: John Walsh
: Higher Education in Ireland, 1922-2016 Politics, Policy and Power-A History of Higher Education in the Irish State
: Palgrave Macmillan
: 9781137446732
: 1
: CHF 87.20
:
: Erwachsenenbildung
: English
: 563
: Wasserzeichen/DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF
This book explores the emergence of the modern higher education sector in the independent Irish state. The author traces its origins from the traditional universities, technical schools and teacher training colleges at the start of the twentieth century, cataloguing its development into the complex, multi-layered and diverse system of the early twenty-first century. Focusing on the socio-political and cultural contexts which shaped the evolution of higher education, the author analyses the interplay between the state, academic institutions and other key institutional actors - notably churches, cultural organizations, employers, trade unions and supranational bodies. This study explores policy, structural and institutional change in Irish higher education, suggesting that the emergence of the modern higher education system in Ireland was influenced by ideologies and trends which owed much to a wider European and international context. 
 
The book considers how the exercise of power at local, national and international level impinged on the mission, purpose and values of higher education and on the creation and expansion of a distinctive higher education system. The author also explores a transformation in public and political understandings of the role of higher education, charting the gradual evolution from traditionalist conceptions of the academy as a repository for cultural and religious value formation, to the re-positioning of higher education as a vital factor in the knowledge based economy. This comprehensive volume will appeal to students and scholars of the Irish education system, educators and practitioners in the field, and those interested in higher education in Ireland more generally.



John Walsh is Ussher Lecturer in Higher Education at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and Director of the Cultures, Academic Values and Education Research Centre in the School of Education.
Acknowledgements5
Contents7
List of Figures9
Introduction11
1 Ideas of the University18
The ‘Irish University Question’21
‘Nobody’s Ideal’25
Halfway Revolution33
2 Universities in the Irish Free State44
‘Free State Fights for Supremacy…’49
‘…A Very Difficult Problem’53
‘…There Need not Be Any Apprehension About It…’62
‘In Medicine and Surgery, There Is No North and South’75
The Era of De Valera77
‘…It Was Better to Leave the Text as It Stood…’79
‘…The Whole Position…Is Destroyed in One Blow’82
‘The Professor Was Very Nervous…’88
‘…A Certain Flow of Emigrants from This Country Is Inevitable…’100
Benign Neglect109
3 Church, State and the University121
Integralist Catholicism121
Gaelicisation130
Women in Higher Education136
The Academy and Society139
4 Higher Technical Education in Ireland145
Origins of Higher Technical Education145
Higher Technical Education in the Free State152
‘…Professors and Students Moved About like Chattels’153
‘…The Failure to Develop that Systematic Technical Training Which Is Recognised…as an Essential Factor of Industrial Success’157
5 Ministers, Bishops and Teachers170
6 The End of the Old Order201
‘…No Further Educational Reorganisation Is Intended…’203
‘…Absolutely a Disgrace…’205
‘Extraordinary Discrimination…’211
Palace Revolutions215
Muddling Through217
An Elite System236
7 The Transformation of Higher Education246
‘…Break-Down Point Has Almost Been Reached…’249
‘They May Have the Subtlety, But I Have the Money’—The University Merger259
‘The Issue Is Fundamentally a National One…’268
Diversification and the Transformation of Higher Technical Education270
Teacher Education282
The Binary System294
Increasing Participation310
Student Dissent315
‘…The Unprecedented Expansion of Post-compulsory Education…’320
8 Reform and Resistance341
Crisis and Retrenchment343
‘…The Creation of Universities Did Not Loom Large on My Horizon…’351
Higher Education and the Celtic Tiger356
Widening Participation364
Breaking the Circle?369
‘A regulatory regime built on mistrust...’374
9 Globalisation and the Primacy of Economics398
Internationalisation401
Teaching and Learning404
‘Making Knowledge Work for Us’?410
Managerialism419
Access and Inequality425
Gender430
The OECD Review435
Sustainability440
Private Higher Education446
The Hunt Report451
Contemporary Initiatives460
10 Higher Education in the Twenty First Century493
Bibliography505
Index522