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Teaching training in Ireland

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  • #2
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Second comment:
    Didn't the recent census show that 87% of Irish people last year said that they were of the Catholic faith. Does there not continue to be a very strong demand for education and primary and secondary level in Catholic schools?

    There is no facepalm violent enough to express my feelings on this.


  • #3
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,266 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    lazygal wrote: »
    Good piece here, skeptical about changes though.


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/education/2012/0424/1224315097893.html
    The professor mentioned children, teaching and teachers 16 times. He said the word Catholic 28 times.

    Priorities...


  • #4
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,992 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Quinn has been openly critical of the strong focus on religion in Mary Immaculate’s teacher-training programme. In 2010 the college was criticised by the Teaching Council, which monitors professional standards, for spending too much time teaching religion, noting that subjects such as science, history and geography were allotted 12 hours each in contrast to the 48 hours allotted to religious education.

    :(

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #5
    joseph brand
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    Mary Immaculate, for example, is managed by a board of trustees: the Most Rev Dermot Clifford, archbishop of Cashel Emly; Sr Peggy Collins, Congregration of the Sisters of Mercy (CSM); Sr Breda Coman, CSM; Sr Thomasina Finn, CSM; Richard B Haslam; Very Rev Tony Mullins, administrator of the diocese of Limerick; Most Rev William Murphy, bishop of Kerry; and Margaret O’Brien.

    No doubt Thomasina's father was called Thomas <---weirdo.

    That's some collection of title-demanding, virgin oldsters.


  • #6
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    Maybe it's just me, but doesn't "teacher training" means teaching people how to teach things to children, not indoctrinate them and instil beliefs centred around mystical, immaterial entities for the existence of which there is absolutely no evidence wither direct or indirect?

    The latter role - often called "religious instruction" - is best performed by specialist church personnel - often called "priests" - and has no place in schools at all. Training for these personnel is a matter for their churches and no concern of the State.

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