Educational reform in the 1960s

The introduction of comprehensive schools in the Republic of Ireland

Bibliographic Data

ID8102072
AuthorsMarie Clarke (0000-0002-5681-7787, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume39
Issue3
Pages383-399
Publication date2009-08-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0046-760X • E-ISSN: 1464-5130
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00467600902857013
OpenAlexW1968646019
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This paper documents the introduction of the comprehensive schools in the Irish education system in 1963 and seeks to illustrate how the two most powerful organisations most directly involved in Irish education during this period, the Department of Education and the Catholic Hierarchy, viewed the introduction of the comprehensive schools. Through an in‐depth analysis of existing correspondence between the Catholic Hierarchy and the Department of Education, this paper highlights the ongoing tensions between the Catholic Church and the government of the day in response to proposed changes in the Irish education system. The way in which the documents were written and presented provides a path of access to the mindsets of the participants in relation to the policy issue and processes that they were engaged in. Thereby this paper contributes to the historiography of the period and provides a new dimension through which Irish education policy can be understood at this juncture

Education policy · Education reform · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Hierarchy · Higher education · Historiography · Irish · Pedagogy · Period (music · Political science · Primary education · Relation (database · Sociology · The Republic · Irish and British Studies · Law · Public Administration

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