goodness me! goodness you! developing a senior curriculum for children in community national schools
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Goodness Me! Goodness You!
Developing a Senior Curriculum for Children in Community National Schools
What is a Curriculum? ‘It will be helpful if we
distinguish the use of the word “curriculum” to denote the content of a particular subject or area of study from the use of it to refer to the total programme of an educational institution’.
[A.V. Kelly – The Curriculum]
An Originally Diverse Irish School System
1831 – a state controlled primary school system was introduced in Ireland which was multi-denominational
Children of all denominations would be educated together in ‘secular’ subjects
Separate arrangements would be made for doctrinal instruction
Teacher education would also be ‘mixed’
A Denominational System de Facto
Each of the denominations resisted it, seeing the schooling process as ‘an extension of pastoral care’
‘This conflict between state and church...the state’s retaining the concept of a de jure mixed system which became increasingly denominational in fact’ (Coolahan 1981)
The Irish Context of Schooling – A Peculiar Reality 2015
96% of primary schools being denominational, with 90% Catholic and 6% Protestant
There are two Muslim schools and one Jewish school
Only 4% of schools are multi-denominational
Community National Schools
Goodness Me! Goodness You! in Community National Schools
A Multi-Belief Curriculum in Religion and Ethics
GMGY! Also expresses ethos of the school
Community National Schools
Fundamental principles
Child voice Parent and
community voice ‘Belief nurturing’ The equality of
religion and humanism
What is a Multi-denominational school?
A school which seeks to foster a genuine equality between all belief systems in the school (vs. faith schools which foster one)
A school where this equality is connected to expression and discussion of these belief systems in school time (vs. nondenominational which don’t allow this)
Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education
Making A Critical Difference in
Education
‘Participation – it is all the better to eat you with my children’
GMGY Senior Programme
4 Strands 1. Story 2. We Are A Community National School 3. Thinking Time 4. Beliefs and Religion
Embed Global Ed in GMGY
1. Developing exemplars in Development Education to embed in strands
- Story: Narrative approach - We Are a CNS: Values education - Thinking Time: Philosophy method - Belief and Religion: Pluralist beliefs 2. CPD for teachers in schools
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