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Teaching on the Other Side: How Identity Affects the Capacity for Agency of Teachers Who Have Crossed the Community Divide in the Northern Ireland Educational System
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Milliken, Matthew; Bates, Jessica; Smith, Alan – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
The ethnic separation of the school system in Northern Ireland along Catholic and Protestant community lines limits opportunities for daily cross-community interaction between young people. Recent research has shown that, whilst the deployment pattern of teachers is largely consistent with this divide, a small proportion of teachers has diverted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Educators, Protestants, Teacher Background
Education in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement: Kabuki Theatre Meets "Danse Macabre"
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Gardner, John – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
The Good Friday Agreement (1998) between the UK and Irish governments, and most of the political parties in Northern Ireland, heralded a significant step forward in securing peace and stability for this troubled region of the British Isles. From the new-found stability, the previous fits and starts of education reform were replaced by a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Treaties, Educational Discrimination
Shared Education in Northern Ireland: School Collaboration in Divided Societies
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Gallagher, Tony – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
During the years of political violence in Northern Ireland many looked to schools to contribute to reconciliation. A variety of interventions were attempted throughout those years, but there was little evidence that any had produced systemic change. The peace process provided an opportunity for renewed efforts. This paper outlines the experience…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Cooperation, Protestants, Catholics
Education as a Mechanism for Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland
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Hayes, Bernadette C.; McAllister, Ian – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
How education systems operate in divided societies is an increasingly important question for academics and educational practitioners as well as for governments. The question is particularly pertinent in post-conflict societies, where education is a key mechanism for resolving conflict between divided communities. Using Northern Ireland as a case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict Resolution, Role of Education, Protestants
Puritan Intelligence: The Ideological Background to IQ
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White, John – Oxford Review of Education, 2005
Given well-known difficulties in justifying the Galtonian conception of intelligence as innate general intellectual capacity, a historical explanation is required of why this problematic notion became so prominent in Britain and in the USA in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Parallels are drawn between it and various features of the…
Descriptors: Protestants, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Genetics
'A Fraught Path'--Education as a Basis for Developing Improved Community Relations in Northern Ireland.
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Dunn, Seamus; Morgan, Valerie – Oxford Review of Education, 1999
States that the outbreak of violence in Northern Ireland in 1969 led to the examination of the role of segregated education in perpetuating divisions between Catholics and Protestants. Focuses on two approaches to bring children from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds together: (1) establishing programs within the denominationally segregated…
Descriptors: Catholics, Community Relations, Educational Change, Educational History