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Title: The Policy of Payment by Results in Irish Primary Schools, 1871–1900

The Policy of Payment by Results in Irish Primary Schools, 1871–1900

rancour and discord

by Tony Lyons (Author)
©2024 Monographs XVIII, 206 Pages
Education

Summary

This book outlines the principal features of the Payment by Results policy, first introduced in England in 1862. It draws attention to some of the positive aspects of the system but it also considers the more salient features of a system that preyed heavily on both pupils and teachers. Inspectors were used as agents of its implementation, resulting in a divergence of views between them and the teachers. Very few regretted its demise in 1900 when it was replaced by the Revised Programme, a much more child-centred curriculum. It was a system of schooling rather than of education, and it served very few admirably.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lyons, Tony, 1957-author.

Title: The policy of payment by results in Irish primary schools, 1871-1900
: rancour and discord / Tony Lyons.

Description: Oxford; New York: Peter Lang, 2024. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023036863 (print) | LCCN 2023036864 (ebook) | ISBN
9781803741796 (paperback) | ISBN 9781803741802 (ebook) | ISBN
9781803741819 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Teachers--Salaries, etc.--Ireland--History--19th century. |
Educational evaluation--Ireland--History--19th century. | Public
schools--Ireland--History--19th century. | Education and
state--Ireland--History--19th century.

Classification: LCC LB2844.I73 L96 2024 (print) | LCC LB2844.I73 (ebook)
| DDC 371.1009417--dc23/eng/20231017

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023036863

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023036864

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ISBN 978-1-80374-179-6 (print)
ISBN 978-1-80374-180-2 (ePDF)
ISBN 978-1-80374-181-9 (ePub)
DOI 10.3726/ b20833

© 2024 Peter Lang Group AG, Lausanne
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Tony Lyons has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this Work.

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About the author

Dr Tony Lyons, formerly primary school teacher, latterly lecturer in the History of Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. Formerly, Dublin Institute of Technology.

About the book

This book outlines the principal features of the Payment by Results policy, first introduced in England in 1862. It draws attention to some of the positive aspects of the system but it also considers the more salient features of a system that preyed heavily on both pupils and teachers. Inspectors were used as agents of its implementation, resulting in a divergence of views between them and the teachers. Very few regretted its demise in 1900 when it was replaced by the Revised Programme, a much more child-centred curriculum.

It was a system of schooling rather than of education, and it served very few admirably.

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Contents

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Acknowledgements

My thanks to the Library staff of Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, for their unstinting level of service, in particular Ms. Elizabeth Brosnahan.

Gratitude is also extended to the wonderful staff of the National Library of Ireland, Kildare St., Dublin.

An especial thanks goes to my wife Sadhbh, for her support and patience.

Prelude

Education: a debt due from present to future generations.

Details

Pages
XVIII, 206
Year
2024
ISBN (PDF)
9781803741802
ISBN (ePUB)
9781803741819
ISBN (Softcover)
9781803741796
DOI
10.3726/b20833
Language
English
Publication date
2023 (December)
Keywords
Self-interest positivism right-wing narrow curriculum little room for self-expression prescribed scripts teacher seen as functionary a mere cog in a great wheel The Policy of Payment by Results in Irish Primary Schools, 1871-1900 rancour and discord Tony Lyons
Published
Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2024. XVIII, 206 pp., 10 tables.

Biographical notes

Tony Lyons (Author)

Dr Tony Lyons, formerly primary school teacher, latterly lecturer in the History of Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. Formerly, Dublin Institute of Technology.

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