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Walsh, Thomas – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
This case study focuses on the journey and progress to date within the Irish education system to redevelop the national primary school curriculum. While the redevelopment process focuses on all aspects of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, a particular focus is placed on elements relating to whole-child development. Central to this is an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Woods, Adell; Mannion, Arlene; Garrity, Sheila – Child Care in Practice, 2022
Aistear: The Early Childhood Curriculum Framework, was launched in Ireland in 2009. The framework is applicable in all settings where children in the 0-6-year range are present; this includes all early years settings and the first two years of primary schools, referred to as "infant classes" in the Irish context. This article shares the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Gouëdard, Pierre; Pont, Beatriz; Hyttinen, Susan; Huang, Pinhsuan – OECD Publishing, 2020
Countries consider curriculum reform as an important and necessary measure to make schools enter the 21st century and respond to a fast-changing world. In recent years, many OECD countries have engaged in curriculum reform as a way to equip children with the knowledge, skills and competences needed for tomorrow. However, how to initiate such…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Change, Curriculum Design
Usher, Joe – Irish Educational Studies, 2020
The process of curriculum making and educational policy development is contentious, and, as such, is emblematic of societal values as a whole, and, more significantly, the power relations and economic trends within that. Recent education developments in the Republic of Ireland pertaining to primary level have seen a marked shift away from a broad…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Elementary School Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
Howieson, Cathy; Spours, Ken; Young, Michael – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This Introduction provides an overview of the distinctive contribution of the late David Raffe to educational research in the UK and internationally over a 40-year period. His wide-ranging research on post-compulsory education and training systems was enriched by the development of conceptual distinctions that have become part of the lingua franca…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Educational Policy, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Breacháin, Annie Ó; O'Toole, Leah – Irish Educational Studies, 2013
In 1999, the primary curriculum was published in Ireland, with emphases on "breadth and balance", recognition of the role of language and the arts and commitment to each child's potential and holistic development. In 2011, the Irish government published a strategy aimed to improve standards of literacy and numeracy among children and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Numeracy, Politics of Education