Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 2, 2009
Community Development Journal 2009 44(4):532-534; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsp048
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Cultural Politics and Irish Education since the 1950s: Policy Paradigms and Power
Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Roebuck Castle, University College Dublin, Ireland
email: dympna.devine@ucd.ie
Denis O'Sullivan, Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, Ireland, 2006, 640 pp, ISBN(s) 1-904541-26-7, Paperback,
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This is a most impressive text that fills a void in the debate around both the formulation of policy and practice in Irish education. Written in a penetrating style, it is lucid, succinct, reflective and thought provoking. In true sociological fashion (The Sociological Imagination), the author makes the ordinary extraordinary and provides a very valuable analysis of