ERIC Number: EJ1408045
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-4985
EISSN: EISSN-1465-3915
Using GIS to Analyse Early Years Provision in Northern Ireland -- Adding Another Year of Segregated Education?
Oxford Review of Education, v50 n1 p42-59 2024
Early years education is offered free to all three-year-olds in Northern Ireland, prior to starting primary school, and most parents take advantage of this offer for their children. An experience of early years education has been shown to considerably improve life chances and to be important in starting the process of building a shared society, particularly important in a divided society emerging from conflict such as Northern Ireland. This paper will examine the degree to which that provision is segregated using GIS analysis and explore the factors which influence those divisions within the wider context of a deeply segregated system of education. Pre-school education in Northern Ireland is found to be highly segregated by community background, and there is a tendency for pre-schools to be more segregated than the areas in which they are located. This may exacerbate existing divisions within education and adding a further year of segregated education may provide a further impediment to building a shared future for communities in Northern Ireland.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Information Systems, Early Childhood Education, School Segregation, Preschool Education, School Location, Religion, Residential Patterns
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
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