Education in Ireland
Subtitle: challenge and change
By: edited by Sheelagh Drudy
Publisher: Gill and Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780717147670
Subjects: Education; Éducation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Legacy of legislation and the pragmatics of policy: historical perspectives on schooling for Irish children / Deirdre Raftery -- 2.; title: "Words importing the masculine gender includes females": women at University College Dublin in the first decade of the 20th century / Judith Harford -- 3.; title: Education and the knowledge economy: a challenge for Ireland in changing times / Sheelagh Drudy -- 4.; title: Dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in children's social world in school / Dympna Devine -- 5.; title: Are inclusive schools possible? students with disabilities and special educational needs in second-level schools / William Kinsella -- 6.; title: ADHD: inclusion or exclusion in mainstream Irish schools? / Joyce Senior -- 7.; title: Inclusion in primary school: experience in Ireland and the United States of America / Máirín Barry -- 8.; title: Language, socio-economic class and educational underachievement / Gerry Mac Ruairc -- 9.; title: Role of motivation in learning and using Irish among primary and second-level students: a review of the evidence / Lelia Murtagh -- 10.; title: Recruitment to primary teaching in Ireland: a North/South comparative analysis / Sheelagh Drudy -- 11.; title: Choosing post-primary teaching as a career: perspectives from the Republic of Ireland / Marie Clarke -- 12.; title: Role of induction and mentors in supporting newly qualified teachers / Maureen Killeavy and Anne Moloney -- 13.; title: Progressing towards inclusion in Ireland: profesional development for learning support/resource teachers / Elizabeth O'Gorman -- 14.; title: Pedagogies of privilege: rethinking interculturalism and anti-racism in education / Audrey Bryan -- 15.; title: Constructivism and the teaching of science educators / Paul McElwee -- 16.; title: Research-based profession: the importance of action research in teacher education / Bernard McGettrick -- 17.; title: Public policy making: the emerging policy making modality and its challenge for education policy research in Ireland / Conor Galvin.