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Goodness Me! Goodness You!

Goodness Me! Goodness You!. Developing a Senior Curriculum for Children in Community National Schools. What is a Curriculum?.

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Goodness Me! Goodness You!

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  1. Goodness Me! Goodness You! Developing a Senior Curriculum for Children in Community National Schools

  2. 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]

  3. 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’

  4. 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)

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Community National Schools • Fundamental principles • Child voice • Parent and community voice • ‘Belief nurturing’ • The equality of religion and humanism

  8. 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)

  9. Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education Making A Critical Difference in Education

  10. ‘Participation – it is all the better to eat you with my children’

  11. GMGY Senior Programme • 4 Strands • 1. Story • 2. We Are A Community National School • 3. Thinking Time • 4. Beliefs and Religion

  12. 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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