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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
Reflections on Allen and West's Paper: "Religious Schools in London--School Admissions, Religious Composition and Selectivity"
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Grace, Gerald – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This paper is a reflection upon the research findings of Rebecca Allen and Anne West in relation to religious schools in London. While welcoming this contribution to the systematic study of faith schools (a neglected area of empirical inquiry), the paper argues that the use of "religious schools" as a unitary category is problematic for…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Urban Schools, Religious Organizations, Catholic Schools