The government has clearly indicated its support for not only maintaining, but indeed also
expanding, the number and the diversity of faith schools. The Green Paper (DfES 2001) …

Combining research that stretches across all of the social sciences and international case
studies, Elizabeth Crooke here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the …

This project aimed to undertake a sco** study of existent and potential research into the
relationship between education and conflict, peace building and post-conflict situations, both …

This study reports results of an empirical investigation of secondary students' conceptions of
history and identity in Northern Ireland. Interviews with 253 students from a variety of …

The level of political participation and civic engagement in a society can be seen as a
measure of the health of the democratic body politic. Its future and continuing well-being falls …

All societies contain ethnic divisions. Traditionally, education has acted to promote social
integration, but with the acknowledgement of diversity do we know which system best …

This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace
education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out. The discipline is …

Background Research on historical understanding has sometimes depicted adolescents
and adults as either appropriating or resisting particular narrative accounts, and resistance …

Societies which suffer from ethnic and political divisions are often characterised by patterns
of social and institutional separation, and sometimes these divisions remain even after …

As the integrated education movement in Northern Ireland passes its twenty‐first
anniversary, it is pertinent to explore the legacy of mixed Catholic and Protestant schooling …