integrated education resources

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Free Online Literature:

• Doone, G. (2018). Grace Doone. In A. De La Torre & L. Johnston (Eds.), There Were No Desks (pp. 46-52). NICIE.  

• Early, E., Devine, P., Liu, M.-C., & Schubotz, D. (2023). Report on Research Methods for Assessing Demand for Integrated Education in Northern Ireland 

• Fraser, G., & Morgan, V. (1999). In the Frame. Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: the implications of expansion. U. o. Ulster. 

• Gallagher, T., Smith, A., & Montgomery, A. (2003). Integrated Education in Northern Ireland. Participation, Profile and Performance. 

• Griffith, O. (2018). Olwen Griffith. In A. De La Torre & L. Johnston (Eds.), There Were No Desks. NICIE.  

• Hansson, U., O'Connor Bones, U., & McCord, J. (2013). Integrated education: a review of policy and research evidence 1999 - 2012 

• Hansson, U. O. C.-B., Una; McCord, John. (2013). Whatever happened to Integrated Education? Shared Space, 15, 47-61.  

• Johnston, L. (2000). The Impact of Integrated Education on Students’ Tolerance of Diversity (Integrated_Education.pdf (ulster.ac.uk)

• Johnston, L. (2001). The Practice of Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: The Teachers’ Perspective

• Loughrey, D., Kidd, S., & Carlin, J. (2003). Integrated Primary Schools and Community Relations in Northern Ireland. The Irish Journal of Education/Iris Éireannach an Oideachais, 34, 30-46.  

• Marriott, S. (2001). Polite Encounters? Integrated primary schools and community relations (

• McCarron, J. (2013). Shared Education within Northern Ireland: A Grounded Theory Study of Integrated Education, [Nottingham Trent]. 

• McGlynn, C. (2011). Negotiating Differences in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland: An Analysis of Approaches to Integrated Education. Multicultural Perspectives, 13(1), 16-22.  

• McGonigle, J., Smith, A., & Gallagher, T. (2003). Integrated Education in Northern Ireland. The Challenge of Transformation. U. U. UNESCO Centre

• Niens, U., & Cairns, E. (2008). Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: A Review. In D. C. Berliner & H. Kupermintz (Eds.), Fostering Change in Institutions, Environments, and People. Routledge.  

• Milliken, J. (2003). The organisational structure, dynamics and strategy of integrated education in Northern Ireland, Queen’s University, Belfast]. 

• Morgan, V., Fraser, G., Dunn, S., & Cairns, E. (1993). A New Order of Co-operation and Involvement?: relationships between parents and teachers in the integrated schools. Educational Review, 45(1), 43-52.  

• NICIE. (2008). Statement of Principles. In NICIE (Ed.).

• Together, A. C. (1976). ACT on shared schools.

• Topping, M., Cavanagh, C. M., & Northern Ireland. Department of Education. (2016). Integrating Education in Northern Ireland : Celebrating Inclusiveness and Fostering Innovation in our Schools : The Report of the Independent Review of Integrated Education. Department of Education,. 

• Wardlow, M. (2013). Essentially Christian in character? Ethos in integrated schools]. 

• Zembylas, M., Bekerman, Z., McGlynn, C., & Ferreira, A. (2009). Teachers' Understanding of Reconciliation and Inclusion in Mixed Schools of Four Troubled Societies. Research in Comparative and International Education,4(4), 406-422. 

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• Abbott, L., & McGuinness, S. (2022). Change management in Northern Ireland's transformed integrated schools: what we want is a school where you can be who you are and it's a safe place. Northern Ireland pupils transcend cultural difference through transformed integrated schools: we don't think about religion when we're passing the ball, we just do it. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 26(6), 576-591.  

• Ben-Nun, M. (2013). The 3Rs of integration: respect, recognition and reconciliation; concepts and practices of integrated schools in Israel and Northern Ireland. Journal of Peace Education, 10(1).  

• Blaylock, D., Hughes, J., Wölfer, R., & Donnelly, C. (2018). Integrating Northern Ireland: Cross-group friendships in integrated and mixed schools. British Educational Research Journal, 44(4), 643-662.  

• Collins, J. (1992). Democratic Unionist Party/Sinn Fein attitudes to Integrated Education in the North of Ireland. British Journal of Religious Education, 14(2), 107-113. 

• DENI. (2017). Integration Works: Transforming your school. DENI

• Díez, F., & Quinn, J. (2015). Reformas educativas en los acuerdos de paz. Red de Educación para la Paz y los Derechos Humanos.  

• Donnelly, C. (1998). Governance and Ethos: Case Studies from the Primary School Sector in Northern Ireland, University of Ulster]. 

• Donnelly, C. (2004). Constructing the ethos of tolerance and respect in an integrated school: the role of teachers. British Educational Research Journal, 30(2), 263-278.  

• Hayes, B. C., McAllister, I., & Dowds, L. (2007). Integrated Education, Intergroup Relations, and Political Identities in Northern Ireland. Social Problems.  

• Lambe, K. (2013). All-ability Education in Northern Ireland. In C. McGlynn, M. Zembylas, & Z. Bekerman (Eds.), Integrated Education in Conflicted Societies (pp. 79-91). Palgrave Macmillan.  

• McGlynn, C. N., Ulrike; Cairns, Ed.; Hewstone, Miles. (2004). Moving out of conflict: the contribution of integrated schools in Northern Ireland to identity, attitudes, forgiveness and reconciliation. Journal of Peace Education.

• McGuinness, S., Abbott, L., & Cassidy, F. (2013). Northern Ireland. Some post-conflict challenges in education. In S. R. P. Clarke & T. A. O'Donoghue (Eds.), School Level Leadership in Post-conflict Societies: The importance of context. Routledge.  

• Morgan, V., & Dunn, S. (1992). Headteachers in a new context: Integrated schools in Northern Ireland. Cambridge Journal of Education, 22(2), 215-227.  

• Morgan, V., Dunn, S., Cairns, E., & Fraser, G. (1993). How do parents choose a school for their child? An example of the exercise of parental choice. Educational Research, 35(2), 139-148.  

• Morgan, V., Fraser, G., Dunn, S., & Cairns, E. (1992). Parental Involvement in Education how do parents want to become involved. Educational Studies, 18(1), 11-20.  

• Morgan, V., Fraser, G., Dunn, S., & Cairns, E. (1992). Views from Outside — other Professionals’ Views of the Religiously Integrated Schools in Northern Ireland. British Journal of Religious Education, 14(3), 169-177.  

• Niens, U., & Cairns, E. (2005). Conflict, Contact, and Education in Northern Ireland. Theory into Practice, 44(4), 337-344.  

• Roulston, S., & Hansson, U. (2021). Kicking the can down the road? Educational solutions to the challenges of divided societies: a Northern Ireland case study. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 42(2), 170-183.  

• Smith, A. (2001). Religious Segregation and the Emergence of Integrated Schools in Northern Ireland. Oxford Review of Education, 27(4), 559-575.