100 years of inequality?: Irish educational policy since the foundation of the state

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dc.contributor.authorHarford, Judithen
dc.contributor.authorFleming, Brianen
dc.contributor.authorHyland, Áineen
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-21T14:09:14Z
dc.date.available2025-02-21T14:09:14Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.issued2024en
dc.description.abstract2022 marks one hundred years since the foundation of the Irish State, and thus an appropriate time in which to reflect on how educational policy has shaped the nation over the course of a century. This article examines one hundred years of education policy through an equality lens, asking how the concept of educational equality has been understood, fostered and mediated. Framing policy implementation across three defined periods, 1922–1959, 1960–1980 and 1981–2022, it argues that with the exception of a brief window which occurred during the 1960s, education policy has not been underpinned by rigorous policy formation based on considerations of social justice. 11 We employ the term equality throughout as this was the term used by politicians and policy-makers in the period under review. While originally conceived of in terms of access, the 1990s marked a shift in emphasis towards equality of participation. Nonetheless, a rather limited application of the concept, narrowly understood in terms of access, still dominates to this day. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationHarford, J., Fleming, B. and Hyland, Á. (2023) '100 years of inequality?: Irish educational policy since the foundation of the state', Paedagogica Historica, 60(4), pp. 726–741. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2022.2155979en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00309230.2022.2155979en
dc.identifier.endpage741en
dc.identifier.issn0030-9230en
dc.identifier.issn1477-674Xen
dc.identifier.issued4
dc.identifier.journaltitlePaedagogica Historicaen
dc.identifier.startpage726en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17100
dc.identifier.volume60
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rights© 2022, the Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med-ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this articlehas been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectEducational disadvantageen
dc.subjectEqualityen
dc.subjectFree Stateen
dc.subjectIrish educational policyen
dc.subject~Education - Áine Hyland Works~en
dc.subject~Education - Journal Articles~en
dc.title100 years of inequality?: Irish educational policy since the foundation of the stateen
dc.typeArticle (peer reviewed)en
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