Schools and the politics of religion and diversity in the Republic of Ireland: separate but equal?
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Religion, identity and citizenship in schools: the Irish case -- Catholic viewpoints and democratic perspectives -- Notes -- 1 The...
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Manchester, [England]
Manchester University Press
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ireland
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/ Religion
/ School policy
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Education and state
Ireland
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Print version: Fischer, Karin: Schools and the Politics of Religion and Diversity in the Republic of Ireland : Separate But Equal?. - Manchester : Manchester University Press,c2016 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Religion, identity and citizenship in schools: the Irish case -- Catholic viewpoints and democratic perspectives -- Notes -- 1 The legacy of Catholic cultural nationalism and religious segregation -- School control and religious segregation, 1831-1922 -- Delegation of state educational responsibility to the Churches -- The 1937 Constitution: Catholic ideology and education -- Building/reproducing a Christian Irish society through education -- Notes -- 2 Social upheavals and discourses on Irish identity: the place of religion -- Social transitions and upheavals since the 1960s and the issue of identity -- Relative secularisation -- Cultural and religious diversity and immigration in the 1990s and 2000s -- New communitarian discourse and reassertion of Christian national identity -- From the Christian nation to the republican nation? -- Notes -- 3 Education policy and social, cultural and religious diversity: what role for schools? -- The 'mercantile paradigm' or the new driving force in education policy -- Cultural and religious dimensions marginalised? -- An abstract and limited celebration of pluralism in the 1990s -- The rhetorics of values or the implicit heritage of Christianity -- Towards some recognition of socio-cultural diversity and discrimination issues in the 2000s -- Teaching organisations and other educational actors on the need for a national policy -- The new intercultural discourse in education and the issue of religion -- Notes -- 4 Citizenship v. religion in the school curricula of the 2000s -- The overall message of the 1999 primary-school curriculum: between a new respect for diversity and a more traditional The State's promotion of religious identity in primary school -- Towards interculturalism in all school subjects - except religion -- A more inclusive school history -- Equality and pluralism at the heart of CSPE -- Religious instruction and integrated teaching in primary schools -- Religious education at secondary level: Christian but tolerant? -- Conclusion: on the importance of the educational context -- Notes -- 5 The 'national' school system: still denominational and private -- Structural permanence, limited change -- Religious decline and ways of retaining church control over schools and teacher-training -- The public debate of the 2000s: voices for change -- The Catholic Church -- or, how to have it both ways -- Fianna Fáil governments of the 2000s: living in denial -- Diversification, fragmentation and perpetuation -- Notes -- 6 Rights, segregation and discrimination -- Inclusion and equality in schools: preserving legal forms of discrimination -- A hierarchy of rights: the group(s) before the individual -- A hierarchy of rights: adults before children - ignoring children's rights -- Segregation and 'external' discrimination: communities versus community -- Discriminatory admission policies: the religious criterion -- Multidimensional school segregation -- Contradictory government policy on the dangers of school segregation -- Conclusion: for a new conception of the common school -- Notes -- 7 Schools, ethos and inclusion -- What use is an ethos? -- Ethos, power and inclusion: the democratic deficit of denominational schools -- What about Educate Together schools and the new Community National Schools? -- Denominational ethos and the management of religious diversity: dumbed-down inclusion -- Is a distinctive religious ethos a prerequisite for moral values in schools? -- Educate Together schools: counter-example and paradox Conclusion: children's rights and religious diversity - the case for philosophy in schools -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Gordian knot and republican solution -- International stakes and comparison -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Irish and English media -- Websites (for primary sources) -- Other primary source documents consulted (legislation, government publications, speeches, reports, textbooks, etc.) -- Books and articles -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1526101149 |