Education - Áine Hyland Works
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Item Does the Leaving Certificate reward LOT (lower order thinking) rather than HOT (higher order thinking)?(UCL Institute of Education Press, University College London, 2018) Hyland, Áine; Baird, Jo-Anne; Isaacs, Tina; Opposs , Dennis; Gray, Lena; Gray, LenaItem 50 Years on: Reflecting on the legacy of free second level education(2018-04-28) Hyland, ÁineThis paper provides a backdrop to the birth of free second level education in Ireland in September 1967. It sets the context for change and highlights some lessons for to-day.Item “Audacious and brave?” The early days of multi-denominational education. The setting up of the Dalkey School Project N.S. in 1978(National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals, 2018) Hyland, ÁineA headline in the Irish Times on 23rd August 2018 read: “Principal resigns in protest over entry policy”. The article, by education correspondent Carl O’Brien, opened with the sentence: “A principal has resigned from a Church of Ireland primary school in protest over moves to prioritise the enrolment of children who are actively involved in the parish and attend church services”. The story related to the resignation of principal Eileen Jackson from St. Patrick’s National School, Greystones, Co. Wicklow on the basis that a decision had been taken that priority access would be given to children who are “accustomed members” of the Church of Ireland parish of Greystones. The school’s Board of Management had decided that children who were “active members of the parish”, as certified by the parish rector, would be given priority admission to the school. Reading this article brought me back almost 45 years to a similar situation which occurred in another Church of Ireland National School, St. Patrick’s, Dalkey, Co. Dublin, in 1974. St. Patrick’s, Dalkey had been a small one-teacher national school from the early 1890s until the 1950s. A new dynamic and forward-looking principal, Florence Armstrong, was appointed in the early 1960s and under her visionary leadership, the school grew rapidly until it was a five-teacher school by the early 1970s. It was a pilot school for the then new and progressive Primary School Curriculum of 1971 and had become increasingly popular with families of all religions and none from the area. Many of the parents of St. Patrick’s, Dalkey would like the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, who was patron of the school, to endorse what had become a de facto multi-denominational school, but this was not to be.Item The future of STEM in Irish education – a commentary on the Report of The Joint Oireachtas Commitee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (JOCEFHERIS), July 2023(Chemistry Education Research Group, University of Limerick, 2023) Hyland, ÁineAn important report on The Future of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) in Irish Education was published by the Joint Oireachtas Commitee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (JOCEFHERIS) in July 2023: htps://www.oireachtas.ie/en/commitees/33/education/ . The report is comprehensive and detailed, containing no fewer than 305 pages (including appendices). It is writen in a clear, accessible and inclusive style. Its recommendations are based on submissions and evidence from relevant, experienced and interested stakeholders from both within and outside the Irish education system.Item John Horgan’s years as editor of the Education Times 1973-1976(New Island Books, 2015-10-20) Hyland, Áine; Rafter, Kevin; O'Brien, Mark