Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion

3:10 pm

Ms Catriona Crowe:

To add to the welcome suggestion that we might have some input from the United Kingdom, Mr. McCarthy is right that it is a different system but the fundamental questions we are asking here today are being asked in Britain. I would suggest that someone like Tristram Hunt, who is both an MP and a historian and who chaired the Ofsted committee of inquiry into this precise subject in 2011, would be a useful person to invite. We will certainly talk to the History Teachers Association of Ireland and find a way to get him here. I think that would be very helpful.