Religion, education and religious education in Irish schools

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dc.contributor.authorHyland, Áineen
dc.contributor.authorBocking, Brianen
dc.contributor.editorBerglund, Jennyen
dc.contributor.editorShanneik, Yafaen
dc.contributor.editorBocking, Brianen
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-03T11:43:37Z
dc.date.available2025-06-03T11:43:37Z
dc.date.issued2016-07-17
dc.date.issued2016-07-17en
dc.description.abstractThe character of religious education (RE) in Ireland is intimately linked to the religious patronage (ownership) of most publicly funded schools by religious institutions. Approximately 90 % of schools are run by the Catholic Church. This tradition of religious patronage is increasingly at odds with Ireland’s contemporary multicultural and multireligious society and raises pan-European questions of human rights, especially children’s rights, in the sphere of taxpayer-funded education. The chapter outlines the education system in Ireland (little known outside the republic) and discusses primary and secondary RE as well as current RE teacher education programmes including the innovative “Religions and Global Diversity” undergraduate programme at University College Cork. Progress towards the kind of multireligious RE recommended by the European Council of Ministers has recently slowed. The Irish Government exercises only limited control over what is taught in schools’ RE, and there are still very few teachers properly qualified to deliver education about religions (plural).en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationHyland, Á and Bocking, B. (2016) 'Religion, education and religious education in Irish schools', in Berglund, J., Shanneik, Y. and Bocking, B (eds.) Religious Education in a Global-Local World. Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies, vol 4, pp. 123–133. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32289-6_8en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-32289-6_8en
dc.identifier.eissn2214-529Xen
dc.identifier.endpage133en
dc.identifier.isbn9783319322872en
dc.identifier.isbn9783319322896en
dc.identifier.issn2214-5281en
dc.identifier.journaltitleBoundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societiesen
dc.identifier.startpage123en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17595
dc.identifier.volume4en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen
dc.relation.ispartofBoundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societiesen
dc.relation.ispartofReligious Education in a Global-Local Worlden
dc.rights© 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a chapter published as: Hyland, Á and Bocking, B. (2016) 'Religion, education and religious education in Irish schools', in Berglund, J., Shanneik, Y. and Bocking, B (eds.) Religious Education in a Global-Local World. Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies, vol 4, pp. 123–133. Springer, Cham. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32289-6_8en
dc.subjectCatholic Churchen
dc.subjectReligious education (RE)en
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectReligious patronageen
dc.subjectPublicly funded schoolsen
dc.subject~Education - Journal Articles~en
dc.subject~Education - Áine Hyland Works~en
dc.titleReligion, education and religious education in Irish schoolsen
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