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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
Are Separate Schools Divisive? A Case Study from Northern Ireland
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Hughes, Joanne – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
In Northern Ireland, where the majority of children are educated at schools attended mainly by coreligionists, the debate concerning the role of schools in perpetuating intergroup hostilities has recently been reignited. Against questions regarding the efficacy of community relations policy in education, the research reported in this paper employs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Religious Conflict, Catholics