Exploring the Potential for Arts-Rich Education in the Primary Classroom: Teacher Learning, Transformation, and New Trajectories.

Since the foundation of a national system of primary education in 1831, curricular reforms – in the guise of the Revised Programme of Instruction (1900), Curaclam na Bunscoile (1971), and the Primary School Curriculum (1999) – have succeeded in both broadening the definition and increasing the status of the arts in schools. However while these curricula each presented the arts disciplines as an in…