WP4 Desk-Based Research (Ireland): Education for Democracy – National and Comparative Analysis

This report presents the national desk-based research conducted by Dublin City University (DCU) under Work Package 4 (WP4) of the Horizon Europe DEMOCRAT project. WP4 explored Education for Democracy (EfD) across six European countries through national policy mapping, curriculum analysis, and teacher education review. The Irish component included a comprehensive review of primary, post-primary, and higher education curricula, as well as participatory and rights-based education initiatives. The analysis contributes to the comparative synthesis led by Tallinn University and the University of Helsinki. This dataset and report are released to ensure transparent authorship and citation for the Irish WP4 outputs and may be cited in any subsequent publications referring to the DEMOCRAT comparative Education for Democracy analysis.本报告呈现了都柏林城市大学（Dublin City University, DCU）在欧洲地平线（Horizon Europe）计划DEMOCRAT项目工作包4（Work Package 4, WP4）下开展的全国桌面研究。工作包4以民主教育（Education for Democracy, EfD）为研究主题，通过国家政策梳理、课程分析与教师教育审查，在六个欧洲国家展开相关调研。本次研究的爱尔兰板块涵盖对小学、中等教育及高等教育课程的全面审查，同时覆盖参与式与权利本位教育举措的调研。本分析为塔林大学与赫尔辛基大学主导的比较综合研究提供支撑。本数据集与报告的发布旨在确保爱尔兰工作包4产出成果的署名与引用透明性，后续所有涉及DEMOCRAT项目民主教育比较分析的研究出版物，均可引用本数据集与报告。