Introduction to Divided Societies

Vani Borooah and Colin Knox

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Borooah and Knox begin the book with a rationale for examining the economics of education in a divided society through a case study of Northern Ireland. They offer a short overview of other societies in which children are educated separately, India, the USA (increasingly), and England, as context for their study. The authors engage in a conceptual discussion which locates the specifics of education into a wider peace building agenda in Northern Ireland and interculturalism in the United Kingdom. What sort of society does Northern Ireland want – parallel living (‘separate but equal’) or a shared society?

Keywords: Divided Communities; Northern Ireland; Catholic; Protestant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in The Economics of Schooling in a Divided Society Palgrave Macmillan (2015): pp. 1-15

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