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Irish education for the 21st century / edited by Noel Ward and Triona Dooney.

Contributor(s): Dooney, Triona | Ward, Noel.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Oak Tree Press, 1999Description: xv, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm + pbk.ISBN: 186076150X; 9781860761508.Subject(s): Education -- Ireland | Educational change -- IrelandDDC classification: 370.9417
Contents:
To be a child / Philomena Donnelly -- Getting the basics right / Joe O'Toole -- Quality - the key debate in education / Richard Bruton -- Inclusiveness in education / Aine Hyland -- School is becoming a thing of the past / Eamon Gilmore -- Teacher professionalism in an era of change / Charles Lennon -- Catholic church influence in the management of second-level schools / Louis O'Flaherty -- Attempts to tackle disadvantage - Blitzkrieg or phoney war? / Tony Deffely -- Further education - challenge and opportunity / Jim Dorney -- From clockwork to porridge: Is there "one right way" to manage schools? / Gearoid O Bradaigh -- Computers in the classroom: a question of control / Brian Trench -- Barriers to entering higher education / Patrick Clancy -- Higher education: Who benefits from its development? / Seamus Puirseil -- What kind of change for universities? / Daniel O'Hare -- Green light for a learning society? The green paper "Adult Education in an era of lifelong learning" / Kevin Hurley -- Lifelong learning - the role of unions as knowledge brokers / Peter Cassells -- "Still Alien there?" Northern protestants and the Irish language revival / Prionsias O Drisceoil -- Coming of age: Issues for the institutes of technology / Edward Riordan -- Looking back to look forward: The city of Dublin VEC and adult education / Jim Cooke -- Aspects of Irish education and training in a European context / Richard Langford -- Towards the learning society: Responsiveness and accountability / Micheal Martin -- In memory of Michael Enright: Two Tributes / Davy Hynes and Proinsias O Drisceoil.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What are the challenges facing the Irish education system? Are issues of structure, inequality and curriculum the priorities? How does the system stand on the threshold of the 21st century and what changes are required? This volume of essays addresses these questions and points some ways ahead.

Michael Enright Commemorative Project.

Includes bibliographical references.

To be a child / Philomena Donnelly -- Getting the basics right / Joe O'Toole -- Quality - the key debate in education / Richard Bruton -- Inclusiveness in education / Aine Hyland -- School is becoming a thing of the past / Eamon Gilmore -- Teacher professionalism in an era of change / Charles Lennon -- Catholic church influence in the management of second-level schools / Louis O'Flaherty -- Attempts to tackle disadvantage - Blitzkrieg or phoney war? / Tony Deffely -- Further education - challenge and opportunity / Jim Dorney -- From clockwork to porridge: Is there "one right way" to manage schools? / Gearoid O Bradaigh -- Computers in the classroom: a question of control / Brian Trench -- Barriers to entering higher education / Patrick Clancy -- Higher education: Who benefits from its development? / Seamus Puirseil -- What kind of change for universities? / Daniel O'Hare -- Green light for a learning society? The green paper "Adult Education in an era of lifelong learning" / Kevin Hurley -- Lifelong learning - the role of unions as knowledge brokers / Peter Cassells -- "Still Alien there?" Northern protestants and the Irish language revival / Prionsias O Drisceoil -- Coming of age: Issues for the institutes of technology / Edward Riordan -- Looking back to look forward: The city of Dublin VEC and adult education / Jim Cooke -- Aspects of Irish education and training in a European context / Richard Langford -- Towards the learning society: Responsiveness and accountability / Micheal Martin -- In memory of Michael Enright: Two Tributes / Davy Hynes and Proinsias O Drisceoil.

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