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"Our Children Can See That We Aren't the Only Wee School in the Countryside": Can Shared Teachers Offer Solutions to the Challenges Facing Rural Primary Schools in a Divided Society?
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Bates, Jessica; McCully, Alan – Irish Educational Studies, 2021
This paper examines the experience of Shared Teachers (STs) who were employed on temporary contracts across school partnerships designed to enrich and integrate the educational experiences of children in primary schools in rural and religiously diverse areas in Northern Ireland, as part of a specific Shared Education Programme. In a society…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Elementary School Teachers, School Segregation
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
Education Policies and Teacher Deployment in Northern Ireland: Ethnic Separation, Cultural Encapsulation and Community Cross-Over
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Milliken, Matthew; Bates, Jessica; Smith, Alan – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
Education is a key mechanism for the restoration of inter-community relations in post-conflict societies. The Northern Ireland school system remains divided along sectarian lines. Much research has been conducted into the efficacy of initiatives developed to bring children together across this divide but there has been an absence of studies into…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teacher Distribution, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences