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Teaching across the Divide: Perceived Barriers to the Movement of Teachers across the Traditional Sectors in Northern Ireland
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Milliken, Matthew; Bates, Jessica; Smith, Alan – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
The community separation of the school system in Northern Ireland limits opportunities for daily cross-community interaction between young people. The deployment pattern of teachers is largely consistent with this divide. Pupils are therefore unlikely to be taught by a teacher from a community background other than their own. Nonetheless, recent…
Descriptors: Barriers, Faculty Mobility, Foreign Countries, Professional Identity
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