Growing Up In A Divided Society The Influence of Conflict on Belfast Schoolchildren

by Byrne, Sean

• ISBN13: 9780838636558
• ISBN10: 0838636551
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Summary

A semiprojective, parapolitical story-telling method was used to determine how children define and evaluate political situations and to imagine how behavior would occur in certain political situations. The recorded interviews were analyzed by applying qualitative and quantitative methodological techniques.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	9	(2)
Acknowledgments	11	(4)
1. Children in a Global Context	15	(7)
2. The Historical World of Children in Belfast, Northern Ireland	22	(37)
3. Political Learning and Children	59	(21)
4. Children in a Troubled City	80	(15)
5. How Children Think and Feel about Conflict and Its Resolution	95	(38)
6. How Children Think and Feel about Political Authority Figures	133	(48)
7. Putting Children's Wisdom into Practice	181	(12)
Appendix 1: History of Education in Northern Ireland	193	(6)
Appendix 2: Tables	199	(8)
Appendix 3: Research Instrument	207	(1)
Notes	208	(4)
Bibliography	212	(14)
Index	226