The teachers' club.
Dublin boasts the world's oldest and prettiest teachers club. First opened within a couple of years of the founding of the independent Irish State, the club's constitution requires at least 66% of its members to be primary school teachers. Apart from meeting the social and drinking needs o...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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[London] :
Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education,
2007.
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| Series: | VAST: Academic Video Online
Inspirations ; 1 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Dublin boasts the world's oldest and prettiest teachers club. First opened within a couple of years of the founding of the independent Irish State, the club's constitution requires at least 66% of its members to be primary school teachers. Apart from meeting the social and drinking needs of its membership, the club has been a focus of modernising teaching practice in Ireland. It was a meeting (and plotting) location during the Irish teachers strikes in the 1940s and 1980s and was the birthplace of a new political party that held power as part of a coalition. Its members are amazed that their British counterparts have never founded a comparable club and reveal what fun they are missing. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (17 min.). |