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Direct linkThorburn, Malcolm – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
This discursive paper selectively reviews the empirical papers informing the major part of the special issue. In doing so it focuses particularly on issues which are apparent across many papers. One major point of contrast is the advanced state of marketisation in schools situated at the lower socioeconomic margins. This is relative to those…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Privatization, Educational Change, Health Education
Bowles, Richard; O'Sullivan, Mary – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Recent studies suggest school communities accept the goods and services of external providers uncritically. Considering the pivotal role played by teachers in curriculum and policy enactment, this paper explores how and why teachers in Ireland advocate for, and engage with, the services and resources of one particular external provider, the Gaelic…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Outsourcing, Elementary School Teachers, Athletic Coaches
Mooney Simmie, Geraldine; Edling, Silvia – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
The needs of a globalized economy are rapidly changing what is legitimated as school knowledge and values, and calling up new understandings of teachers' role in stimulating democratic spaces. We have termed this "Teachers' Democratic Assignment." We examine changing notions of teachers' democratic assignment in Ireland and Sweden using…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Democracy, Teacher Education, Educational Policy
Cahill, Kevin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This paper explores how classed identities are constituted through the socio-sartorial inscriptions of a working-class school and community in an Irish city in the twenty-first century. The data of the paper were generated through a wider three-year critical ethnography of a school community. The focus here is upon the identity work of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Working Class, Cultural Capital
Neary, Aoife; Gray, Breda; O'Sullivan, Mary – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
As legal structures for same-sex relationships are introduced in many contexts, the politics of sexuality are negotiated along religious/secular lines. Religious and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBT-Q) rights are pitted against one another such that LGBT-Q lives often assumed to be secular. Schools are crucibles of intermingling…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Teacher Characteristics
Cassidy, Anne – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
This paper focuses on the educative role of the farm in the development of relationships between young people and the homeplace they grew up on. The paper is based on qualitative interviews with a cohort of 30 Irish university students (15 men and 15 women) brought up on Irish family farms who would not become full-time farmers. The farm acts as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Farm Management, Place Based Education, Qualitative Research
