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Byrne, Richard; Devine, Dympna – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2018
The role of faith-based schools is increasingly debated within a context of school reform, rights and plurality in multi-ethnic societies. The Catholic schooling system in the Irish Republic (always referred to as Ireland in the text) represents an interesting case internationally because of the extent to which Catholic education is structurally…
Descriptors: Role, Religious Education, Social Justice, Models
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Devine, Dympna – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
This paper explores the leadership practices of three principals following a period of intensive immigration in Ireland. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, it conceptualises schools as structured social spaces and of their leadership work as a form of "practising". This practising is an outcome of the intersection between deeply embedded…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Principals, Cultural Pluralism, Leadership Responsibility
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Bryan, Audrey – London Review of Education, 2008
This article considers social and educational policy responses to increasing ethnic diversity in the Republic of Ireland and related concerns about the intensification of racism in Irish society in the "Celtic Tiger" era. Drawing on approaches which emphasise the extent to which discourses on "race" and multiculturalism are…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy