Description
Book SynopsisImmigration and schooling in Ireland addresses the impact of recent rapid social and economic change on the education system. It provides thought provoking analysis and fascinating insights into the complex and varied responses of principals, teachers, parents and children to working in newly-multi ethnic schools. -- .
Trade ReviewThis book opens up fresh dialogue among educators about how to practice inclusivity and foster participatory democracy in educational settings at a time of increasing immigration, deepening inequality, and fraught global politics... it tackles tough questions facing schools beyond Ireland’s borders including racism, multiculturalism, school choice, school governance, to name a few.
Professor Wendy Luttrell, Graduate School, CUNY
This landmark book explores the complex position of migrant children and parents within the Irish school system. Most significantly, the study views education within its wider political and historic context and accords a central role to the voices of the marginalized.
David Gillborn, Professor of Critical Race Studies, University of Birmingham
-- .
Table of Contents1. Setting the context
2. Shaping the nation: Power, identity and governance in Irish education
3. Capitals, markets and opportunities for immigrants in education
4. Leadership for diversity – moving beyond practical tolerance?
5. Who (se) normal? Teaching for diversity in newly multi-ethnic schools
6. Being in the shell? The perspectives of immigrant parents
7. It’s like living another life’: Migrant children’s perspectives
8. Making a difference? Facing the challenges, embracing the opportunities
