Jeffers, Gerry
(2019)
Transition Year, past, present and future.
Education Matters, Ireland's Yearbook of Education.
pp. 36-42.
ISSN 9780995698727
Abstract
n mid-July 2018, as part of a review of career guidance provision
in schools, the economic consultants charged by the Minister
with the task invited a cross-section of people to a day-long
consultative event in Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. This
followed an earlier invitation for public submissions. A striking feature
of the day was participants’ focus on work experience placements at
second and third level. Embedded in those conversations seemed
to be a strong recognition by educators and other stakeholders
that Transition Year (TY) is widely accepted as a vibrant, integral
component of the Irish education system.
And yet doubts linger. For the first twenty years of Transition Year
there was little evidence the programme would ever move beyond a
quirky, marginal anomaly thought up by a strong-willed Minister for
Education who didn’t consult anyone about his innovation (Jeffers,
2015, p.97). One of Minister Richard Burke’s concerns back in 1974 was
the large number of early school-leavers. He also saw the secondary
school system as conservative and described the Department of
Education as ‘demoralised’. He disliked the divisions and inequalities
in schooling.
‘Something subversive was needed,’ he told me in a 2001 interview.
And so Transition Year was born.
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Article
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| Keywords: |
Transition Year; past; present; future; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
10489 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Gerry Jeffers
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| Date Deposited: |
15 Feb 2019 10:37 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Education Matters, Ireland's Yearbook of Education |
| Publisher: |
Education Matters |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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