The Irish Education Experiment
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The Irish Education Experiment book
The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century
ByDonald Akenson
Edition 1st Edition
eBook Published 8 December 2011
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203181379
Subjects Education
Akenson, D. (1970). The Irish Education Experiment: The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203181379
This volume focuses on the creation, structure and evolution of the Irish national system of education. It illustrates how the system was shaped by the religious, social and political realities of nineteenth century Ireland and discusses the effects that the system had upon the Irish nation: namely that it was the chief means by which the country was transformed from one in which illiteracy predominated to one in which most people, even the poorest, could read and write.
chapter |16 pages
The Irish National System As An Educational Surprise
The Eighteenth-Century Background
An Administrative Genealogy
Some Bureaucratic Archaeology, 1831–49
Spinning The Educational Top 1831–49
The Politics of the Curriculum 1831–54
Over The Hill And Into The Woods, 1850–70
Twenty Hearts Beating As None, 1871–1900