Grummell, Bernie (2016) Opportunities and Obstacles: how school leaders view development education in Irish post-primary schools. Policy and Practice - A Development Education Review, 23. pp. 38-64. ISSN 1748-135X

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School leaders play a vital role in ensuring that schools attend to issues of local and global justice within the ethos and daily practices of their school community. This article examines the attitudes and activities of school leaders in relation to development education and their vision for its integration in schools based on a national survey of post-primary school leaders in the Republic of Ireland. We consider the conditions needed for development education to be successfully implemented and the drivers of change required that can sustain it in the longer term. We examine why some school leaders and communities seem to be disconnected from development education opportunities and unaware of available supports, whilst others engage actively with it as an organic part of their school culture. This has broader implications for resilience of school leadership, the teaching profession and school community, particularly in an era of constraint. It offers a unique insight into development education from the vantage point of those leading schools.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Development education; school leadership; post-primary education;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Adult and Community Education
Item ID:	8255
Depositing User:	Dr. Bernie Grummell
Date Deposited:	30 May 2017 14:40
Journal or Publication Title:	Policy and Practice - A Development Education Review
Publisher:	Centre for Global Education
Refereed:	No
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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