Education Policy in Ireland Since 1922

Brendan Walsh is Associate Professor of Education at the School of Policy and Practice, Dublin City University. His primary research interests are the history of education, policy and initial teacher education, and he has published widely on these topics.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Primary curriculum policy development in Ireland 1922-1999: From partisanship to partnership.- Chapter 3. Curriculum in context: evolution of Irish curriculum policy and practice.- Chapter 4. Denominationalism, secularism, and multiculturalism in Irish policy and media discourse on public school education.- Chapter 5. Two roads diverged: Policy shifts in second-level Religious Education 1998-2020.- Chapter 6. Post-Primary In-career Teacher Professional Development in Ireland.- Chapter 7. Old ribbons, new bows: the historical development of internal improvement processes in Irish schools.- Chapter 8. Vocational education, rural Ireland and the nation state 1930-1960.- Chapter 9. Key Milestones in the Evolution of Skills Policy in Ireland.- Chapter 10. Whose right(s) is it anyway? A review of Policy and Practice(s) in Inclusive Education in Ireland.- Chapter 11. “A normal and useful method of class control?” Policy on corporal punishment in Irish schools: c1974-1985.- Chapter 12. The Evolution of Academic Selection in Northern Ireland.- Chapter 13. Irish school science curricula 1831-2020.- Chapter 14. DR. T.J. O’Connell’s contribution to Irish Education Policy 1922-1957.- Chapter 15. ‘Universities and Colleges’: higher education and the Independent Irish State, 1922–1945.- Chapter 16. Aspects of education policy and the work of secondary teachers in Ireland 1965-2010.