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Deirdre Raftery; Catriona Delaney – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
This article discusses oral history sources that give insight into how a specific group of teaching sisters (also known as nuns or women religious) reflect on their primary identity as vowed women, and their professional identity as teachers. Their identity was bound up with the fact that they had taken religious vows, and entered a congregation…
Descriptors: Nuns, Catholic Educators, Religious Education, Educational History
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O'Donoghue, Thomas Anthony – History of Education, 2020
From the mid-1960s, the teaching force in Catholic schools in Ireland that for so long had been composed primarily of members of religious orders began to change as a large number returned to the secular world and recruitment levels dropped rapidly. Concurrently there was an outpouring of order-focused hagiographic works. During the 1980s, a range…
Descriptors: Females, Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators
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Meehan, Amalee; Laffan, Derek A. – Journal of Religious Education, 2021
The Irish religious landscape is changing. Census data reveal that the percentage of those who identify as Catholic is in steady decline, while the proportion of those with no religion continues to rise. Christian religious practice in Ireland is also decreasing, especially among young people. Catholic schools, once the dominant provider of second…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Religious Education, Catholics, Christianity
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Kieran, Patricia; Mullally, Aiveen – Journal of Religious Education, 2021
This article overviews the contemporary context for teaching Religious Education (RE) in Ireland and profiles changing religious demographics in an increasingly secular context. It presents the findings of a two-year mixed-methods study undertaken in two third-level Catholic colleges in Ireland, investigating four hundred third-level Initial…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholics, Religious Colleges, Foreign Countries
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Kowalski, Monica J.; Tiernan, Jonathan; McGraw, Sean D. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article provides a comparative examination of teachers' experiences of both participating in Catholic teacher education programmes and teaching within Catholic schools in the Republic of Ireland and the United States. This mixed-methods study consisted of surveys and interviews with 22 teachers who are graduates of both Irish and US teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Catholic Educators, Institutional Mission, Catholic Schools
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Raftery, Deirdre; Delaney, Catriona; Bennett, Deirdre – History of Education, 2019
This article examines some of the legacy of the Irish education pioneer Nano Nagle, foundress of the Presentation congregation of nuns. The congregation spread rapidly in the nineteenth century, not only in Ireland but also in Newfoundland, India, England, Tasmania, Australia and continental North America. This year, Presentation schools globally…
Descriptors: Nuns, Educational History, Catholic Schools, Biographies
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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
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Collins, Jenny – History of Education, 2015
Irish Catholic teaching sisters were major actors in the development of education systems in New World countries such as the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Immigrants themselves, they faced a number of key challenges as they sought to adapt Old World cultural and educational ideas to the education of the immigrant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nuns, Educational History, Immigrants
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O'Connell, Noel – American Annals of the Deaf, 2017
The author explicates the life story of Anne Smyth, a deaf teacher in 19th-century Ireland. The story was written and published in 1858 by another deaf teacher, Charlotte Mary Kelly, who traced Anne Smyth's life trajectory from her birth to the day she began life in a deaf school until her untimely death at the age of 18 years. The study examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Teacher Characteristics, Teachers
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Heinz, Manuela; Davison, Kevin; Keane, Elaine – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
There has been extensive research internationally describing teachers' homogenous socio-demographic backgrounds and critiquing the associated equity and diversity issues, most especially with regard to ethnicity and gender, and to a lesser extent, social class and disability. Yet, teachers' religious affiliations and/or convictions have rarely…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Religion, Elementary School Teachers, Religious Education
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O'Donoghue, Tom; Harford, Judith – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
Over the last three decades, there has been a burgeoning of research on teacher identity. While the various bodies of work produced are very valuable, further lines of enquiry need to be pursued in order to take account of the complexities involved. This paper on the conception, construction, and maintenance of the identity of Roman Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Raftery, Deirdre – History of Education, 2013
This article examines the biographies and personal records of nineteenth-century Catholic nuns who worked in education, with a view to determining how they reconciled their individuality with the demands of religious life. Their resistance to rules, and the ways in which they wrestled with the vow of obedience, is examined. The roles of the Novice…
Descriptors: Catholics, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Educational History
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O'Donoghue, Tom; Harford, Judith – History of Education, 2013
A body of scholarship on the history of the lives of Catholic teaching sisters has thrown up various challenges to educational historians. One challenge can be posed by asking how teaching sisters were able to go on to take up leadership positions. This is prompted by the observation that a particular body of literature for the period 1940-1965…
Descriptors: Nuns, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools
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Raftery, Deirdre; Nowlan-Roebuck, Catherine – History of Education, 2007
This paper gives an overview of the educational climate in which schools established by Catholic teaching orders of women were founded, and then moves to a close examination of the unusual position of "convent" schools that applied to join the non-denominational National System. In an attempt to provide a particularly close analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Catholic Schools, Womens Education
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Salm, Luke – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2007
The Brothers of the Christian Schools, popularly known in the United States as Christian Brothers, have made numerous significant contributions to the development of Catholic education. Building and staffing schools, colleges, and orphanages, producing textbooks and catechetical materials, advocating for the poor, and creating new models of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholics, Males, Catholic Educators
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