Programme 286, Cherishing All the Children? (29-3-17)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

This week I speak to Dr. Brian Fleming, a retired school principal and author of Irish Education 1922 - 2007: Cherishing all the Children? Among the topics discussed during our conversation were the following:

• Who he spoke to in writing the book


• Where the power lies in education today


• What can be done to reduce inequality in education


• How the insertion of a single word, “for” in the Irish Constitution shaped the government’s role in education


• Provision for reducing disadvantage in the 1998 Education Act