Choosing schools: explorations in post-primary school choice in an urban Irish working class community

This paper examines post-primary school choice processes in the urban Irish working-class community of Portown. Here, there is an awareness of hegemonic neoliberal ideals and how school choice becomes a significantly classed space characterised by market ideologies and structural inequality. This critical ethnography explored the world through participant observation, semi-structured interviews over a 3-year period. The data examined here are drawn specifically from investigations into school choice processes. It deploys identity theories as thinking tools to examine the classed nature of engagement with school choice markets. The findings delineate three distinct groups of choosers in this school community: passive transitioners, active choosers and second-schoolers. The findings of the study reveal the entwined and co-constructed nature of identity and social class as well as examining the role played by school choices and differential access to economic, cultural and social resources in these processes.     

‘They did things differently then’: diversity and challenge from Key Stage 1

This paper is based on the premise that controversial issues related to diversity are an important aspect of teaching and learning with all pupils. It was stimulated by a newspaper article which criticised teaching Key Stage 1 (5–7-year-old children) about Grace O'Malley, an Irish Queen. We argue that sixteenth century Anglo-Irish relations can be taught across all key stages and illustrate this through a detailed examination of how this was undertaken with Key Stage 1 pupils. To support our case we draw on literature related to diversity in a range of contexts and age groups.     

OUT-ing AIDS

Little is known about the relationship between the Irish gay press and the AIDS crisis during the 1980s. This article aims to fill this gap by presenting the findings of a study dealing with the AIDS epidemic in Ireland and how it was confronted through the alternative media platform of OUT magazine. Using issues of OUT, it argues that alternative media in Ireland were pivotal in generating vital public health information for the gay community, particularly when the mainstream press and Irish government were not providing the necessary resources. This article also highlights the activist potential of alternative media such as OUT, as it engaged with public bodies in an attempt to hold them accountable for their response, or lack thereof, to the epidemic. The Irish gay press is thus an important example of how alternative media are critical when mainstream society ignores a particular group’s public health needs.     

Precision teaching through Irish: effects on isolated sight word reading fluency and contextualised reading fluency

The current study examines the impact of a three-week precision teaching (PT) intervention programme through the Irish language on a group of primary school pupils’ Irish reading fluency. The study employed a mixed factorial experimental design. Thirty-six Irish primary school pupils who were learning Irish as a second language were recruited for this study. Participants were divided evenly into two groups: experimental and control (N?=?18). Participants completed tests of isolated sight word reading fluency and contextualised reading fluency before and after the PT intervention programme. The experimental group was exposed to the PT programme, which focused on isolated Irish vocabulary, while the control group experienced typical teaching of Irish. The results of a one-way multivariate analysis of variance and a series of dependent-samples t-tests revealed that in contrast to the control group, the experimental group exhibited a significant increase in both isolated sight word reading fluency and contextualised reading fluency following the intervention. This study emphasises the potential value of utilising PT to aid second language learning, not only for increasing isolated sight word reading fluency, but also for enhancing contextualised reading fluency.     

爱尔兰特色高等教育的分析及借鉴

文章以爱尔兰高等教育体系的特点出发,分析了其以学生为中心的办学理念、以德育教育为引领的教学环境、以支柱产业为导向的人才定位、以理论联系实际为路径的人才培养体系、以创新创业为抓手的创新教育、以教学质量为主轴的保障体系,以上教学特色的分析对于促进我国高校跻身于世界一流大学的建设、深化高等教育教学保障体系的构建、推进高校产学研深度合作的进度等方面具有较高的借鉴意义。     

“A community of common descent”: Planning the documentation of diaspora through the Electronic Irish Research Experience

ABSTRACT

In 2014, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library at the University of Montana–Missoula was awarded a one-year National Leadership planning grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to explore the development of EIRE, the Electronic Irish Research Experience. EIRE was conceived as a digital humanities project to address gaps in the scholarship on the Irish in the United States by bringing private and institutional archival collections together online. Throughout the planning year, the Mansfield Library and its partners refined the scope of EIRE, prioritized certain aspects of the project over others, and grappled with questions of sustainability, accessibility, and resource allocation. This article shares our vision, process, results, and lessons learned.     

奥尼尔悲剧特色论

美国戏剧大师尤金·奥尼尔站在爱尔兰家庭传统的立场上,接受了希腊神话中的悲剧意识、尼采和弗洛伊德的思想与存在主义的学说,并根据自己的人生体验,以悲剧的形式完美地表达了他对人与人性、人类命运和人类精神的探求,从而形成了自己的悲剧特色。     

叶芝诗歌中贵族主义精神的来源和发展

爱尔兰诗人叶芝和他同时代的现代主义很多诗人们借助传统中的贵族主义精神克服时代精神的危机,叶芝诗歌中的贵族气也最为明显.贵族气很大方面是来自叶芝所属民族爱尔兰古老的贵族文化传统,这是目前学界所不大注意的.纵观叶芝的诗歌创作,如果将之划分为前、中、后三个时期来看,他的贵族风格的诗和精神都有阶段性相应的变化.而且是一个逐渐由...     

爱尔兰移民的定居模式与美国的城市问题(1820-1860)

内战前爱尔兰移民大量涌入美国,其中多数选择在城市中定居下来。这种定居模式是多种因素共同起作用的结果,既有经济上的因素,又有文化上的因素。爱尔兰移民蜂拥而至,对美国城市产生了前所未有的冲击:加剧了美国原有的城市问题。本文试就内战前爱尔兰移民的定居模式与美国城市问题之前的关系进行一番探讨,以企加深对内战前爱尔兰移民及其内战前美国社会的认识。     

当代爱尔兰女诗人努拉·尼·古诺的诗歌创作

努拉·尼·古诺是当代专用爱尔兰语(凯尔特语/盖尔语)创作并专注本土文化的爱尔兰诗人中声名卓著的一位。她在现代诗歌创作中重振爱尔兰语的成就,倍受褒扬。本文旨在简介诗人努拉·尼·古诺并分析她诗歌创作的特点。