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View article: Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society Open
Community museums can be contested sites for learning as they often communicate clear, subjective narratives that challenge mainstream ideas of the past by introducing knowledge that they know to be uncomfortable, rather than displaying mu…
View article: “But it wasn’t like that”: The impact of visits to community-based museums on young people’s understanding of the commemorated past in a divided society
“But it wasn’t like that”: The impact of visits to community-based museums on young people’s understanding of the commemorated past in a divided society Open
This article reports on the impact visits to community-based museums in a divided society, Northern Ireland, had on young people’s historical, political, and cultural understanding of the commemorated past. It examines the responses of two…
View article: <i>Our children can see that we aren’t the only wee school in the countryside:</i> can shared teachers offer solutions to the challenges facing rural primary schools in a divided society?
<i>Our children can see that we aren’t the only wee school in the countryside:</i> can shared teachers offer solutions to the challenges facing rural primary schools in a divided society? Open
This paper examines the experience of Shared Teachers (STs) who were employed on temporary contracts across school partnerships designed to enrich and integrate the educational experiences of children in primary schools in rural and religi…
View article: The contrasting place of political history in the primary curricula of Ireland, north and south: a comparative study
The contrasting place of political history in the primary curricula of Ireland, north and south: a comparative study Open
Based on a qualitative study of teachers, teacher educators and educational policy makers, this paper examines how political history is framed within national history curricula at primary level and practised within classrooms in Northern I…
View article: Psaltis, C., McCully, A., Agbaria, A., Makriyianni, C., Pingel, F., Karahasan, H., Carretero, M., Oguz, M., Choplarou, R., Philippou, S., Wagner, W. & Papadakis, Y. (2017). Recommendations for the History Teaching of Intergroup Conflicts. COST IS 1205 Working Group.
Psaltis, C., McCully, A., Agbaria, A., Makriyianni, C., Pingel, F., Karahasan, H., Carretero, M., Oguz, M., Choplarou, R., Philippou, S., Wagner, W. & Papadakis, Y. (2017). Recommendations for the History Teaching of Intergroup Conflicts. COST IS 1205 Working Group. Open
The way recent and old intergroup conflicts are presented around the world in curricula, textbooks, civil society and social representations can be characterised by four main approaches. In the first approach, a moratorium is imposed and a…
View article: History Teaching to Promote Positive Community Relations in Northern Ireland: Tensions Between Pedagogy, Social Psychological Theory and Professional Practice in Two Recent Projects
History Teaching to Promote Positive Community Relations in Northern Ireland: Tensions Between Pedagogy, Social Psychological Theory and Professional Practice in Two Recent Projects Open
In this chapter, the role of history teaching in promoting positive community relations in Northern Ireland is considered with specific reference to two publicly funded projects. The Northern Ireland context for history teaching is outline…
View article: A place for<i>fundamental (British) values</i>in teacher education in Northern Ireland?
A place for<i>fundamental (British) values</i>in teacher education in Northern Ireland? Open
This paper examines the distinctive locus of teacher education in Northern Ireland (NI) in respect of Fundamental British Values (FBV). It is written from the perspective of teacher education tutors in a PGCE programme that explicitly subs…