ERIC Number: EJ1102538
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0260-7476
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A Place for "Fundamental (British) Values" in Teacher Education in Northern Ireland?
McCully, Alan; Clarke, Linda
Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, v42 n3 p354-368 2016
This paper examines the distinctive locus of teacher education in Northern Ireland (NI) in respect of Fundamental British Values (FBV). It is written from the perspective of teacher education tutors in a PGCE programme that explicitly subscribes to pursuing the Shared Future agenda as outlined by NI Government policy in 2005. First, it establishes the inappropriateness of pursuing an FBV agenda in NI where the historical and contemporary context has been characterised by division expressed through opposing British and Irish identities; and, emerging from conflict where future political progress requires greater accommodation between these two often hostile positions. Second, using data from a previous Teaching and Learning Research Programme study (2005) on Values in Teacher Education as an indicator of student teacher social and political attitudes, it draws on later NI census (2011) and Life and Times Survey data (2005 and 2008) to identify the challenges and opportunities facing teacher educators wishing to encourage a more nuanced awareness among student teachers as to how identity issues impact on education. Finally, one teacher education initiative designed for this purpose is examined and its approaches offered as a means that Initial Teacher Education might contribute to producing teachers better equipped to contribute to a more accommodating society in NI in the future.
Descriptors: Values, Teacher Education, Political Attitudes, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Futures (of Society), Conflict, Census Figures, Surveys, Teacher Educators, Correlation, Nationalism, Political Influences, National Security, Islam, Peace, Standards, Educational Policy, Protestants, Catholics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
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