Education for Citizenship and Diversity in Irish Contexts

How can children and young people be best educated to live as active citizens in the early years of the twenty-first century? That is a key question at the heart of Education for Citizenship and Diversity in Irish Contexts. This collaborative enterprise brings together academics and practitioners from Ireland north and south, who explore recent and future developments in education for citizenship, in a rapidly changing and increasingly diverse society. Curricular and out-of-school initiatives are explained and examined. Frameworks are presented to enable greater inclusion of diverse learners. The eighteen chapters comprise a blend of insights from pioneers in the field of citizenship education.

Education for Citizenship and Diversity in Irish Contexts offers an engaging range of practical suggestions, conceptual frameworks, critical analyses and policy challenges. The book will be of particular interest to teachers, youth and community workers, policy-makers and those who have an interest in the shifting contexts of modern Irish society.
 

CONTENTS

• Foreword v
  Andy Pollak, Director, Centre for Cross Border Studies
   
• Introduction 
  Gerry Jeffers, NUI Maynooth and Una O’Connor, University of Ulster Coleraine
   
• Chapter 1 Reflections on the Local and Global Citizenship Programme in Northern Ireland
  Alan McCully, University of Ulster, Coleraine
   
• Chapter 2 Some challenges for citizenship education in the Republic of Ireland
  Gerry Jeffers, NUI Maynooth
   
• Chapter 3 Good practice in citizenship education
  Tony Gallagher, Queen’s University, Belfast
   
• Chapter 4 The Spirit of Enniskillen 
  Chuck Richardson, Stranmillis University College, Belfast
   
• Chapter 5 Trócaire’s development education programme: a case study of NGO involvement in citizenship education
  Maria Barry, Trócaire
   
• Chapter 6 Building teacher capacity - Education for Reconciliation Project
  Marie Rooney, County Dublin Vocational Educational Committee
   
• Chapter 7 Laying the foundations: citizenship in the primary school
  Norman Richardson, Stranmillis University College, Belfast
   
• Chapter 8 The influence of school and policy contexts on the implementation of CSPE
  Jim Gleeson, University of Limerick
   
• Chapter 9 Civics revisited? An exploration of the factors affecting the implementation of Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE) in five post-primary schools
  Deirdre A. Murphy, St. John’s Secondary School, Ballyfermot
   
• Chapter 10 Changing practices within citizenship education classrooms
  Conor Harrison, City of Dublin VEC
   
• Chapter 11 Frameworks for responding to diversity in schools 
  Mary Gannon, City of Dublin VEC
   
• Chapter 12 New migrant communities and equity in education: approaches to strategic policy, a Northern Ireland case study
  Daniel Holder, Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council
   
• Chapter 13 Citizenship and diversity: special educational needs 
  Una O’Connor, University of Ulster Coleraine
   
• Chapter 14 Young people with disabilities: citizenship real or imaginary?
  Michael Shevlin, Trinity College, Dublin
   
• Chapter 15 Public achievement and active citizenship - an informal education model
  Paul J. Smyth, Director of Public Achievement (Northern Ireland)
   
• Chapter 16 The Action Project as a teaching/learning tool 
  Máirín Wilson, Church of Ireland College Rathmines
   
• Chapter 17 Living with contradictions: teenagers’ experiences of active citizenship and competitive individualism
  Majella McSharry, Dublin City University
   
• Chapter 18 Some educational issues raised in response to the Taskforce on Active Citizenship
  Tom Healy, Department of Edcuation and Science and Research Associate with Trinity College Dublin

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