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Think!
by Fr. Cormac O’Brolcháin
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17th May, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-907179-00-6
Price: €9.95
This short book considers the school days of our children. The years at school pass so quickly and yet they have such a profound influence on their lives later on. The importance of considering and being fully aware of what in fact is happening during a ‘normal’ school day is underlined.
In the various chapters the author talks about school bags, mobile phones, wet days, dry days, the school buildings, the colour schemes, space, desks, teachers, methods of instruction, our children’s friends. He looks at our children’s capabilities, habits, gifts and intelligence and the meaning of success. The many outside influences that impinge on our children’s lives are also exposed.
About the Author
Cormac O’Brolcháin, a Spiritan priest, having studied philosophy and psychology at U.C.D. (N.U.I.), and music at the Dublin College of Music, began his teaching career in the West Indies (1962-1965). On returning to Ireland, he continued his studies for four further years reading theology and music, during which time he was ordained to the priesthood (1968). In 1969 he was appointed to East Africa. After a year in parish work, he spent thirteen years as teacher, Principal and then Headmaster of St. Mary’s School, Nairobi. In 1984 he was awarded an M.Litt (T.C.D.) for his evaluative research on the experimental use of music, para-liturgies and drama in religious education. Three years after returning to Ireland (1984), he was appointed Principal of Blackrock College, Dublin, (1987). He retired as Principal in 2000.
In 2002 he was awarded a Ph.D., (D.C.U.), for his research into the importance of experiential religious education in the religious development of adolescent boys. In 2005, after three years as Chaplain in Willow Park School, he was appointed President of Blackrock College, Dublin.
