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Peer reviewedTitley, E. Brian – Oxford Review of Education, 1983
The Irish educational system in the period following Irish independence was heavily influenced by the Rev. Timothy J. Corcoran. Rejecting any sort of child-influenced curriculum, he called for a rigid classics-based education based on Catholic dogma with maximum emphasis on memorization and repetition rather than on inquiry. (IS)
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Comparative Education, Conventional Instruction, Educational History
