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.
| ISBN: | 9780415689809 |
| Publication date: | 8th December 2011 |
| Author: | Donald H Akenson |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 442 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Library Editions. Education |
| Genres: |
Philosophy and theory of education |