What does it mean to be Irish? Children's construction of national identity1

Waldron, Fionnuala; Pike, Susan

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“…Gaelic games provide an important focus for Irish young people's perceptions of national identity (Waldron & Pike, 2006). This is perhaps heightened by an absence of a significant international aspect to Gaelic games, although there is a North American County Board of the GAA which promotes the related games in the US.…”

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Lifestyles and gendered patterns of leisure and sporting interests among Irish adolescents

MacPhail

Collier

O’Sullivan

2009

Sport, Education and Society

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This paper strives to provide an insight into the multifaceted relationships that young people have, examining the social, cultural and institutional discourses which shape their lives. We set out to discuss, from an empirical poststructuralist perspective, the way in which Irish adolescents write about the reality of their lives and privilege certain practices and forms of subjectivity. We are particularly interested in the role and significance of physical activity in the lives of young people, asking what institutional and cultural discourses are brought into play to construct particular identities and social practices associated with leisure and sporting interests. In an effort to generate more complex understandings of patterns of leisure and sporting interests, we combine two forms of analysis to explore the hows (discourse analysis) and whats (content analysis) of the narratives (Smith & Sparkes, 2005). This paper focuses on a purposeful sample of 168 written narratives of Irish post-primary students (14 to 17 years of age), chosen to represent the gender of students, a range of rural and urban school locales from different geographic locations and single-sex and co-educational schools. We focus on the interrelationships between (1) school, (2) family and friends, (3) community -localism and tradition, (4) commodification and globalisation, (5) popular culture, (6) paid employment, and (7) gendered patterns of leisure and sporting interests. The family is a strong focal point for these young people as are their friends and being part of a community. The young people (boys in particular) are significant consumers of 'media sport' and both girls and boys were knowledgeable of national and international politics. We also comment on the extent to which Lifestyles and gendered patterns of leisure and sporting interests among Irish adolescents 2 female and male adolescents negotiate, similarly or differently, culturally dominant discourses within physical activity and sport, with significantly more boys choosing to write about physical activity and sport in their narratives.

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Lifestyles and gendered patterns of leisure and sporting interests among Irish adolescents

MacPhail

Collier

O’Sullivan

2009

Sport, Education and Society

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“…As previous researcher have found (Waldron and Pike, 2006), I noticed that bringing up issues of mobility often challenged children's ideas about national identifications, and particularly about the role of place of birth in the construction of national identities. When I presented the children with questions such as "What would happen if Bubbly comes to Earth, what would it be?"…”

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“…In a similar study, Waldron and Pike (2006) conducted qualitative research on what it meant to be Irish. The study was conducted with 119 children aged 10-11 in five primary schools in Ireland.…”

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“…Based on other studies that have used imaginative response to engage children in research activities (Carrington and Short, 1995;Koh, 2010;Waldron and Pike, 2006), I presented children with the task to explain to someone unfamiliar with Earth how they understood various conceptsamong them national identifications. More specifically, I modeled the focus group interview protocols after Krott and Nicoladis' (2005) Alien Puppet Interview (API).…”

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“…In addition, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that about 46% of the 16.7 million refugees worldwide are children (2013). 1 As the mobility of young people across nations increases, researchers have pointed out that development of healthy national identifications in children and youth has important implications for the construction of democratic citizenries in culturally and linguistically diverse societies (Banks, 2008;Osler, 2010;Waldron and Pike, 2006).…”

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2015

Research in Comparative and International Education

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The development of healthy national identifications in children and youth has important implications for the construction of democratic citizenries in culturally and linguistically diverse societies. In this comparative qualitative case study of two multicultural public schools-one in the United States and one in Costa Rica-I examined children's understandings of national identity formation. I conducted individual and focus group interviews and ethnographic observations for 12 weeks in each school. I found that children conceptualized national identity using both concrete and abstract elements. In addition, children in each school deployed particular types of narratives to talk about national identifications. Although children in both schools reported ideas of "civic nationality," children in the US school were more likely to express ideas of "ethnic nationality" (Hoyos et al., 2004). Further, children in the US school reported more cosmopolitan perspectives toward national identity than the children in the Costa Rican School. Based on the findings, I suggest expanding research to study the "national identity maps" of children in multicultural contexts.

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What does it mean to be Irish? Children's construction of national identity1

Cited by 30 publications

References 24 publications

Lifestyles and gendered patterns of leisure and sporting interests among Irish adolescents

Lifestyles and gendered patterns of leisure and sporting interests among Irish adolescents

Children’s national identity in multicultural classrooms in Costa Rica and the United States

Anthems in Middle Childhood: Negotiating Musical Experiences and National Identities

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