A possible list of aims for the junior cycle of post primary education, together with their implications for educational practice (For the Department of Education Inter-Cert Committee 1972). ESRI Memorandum Series No. 86:

Raven, John (1972) A possible list of aims for the junior cycle of post primary education, together with their implications for educational practice (For the Department of Education Inter-Cert Committee 1972). ESRI Memorandum Series No. 86:. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

Educational aims vary with the background from which the pupils come, with the Society, or sub-section society~ in which the pupils are going to live, and with the part puvils are going to playin that society, both in and out of work. We do not have adequate data on which to base a reasoned statement of aims; we know Very little about the important features in the home backgrounds of our pupils, or even which are the most important things one should find out about; we know very little about theldemands that are going to be made upon our pupils as they lead their lives after they leave school and about the sort of problems they are going to be called upon to tackle; we know very little about the changes that are going to take place in the society in which we live and the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are going to be called uponto tackle these problems; and we know very little about the long term consequences of different types of educational input.

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