welcome to the celtic tiger? teacher responses to immigration and increasing ethnic diversity in Irish schools

Devine, Dympna

doi:10.1080/09620210500200131

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“…As was noted above prior research has highlighted both the role of the state in shaping discourses about belonging (Devine, 2005;Tormey, 2006;Bryan, 2010;Kitching, 2010) and the role of school, academic and broader cultural, political and economic factors (Devine and Kelly, 2006;Devine, 2009) in providing resources or capital which are used in the identity construction process. The research team collected data on some educational processes and were able to ascertain their association with levels of social distance.…”

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“…The state is clearly an important player in articulating "legitimate" notions of identity (Tormey, 2006) that frame the rights of children in immigrant families (Devine, 2005(Devine, /2009. At the same time, context is important (Gleeson, 2010) and the discourses (plural) articulated by different arms of the state are but one set of resources that can be drawn upon in the process of constructing and regulating identity and boundary maintenance in schools.…”

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“…For Tovey et al (1989, 9), ethnicity is a "symbolic meaning system, a way for a 'people' to organise social reality"; what O'Connell (1994, 113) describes as a meaning system in which the criteria for belonging to a particular group can be changed and adapted over time as new meanings become associated with particular cultural markers or tokens in particular contexts and times. This process of identity and group formation is intrinsically linked to power (Devine, 2005;Bryan, 2010). Through the symbolic construction of "in" and "out" groups, access to resources and to social power is restricted to those who are deemed to be "insiders".…”

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“…[sic] as well as the role of school, academic systems, broader cultural systems, as well as legislative and economic structures (Devine, 2005;Devine and Kelly, 2006;Devine, 2009, Bryan, 2010Kitching, 2010) in providing resources or capital which are used in the identity construction process. Resulting attitudes are both the product of local processes of identity construction and of resources that is used by young people in such processes.…”

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Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities

Tormey

Gleeson

2012

Irish Educational Studies

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2 Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities AbstractThe changing ethnic make-up of Irish society has impacted upon schools. Existing, largely qualitative studies have highlighted mixed attitudes towards ethnic minorities. Literature has also focussed on the role of the state in articulating a discourse that shapes school-level responses to minorities. This paper critiques the idea of a unitary state discourse and the role of other educational bodies, such as schools, in drawing upon a range of alternate public discourses to shape how they act, is identified. Drawing upon a large quantitative study involving 4,970 post-primary pupil respondents, this paper finds that many Irish post-primary students report low levels of social distance from Black African Immigrants, Muslims, and Eastern Europeans. Negative attitudes are most prevalent with respect to members of the Travelling community. The potential positive impact of school-level programmes -such as those related to global justice and inequalities -is identified through the lower levels of negative attitudes towards ethnic minorities reported by Transition year students who have experienced such programmes.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities

Tormey

Gleeson

2012

Irish Educational Studies

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“…Variation has also been found in the school experiences of different national or ethnic groups (see Devine 2005;Nowlan 2008). However, because of a lack of national data, very little is currently known at the national level about how immigrant students are distributed across Irish schools, and whether schools which have immigrant students differ from those who have not.…”

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Immigration and school composition in Ireland

Byrne

McGinnity

Smyth

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Irish Educational Studies

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In the last decade, Ireland has experienced a rapid increase in immigration on a scale previously unknown in the country's history. Over this time, Ireland has been transformed to an increasingly heterogeneous country in terms of nationality, language, ethnicity and religious affiliation. These changes have also impacted on the composition of Irish schools. The article draws on data collected for a large-scale study of primary and second level school provision for immigrant students. The findings indicate the absence of the degree of school segregation found in many European countries, mainly due to the geographical dispersal of the immigrant population and the wide variety of national groups represented. However, the interaction between geographical location, parental choice of schools and school admissions criteria means that immigrant students are overrepresented in larger schools, schools located in urban areas and those with a socio-economically disadvantaged intake.

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Official Literacy Practices Co‐Construct Racialized Bodies: Three Key Ideas to Further Integrate Cultural and ‘Racially Literate’ Research

Kitching¹

2013

International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning, and Culture

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welcome to the celtic tiger? teacher responses to immigration and increasing ethnic diversity in Irish schools

Cited by 98 publications

References 14 publications

Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities

Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities

Immigration and school composition in Ireland

Official Literacy Practices Co‐Construct Racialized Bodies: Three Key Ideas to Further Integrate Cultural and ‘Racially Literate’ Research

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