Mancini, JoAnne (2022) ‘Children from these communities’: unequal school provision, segregation, and the Irish educational landscape. Irish Educational Studies. pp. 1-19. ISSN 0332-3315
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Abstract
This paper assesses equality in Irish post-primary education,
focusing on the provision of state-funded education and
specifically on the provision of schools not segregated by
religion, gender, or the charging of fees. Using the concept of the
educational landscape, it integrates a macro-micro perspective
that combines an analysis of national data generated by the
Central Statistics Office and the Department of Education and
Skills with a case study in Dublin. It shows that educational
provision is far from equal in Ireland. Outside of Irish cities, it is
largely the norm for the state to provide schools that do not
separate or exclude children on the basis of religion, gender, or
ability to pay. However, within Ireland’s cities, such provision is
much lower, and the educational landscape remains highly
segregated. Moreover, within Dublin, it is not only the provision
of inclusive (i.e. not segregated) post-primary facilities that is
unequal, but the provision of post-primary education more
generally. This spatially unequal educational investment may be
linked to other inequalities experienced by Dublin’s teenagers,
with children in areas of low and segregated school provision
spending a disproportionately large share of their time travelling
to school compared to children in areas of higher state investment.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Equality; segregation; gender; religion; education; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History |
Item ID: | 18357 |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03323315.2022.2118152 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Joanne Mancini |
Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2024 13:28 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Irish Educational Studies |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/18357 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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