The Pay Schools of Ireland and their Interface with the National System of Education

Deals with the clash between the free, enterprising pay schools and the controlled and systematized national schools in Ireland since 1831.

Autorentext

Dr Tony Lyons, retired lecturer in the History of Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Book Publications: The Education Work of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish Educator and Inventor, 1744-1817. Lyons, Tony & Moloney, Noel, Educational Resources in the British Empire: Examining Nineteenth Century Ireland and Literacy Tony Lyons has contributed many articles and book chapters to various publications over the years.

Inhalt

Contents: The Beginnings of a Systematic Approach to Elementary Education in Europe and the British Empire Image of the Hedge Schoolteacher Critique of Hedge School Education The Transposition of Irish Education, 17801831 The Early Years of the National System of Education The Christian Brothers and Education in Ireland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.