Duration 2 weeks Two 3rd and 4th class primary school classes gathered information from parents and grandparents about their childhoods, including celebratory holidays and traditions for a curriculum history module, and engaged with the museum to explore the subject. As a group they also watched the RTE Today Show with Dáithí and Maura for the… Continue reading MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2024
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1940s Education in Ireland
Eamonn De Valera, c. 1918–1920. Photo Wikipedia The Minister of Education in Ireland for the 1940s period was originally the same one as the in the 1930s period, Thomas Derrig.Derrig was Minister of Education from 1932-1939, where he was replaced for short amount of time by Eamonn De Valera. Derrig returned as Minister of Education from… Continue reading 1940s Education in Ireland
MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2023
History of Toys and Play. The Museum of Childhood Ireland worked with Dublin Primary school students on a curriculum history strand: Learning from the past, through a programme of exploration of toys that children played with from the 1900s to the 1980s. We brought our ‘Museum in a Suitcase’ to the school for children to… Continue reading MCI’s Primary School Outreach 2023
Reflections on … How my primary school shaped me
By Hadjer Taibi Updated Monday, July 10, 2023 Mohyiddin Abdul Qader (محي الدين عبد القادر) is the name of my very first school where I spent the first six years of my education. It is located in a small town called Kheir Eddine in Northwest Algeria, a close-knit community with only a few thousand residents.… Continue reading Reflections on … How my primary school shaped me