by Hellinckx, Depaepe and Simon. This paper, which reports a preliminary study, is offered as one contribution to addressing the deficit identified. The hope is that it will provoke further scholarship in the field. It is based on an oral history project on the perspectives of female religious in Ireland on t…
Colonialism, education and social change in the British Empire
This paper focuses on the history of relations between colonialism, schooling and social change in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Ireland, countries that were once part of the British Empire. It indicates that responses to schooling ranged from acceptance and tolerance, to modification and rejection, depending on the country, the issue, and the historical period. There were also differences in the historical connections in schooling between Brit…
Educational Leadership and Context
The amount of empirical research on leadership of educational organisations, and especially of schools, which has stressed the importance of being sensitive to context, is not great. This paper seeks to highlight the challenge presented by this situation. First, context is defined. Second, attention is drawn to what can be learned in the area of school leadership from the emphasis in other bodies of scholarship within the broad field of education…
Parental Involvement in Schooling
(1996). Parental Involvement in Schooling: an emerging research agenda. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 5-20
Improving the Quality of Primary School Teacher Education in Papua New Guinea
Continuity and change in the perspectives of women religious in Ireland on themselves both as religious and as teachers in the years immediately prior to, and following, the Second Vatican Council (19…
A general lack of scholarly works on various aspects of the history of the lives of female teaching religious has recently been highlighted by Hellinckx, Depaepe and Simon. This paper, which reports a preliminary study, is offered as one contribution to addressing the deficit identified. The hope is that it will provoke further scholarship in the field. It is based on an oral history project on the perspectives of female religious in Ireland on t…
How teachers manage their work in inclusive classrooms
Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present
Women literacy income generation
Piety and Privilege
During the period 1922–1967 the Catholic Church in Ireland opposed any notion of joint responsibility between laity and clergy for secondary school education. The State also permitted the Church to pursue its major interest in education in secondary schools. Unhindered, the Church thus was able to promote within the schools sets of practices aimed at ‘the salvation of souls’ and at the reproduction of a loyal middle class along with priests, brot…
Contesting the Limond thesis on British influence in Irish education since 1922
This paper is a response to David Limond's exposition, “[An] historical culture ... rapidly, universally, and thoroughly restored”? British influence on Irish education since 1922', which appeared in Comparative Education, Vol. 46, No. 4, November 2010, pp. 449–462. Limond's overall thesis is that ‘a post-colonial overhang affects Irish policy-makers and bureaucrats in their educational policies and practices’. This paper contests three main aspe…
Colonialism, education and social change in the British Empire
This paper focuses on the history of relations between colonialism, schooling and social change in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Ireland, countries that were once part of the British Empire. It indicates that responses to schooling ranged from acceptance and tolerance, to modification and rejection, depending on the country, the issue, and the historical period. There were also differences in the historical connections in schooling between Brit…
Breaking the mould
Curriculum has become a core element of universities' competitive positioning, internationally and nationally. This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of policy processes and outcomes associated with 'radical' university curriculum reforms that resulted in divergence from institutions' own historical patterns and national conventions and traditions. The empirical investigations draw on a policy trajectory conceptual framework and focus on how…
God's antipodean teaching force
The Rhetoric and the Reality of the Promotion of Reflection During Practice Teaching
Cet article rapporte une etude faite en Australie evaluant l'introduction de la reflexivite dans les programmes de formation des maitres. L'A. remarque que meme si tous les textes officiels parlent de l'importance de la reflexivite, on n'y trouve aucune veritable definition de ce concept. La rhetorique n'a pas ete suivie de pratique. C'est le role des formateurs d'encourager la reflexivite chez les futurs professeurs : reflexivite sur les actions…
The need for educational reform and the role of teacher training
The Sacred Heart Mission and Education in Papua 1885-1942
The Sacred Heart Mission and Education in Papua 1885–1942
L'activite de la mission du Sacre Coeur a Papua (partie Sud de l'ile de Nouvelle Guinee) s'inscrivit, de l'arrivee des premiers missionnaires au declenchement de la Guerre du Pacifique, dans la lignee de celle instauree par les missions protestantes. Le but principal des missions ayant ete l'evangelisation du peuple, les ecoles apporterent une connaissance rudimentaire de la foi chretienne et de la langue vernaculaire. Cependant, la mission du Sa…
Sport, recreation and physical education
(1986). Sport, recreation and physical education: the evolution of a national policy of regeneration in Eire, 1926–48. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 216-233
Sport, recreation and physical education
(1986). Sport, recreation and physical education: the evolution of a national policy of regeneration in Eire, 1926–48. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 216-233
The Roman Catholic Ethos of Irish Secondary Schools, 1924‐62, and Its Implications for Teaching and School Organization
Improving the Quality of Primary School Teacher Education in Papua New Guinea
Community development and the primary school teacher in the developing world
The Sacred Heart Mission and Education in Papua 1885-1942
The Sacred Heart Mission and Education in Papua 1885–1942
L'activite de la mission du Sacre Coeur a Papua (partie Sud de l'ile de Nouvelle Guinee) s'inscrivit, de l'arrivee des premiers missionnaires au declenchement de la Guerre du Pacifique, dans la lignee de celle instauree par les missions protestantes. Le but principal des missions ayant ete l'evangelisation du peuple, les ecoles apporterent une connaissance rudimentaire de la foi chretienne et de la langue vernaculaire. Cependant, la mission du Sa…
The need for educational reform and the role of teacher training
Bilingual education at the beginning of the twentieth century
With the great interest in recent years in bilingual education and reporting of associated innovations and research in the academic literature, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the field is one with a rich and diverse history. This paper is offered as one contribution which might help to draw attention to this fact. It does so by considering a particular innovation in bilingual education in the first twenty years of the twentieth century…
Women and literacy in India
Women literacy income generation
Literacy in Nepal
Parental Involvement in Schooling
(1996). Parental Involvement in Schooling: an emerging research agenda. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 5-20
The Rhetoric and the Reality of the Promotion of Reflection During Practice Teaching
Cet article rapporte une etude faite en Australie evaluant l'introduction de la reflexivite dans les programmes de formation des maitres. L'A. remarque que meme si tous les textes officiels parlent de l'importance de la reflexivite, on n'y trouve aucune veritable definition de ce concept. La rhetorique n'a pas ete suivie de pratique. C'est le role des formateurs d'encourager la reflexivite chez les futurs professeurs : reflexivite sur les actions…
The Education of Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Western Australia
L'analyse historique de la politique d'integration des deficients intellectuels en Australie occidentale releve trois periodes : 1) l'exclusion de 1830 a 1920, 2) la discrimination de 1930 a 1960, 3) l'integration de 1970 a 1990. Pour chaque periode sont evoques les differents acteurs en presence et leurs conceptions du handicap intellectuel, conceptions tant medicales que psychologiques, juridiques, politiques, religieuses ou pedagogiques. La pr…
How teachers manage their work in inclusive classrooms
Qualitative Educational Research in Action
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Negotiating curriculum demands of ‘the Church’ and ‘the state’
God's antipodean teaching force
Planning Your Qualitative Research Project
This is a key text for any student embarking on a qualitative research project, it provides worked examples and valuable models which can be used as guides for plans and proposals, answering key questions and providing a comprehensive guide to a student’s project. It shows that when planning a qualitative research proposal, researchers should adopt an approach where they ask themselves the following four questions: What research paradigm informs …
Colonialism, education and social change in the British Empire
This paper focuses on the history of relations between colonialism, schooling and social change in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Ireland, countries that were once part of the British Empire. It indicates that responses to schooling ranged from acceptance and tolerance, to modification and rejection, depending on the country, the issue, and the historical period. There were also differences in the historical connections in schooling between Brit…
Continuity and change in the perspectives of women religious in Ireland on themselves both as religious and as teachers in the years immediately prior to, and following, the Second Vatican Council (19…
A general lack of scholarly works on various aspects of the history of the lives of female teaching religious has recently been highlighted by Hellinckx, Depaepe and Simon. This paper, which reports a preliminary study, is offered as one contribution to addressing the deficit identified. The hope is that it will provoke further scholarship in the field. It is based on an oral history project on the perspectives of female religious in Ireland on t…
Catholic Teaching Brothers
O'Donoghue's book, which is written as a traditional historical narrative, while also utilizing a comparative approach, is concerned with the life of Catholic religious teaching brothers across the En
Contesting the Limond thesis on British influence in Irish education since 1922
This paper is a response to David Limond's exposition, “[An] historical culture ... rapidly, universally, and thoroughly restored”? British influence on Irish education since 1922', which appeared in Comparative Education, Vol. 46, No. 4, November 2010, pp. 449–462. Limond's overall thesis is that ‘a post-colonial overhang affects Irish policy-makers and bureaucrats in their educational policies and practices’. This paper contests three main aspe…
An analysis of recruitment literature used by orders of Catholic religious teaching brothers in Australia, 1930 to 1960
The general focus of this paper is on religious teaching brothers, a very much neglected group within the body of historical scholarship on Catholic education generally. Notwithstanding the existence of an extensive body of literature of a hagiographic nature – much of it commissioned by male religious orders – as well as a small number of academic theses, brothers occupy a field wide open for research on many fronts, internationally and using a …
Sociology (40 works) · Political science (27 works) · Pedagogy (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Social science (14 works) · Religious Education and Schools (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Irish and British Studies (10 works) · Psychology (10 works)