Leaving Cert politics to cover thinkers such as "Hobbes, Locke and...Lynch."

[Brendan Burgess]

This has to be a joke?

Politics introduced as Leaving Cert subject next year

"The course will include a focus on voting systems in the [broken link removed], ownership and control of the media, and definitions such as social class and patriarchy.

Students should also be familiar with thinkers such as [broken link removed], [broken link removed], and UCD academic Kathleen Lynch."

 

[Purple]

I'd say it's real but it should be called "Socialist Indoctrination Studies" if a clown like Kathleen Lynch is being treated with any degree of seriousness (no offense meant to clowns).
Is Marx being studied in the context of the evils of totalitarianism and how fundamentally undemocratic an inevitably repressive the notion of equality of outcome is on a societal level?

 

[Marion]

I suspect it's a carry forward from CSPE

I supervised a JC exam class a couple of years ago and I was asked how to spell CSPE

Marion

 

[cremeegg]

The NCCA loves an Irish dimension to any subject. Lots of otherwise obscure Irish physicists get a mention in the LC.

If they wanted a significant Irish political thinker, there is of course Edmund Burke, but as someone who argued against the coercive power of the state, he hardly fits with the idea of a government prescribed curriculum.

 

[Purple]

Edmund Burke?... Sure some people might know the name but he's hardly in the same league as Kathleen Lynch!

 

[Purple]

but as someone who argued against the coercive power of the state, he hardly fits with the idea of a government prescribed curriculum.

Or Left Wing ideology in general. Our kids will never hear of him!

 

[Brendan Burgess]

I supervised a JC exam class a couple of years ago and I was asked how to spell CSPE

That is brilliant. Did you get it right?

Brendan