School Notes
Date posted: 听 Apr 07, 2022
Sean McGraw's new book provides a comprehensive study of educational policy reform as growing calls for further reducing the role of the Catholic Church in Irish primary schools gains traction in a rapidly evolving Irish society.
Drawing upon lessons from听the same-sex marriage and abortion reform campaigns, this study provides听several policy case studies that demonstrate how the interplay of civil society听activists and organisations, the media, public opinion, and political parties听and elites determines how policy reforms live or die.听
听 contains a rich and novel set of data, including interviews with leaders and elites from the major actors and institutions, numbers and trends from previously unreleased data from the Church and Department of Education, evidence from the authors鈥� originally designed and implemented parliamentary surveys, an original analysis of media coverage of educational issues and actors involved in the main educational reform debates, and detailed case studies of divestment, admissions, and curriculum policy reforms.听