ERIC Number: EJ1338927
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 23
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ISSN: EISSN-2631-9713
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'I'm Not Catholic and I'm Not Protestant': Identity, Individualisation and Challenges for History Education in Northern Ireland
History Education Research Journal, v18 n2 p126-147 2021
Teaching sensitive histories in post-conflict societies makes particular demands on educators to understand students' identities and their relationships to the past. This paper expands our understanding of post-conflict youth identities and experiences of history education through a small-scale study of students' life stories in Northern Ireland which defied sectarian boundaries in different ways: some were children of interfaith marriages, while others attended integrated schools or were part of cross-community peace-building organisations. Participants saw themselves as forging new identities and 'moving on' from the past, although this process was fraught with ambivalence. I describe these expressions of identity through Ulrich Beck's (1992) model of triple individualisation. For these 'postsectarian' students, school history was seen largely as a tool towards achieving qualification, far removed from their everyday struggles of self-fashioning.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Barriers, Student Characteristics, Background, Identification (Psychology), Religion, Protestants, Catholics, Social Influences, Politics of Education, High School Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
UCL Press. University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT; e-mail: uclpresspublishing@ucl.ac.uk; Web site: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/pages/history-education-research-journal
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
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