The Quality of their Education: School Leavers’ Views of Educational Objectives and Outcomes. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 153, October 1991

Hannan, D.F. and Shortall, S. (1991) The Quality of their Education: School Leavers’ Views of Educational Objectives and Outcomes. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 153, October 1991. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Modern educational systems have very important and complex objectives. Socialisation into the highly complicated cultural, and ever evolviilg "technical-rational", characteristics of the economic, social and political arrangements of their societies are amongst the most important objectives. But individual and personal development, preparation for work and aduh life, and the classification and certification of individuals’ attainments are ahnost equally important. This study investigates the success of the Irish educational system in achieving some of its more important stated objectives, as measured b)’ school leavers’ assessments of the effectiveness of their own education.

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