Roadmap for scaling up local school community engagement to inform education policy
making in Ireland
During the last decade, several OECD countries have been supporting citizen engagement
in policy making to better respond to increasingly volatile environments and complex
problems. Ireland has a strong tradition and culture of partnership models and stakeholder
engagement in education policy making. However, a desire to explore new opportunities
for school community engagement and how they could support existing national consultation
processes contributed to the exploration of alternative forms of stakeholder engagement
in education. This has prompted the Teaching Council in collaboration with a range
of Government Departments and national stakeholders, to request assistance from the
European Commission’s Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM)
for the project “Support to improve local community engagement in Ireland’s education
policy development”. Drawing from international examples, existing stakeholder engagement
practices in Ireland, the contributions of a wide range of education stakeholders
and a pilot exercise, this report proposes a model and roadmap for exploring the potential
of school community engagement to further support policy making across the Irish education
system.
Published on October 12, 2023
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