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Piety and Privilege - Catholic Secondary Schooling in Ireland and the Theocratic State, 1922-1967 (Hardcover)
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Piety and Privilege - Catholic Secondary Schooling in Ireland and the Theocratic State, 1922-1967 (Hardcover)
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For centuries, the Catholic Church around the world insisted it had
a right to provide and organize its own schools. It decreed also
that while nation states could lay down standards for secular
curricula, pedagogy, and accommodation, Catholic parents should
send their children to Catholic schools and be able to do so
without suffering undue financial disadvantage. Thus, from the Pope
down, the Church expressed deep opposition to increasing state
intervention in schooling, especially during the nineteenth
century. By the end of the 1920s however, it was satisfied with the
school system in only a small number of countries. Ireland was one
of those. There, the majority of primary and secondary schools were
Catholic schools. The State left their management in the hands of
clerics while simultaneously accepting financial responsibility for
maintenance and teachers' salaries. During the period 1922-1967,
the Church, unhindered by the State, promoted within the schools'
practices aimed at 'the salvation of souls' and at the reproduction
of a loyal middle class and clerics. The State supported that
arrangement with the Church also acting on its behalf in aiming to
produce a literate and numerate citizenry, in pursuing nation
building, and in ensuring the preparation of an adequate number of
secondary school graduates to address the needs of the public
service and the professions. All of that took place at a financial
cost much lower than the provision of a totally State-funded system
of schooling would have entailed. Piety and Privilege seeks to
understand the dynamic between Church and State through the lens of
the twentieth century Irish education system.
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