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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
Adolescents' Perceptions of National Identification and Socialization: A Grounded Analysis
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Muldoon, Orla T.; McLaughlin, Katrina; Trew, Karen – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
This paper examines the perceived influence of parents and family and the construction of national and religious identification amongst adolescents theoretically sampled from along the border between the Irish Republic and the Northern Ireland. Two hundred and sixty-one young people wrote essays on the meaning of their national identity and the…
Descriptors: Socialization, Nationalism, Student Attitudes, Identification (Psychology)
Reconciling the differences
Symon, Roger – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1975
Author reported on a community in Northern Ireland where religion is no longer a dirty word. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Catholics, Conflict Resolution, Problem Solving, Protestants