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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822512103321

Autore

Akenson Donald H

Titolo

The Irish education experiment : the national system of education in the nineteenth century / / Donald H. Akenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-136-59141-9

1-280-67590-X

9786613652836

1-136-59142-7

0-203-18137-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions: education ; ; 87

Disciplina

370.9415

370.941709034

370/.9415

Soggetti

Education - Ireland - History

Education - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on thesis, Harvard.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE IRISH EDUCATION EXPERIMENT: The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century; Copyright; THE IRISH EDUCATION EXPERIMENT: The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century; Original Copyright; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; I THE IRISH NATIONAL SYSTEM AS AN EDUCATIONAL SURPRISE; II THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND; III AN ADMINISTRATIVE GENEALOGY; IV SOME BUREAUCRATIC ARCHAEOLOGY, 1831-49; V SPINNING THE EDUCATIONAL TOP, 1831-49; VI THE POLITICS OF THE CURRICULUM, 1831-54; VII OVER THE HILL AND INTO THE WOODS, 1850-70

VIII TWENTY HEARTS BEATING AS NONE, 1871-1900IX CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.