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Oh what a tangled web they weave. 🧵 People want to know who is responsible for inserting 'woke' into our childrens schools. There is a small interconnected network of academics from 𝗗𝗖𝗨, particularly those associated with its 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, who have had a significant influence on the direction of curriculum reforms. When you look at the educational and social theories they predominantly draw from in their research and publications, they are promulgating the same ideas and beliefs that bled out of the academy in the United States and led to the 'woke' insanity and 'culture wars' of the last decade. The same thing is now happening here. The NCCA-commissioned Literature Review on Intercultural Education (IE) used to inform the development of the new Intercultural Education Toolkit (now hosted on curriculumonline.ie) was peer reviewed by 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝘆𝗮𝗻. She was also the Doctoral supervisor of 2 of the reviews authors, 𝗗𝗿 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗞𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗵 and 𝗗𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆. The Lit Review cites Bryan's published scholarship 21 times. It cites Kavanagh's own unpublished Doctoral thesis 69 times, within which she cites Bryan's work 92 times. Bryan's work has had a clear, indirect influence on the curriculum. The Lit Review uses Bryan's critique of the NCCAs earlier 2005/2006 IE guidelines to justify the direction of the new school guidance: the old guidelines paid "insufficient attention to the systemic and structural dimensions of racism". As a result, we have ended up with an emphasis on American critical multicultural education, critical race theory, and culturally responsive teaching in the review's recommendations. /1