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- Title: Integrated Schools in Northern Ireland: Education for Peace and Reconciliation (Report)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 15, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 252 KB
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The core aim of integrated schools is to provide the child with a caring self-fulfilling educational experience which will enable him/her to become a fulfilled and caring adult. (Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education, 2005, p. 15) The harmonious, peaceful environments that characterize integrated schools in Northern Ireland are particularly significant in that they have developed within a larger social context that has been fraught with separation and conflict. I first became aware of integrated education in 2003, when I supervised a group of U.S. student teachers who spent three weeks at Oakwood Integrated Primary School in Belfast. I was impressed by the lively atmosphere of learning and engagement and the caring environment in which children and adults played and worked together. We have three rules here: "Be safe, be kind, and be responsible." With these words, Principal Olwin Frost introduced our group to the school. These are not empty words, but rather are truly the guiding principles for both children and adults in the school's social and academic arenas. As I observed and interacted with members of the Oakwood community, I kept thinking, "What a wonderful place to be a child; what a wonderful place to be a teacher."