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Educational cooperation on the island of Ireland : a thousand flowers and a hundred heartaches

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Author(s)
Pollak, Andy 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2150
Date Issued
2006
Date Available
08T15:22:38Z July 2010
Abstract
Cooperation and exchanges across the Irish border between schools, teachers and youth groups have seen an extraordinary growth in the past decade, involving nearly 20% of all schools on the island of Ireland in 2000. Major programmes such as the European Studies Project, Dissolving Boundaries and Civic-Link have been sustained over periods ranging from six to 18 years with the participation of hundreds of schools and youth groups in a range of programmes, with Wider Horizons (involving work experience abroad for mixed groups of young people) as the largest in scale. Medium-term sustainability is still a key issue, given most initiatives' dependence on non-exchequer funding (over 80% of funding comes from non-British or Irish government sources). Evaluations have spoken highly of the achievements of these programmes, both pedagogical and in terms of greater mutual understanding, but have also stressed that these are long-term initiatives, requiring secure funding and great patience and effort. Similar programmes to bring together young people in France and Germany after the Second World War took a generation to have a discernible impact.
Sponsorship
Other funder
Other Sponsorship
Special EU Programmes Body through the Higher Education Authority
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies
Series
IBIS Working Papers
59
MFPP Working Papers
9
Copyright (Published Version)
The author, 2006
Keywords
  • Ireland

  • Education

  • Cooperation

  • Exchange

Subject – LCSH
Inter-school cooperation--Ireland
Inter-school cooperation--Northern Ireland
Educational exchanges--Ireland
Educational exchanges--Northern Ireland
Education--Ireland
Education--Northern Ireland
Web versions
http://www.ucd.ie/ibis/filestore/wp2006/59/59_ap.pdf
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
Description
Revised version of a paper presented at the workshop “Pathways across the Irish border and the EU dimension” as part of the Mapping frontiers, plotting pathways: routes to North-South cooperation in a divided island programme, Institute of Technology, Dundalk, 29 June 2005
ISSN
1649-0304
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/
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