History Education’s Responses to a Divided Community: the example of Northern Ireland

Alan McCully

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Abstract

This paper examines the response of the history curriculum, and history teaching, in Northern Ireland to the challenges posed by conflict, and post conflict reconciliation in the period, 1968-2001 and discusses the implications for other vsocieties emerging from conflict.
Original languageEnglish
JournalHistory in Teaching (Journal of the Society for Croatian History).
Volume2
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - Oct 2003

Bibliographical note

Reference text: Barton K.C., McCully A. (2003) ‘History Teaching and the Perpetuation of Memories: the Northern Ireland Experience’, Cairns E. and Roe M.D. The Role of memory in Ethnic Conflict, Basingstoke, Palgrave-MacMillan, pp. 105-123

Barton K.C, McCully A.W. and Conway M. (2004) ‘History and National Identity in Northern Ireland’, International Journal of History Learning, Teaching and Research, Vol. 3 no. 2

Gallagher C. (1986) ‘Irish History in the Classroom’ in DENI, Irish History in the classroom: Research, Resources and Realisation, Bangor, DENI.

McCully A., Hartop B. and Barton K.C. (2003) Teaching History in Societies Recently Emerged from Conflict: a report of a international seminar held in Coleraine, N.I., Sept. 2002, Coleraine, UNESCO Centre.

Murray D. (1985) Worlds Apart: Segregated Schools in Northern Ireland, Belfast, Appletree Press

O’Connor U., Hartop B. and McCully A. (2002) A Review of the Schools Community Relations Programme, Bangor, DE.

Keywords

  • History education
  • Conflict
  • Divided societies

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