1. Introduction 2. Teaching Citizenship: A Meta-Conversation 3. Northern Ireland Histories 4. Tinkering around the Edges : Northern Irelands Education System and Peacebuilding during the Troubles 5. Creating Educational Change in the PostGood Friday Era 6. Citizenship in the Classroom: The Elusive Implementation of the PostGood Friday Reforms 7. Lessons for Northern Ireland and Other Divided Societies
This book examines the possibilities and realities of promoting citizenship, peace, and reconciliation through schooling in divided and post-conflict societies.
Elizabeth Anderson Worden is Associate Professor of Education at American University in Washington, DC, and a visiting professor at Ulster University, Northern Ireland. She is the author of
National Identity and Education Reform: Contested Classrooms.
This book examines the possibilities and realities of promoting citizenship, peace, and reconciliation through schooling in divided and post conflict societies.
With specific attention to the case of Northern Ireland and the Local and Global Citizenship (LGC) initiative, the book investigates the faltering progress to develop and teach school curricula aimed at promoting citizenship as well as peace, tolerance, and mutual understanding. Following an overview of the scholarship on citizenship education, the author provides a broad social and political historical context within which to understand the educational reforms and changes that have taken place in Northern Ireland, highlighting various education initiatives of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s that sought to foster understanding of the other and promote reconciliation. The books focus then shifts to the implementation of LGC, which began in 2007. Despite initially strong political support and a consilc/
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