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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
The Governmentality of Reconciliation: Adult Education as a Community Relations Technique in Northern Ireland
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Smala, Simone – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
Despite a successfully negotiated peace agreement in Belfast in 1998, tensions between different community groups continue to exist in Northern Ireland. This situation creates a governmental need to find solutions to problems such as segregation, inter- and intra-group violence and other forms of sectarian antagonisms. On the one hand, this is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Relations, Conflict, Ethnicity
The Principal in Metropolitan Schools.
Erickson, Donald A., Ed.; Reller, Theodore L., Ed. – 1978
This collection of articles is designed to help metropolitan school principals meet the challenges of their positions. It is especially concerned with how principals can contribute to effective education for students of markedly heterogenous backgrounds. The authors deal with such issues as the principalship and metropolitan administration, the…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection