Finding Futures: Purposes of Geography in the Irish Education System
摘要
Drawing on the evidence available, this chapter uses back-casting to seek out purposeful geography within the Irish education system over the past 200 years. Opening with a model for purposeful geography in schools today, the way purposeful geography has been evident or not in policy and practice is outlined. Consideration of how politics, priorities, and personalities have supported and limited purposeful school geography is also made. The chapter closes by presenting a range of possible future scenarios for school geography.