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Dr Claire McGlynn

EdD, MEd, PGDip, BSc (Hons), PGCE.
Lecturer


Room 71.02.006
69/71 University Street
School of Education
Queen’s University Belfast

Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 5960
Fax: +44 (0)28 9097 5066
Email: c.mcglynn@qub.ac.uk

 

Leadership Roles:

  • Coordinator of Education Studies (PGCE)  2013-
  • Internationalisation Champion, School of Education, 2011-2012
  • Member of School Management Board, 2011-2012
  • Coordinator of EdD, Doctorate in Education, 2009-2012
  • Coordinator of MSc Diversity and Inclusion in Education (with Ulrike Niens), 2006-2012
  • A Director of the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education, 2010-2012
  • Convener of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association, 2010-2012
  • Chair, Peace Education Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association, 2009-2010
  • Program Chair, Peace Education Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association, 2008-2009
  • Member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Peace Education, 2006-
  • Member of Editorial Board of Education, 2010-

Teaching:

EdD Education Research: An Overview
EdD Education in Divided Societies
EdD Researching Children and Young People in Educational Settings (with Dr Ulrike Niens)
Dissertation supervision

 

Research/Scholarship
Research/Scholarship Interests:

My research interests include integrated education in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, peace education, multicultural and intercultural education, education for social cohesion in conflict and post-conflict societies and teacher education for diversity.
 

Research/Scholarship Projects:

  • Integrated Peace Education: Global Network for Practice and Research. NICIE, C. McGlynn, Z. Bekerman and M. Zembylas, in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education [NICIE]. Funded by the Open Society (2011-12, £14,600).
  • Enhancing inter-ethnic dialogue and collaboration, ECD/Education programme in Macedonia. With J.Hughes (Principal Investigator), C.Donnelly, L.Emerson and K.Carlisle. UNICEF (2010-12, £85,369).
  • Characteristics of good educational practice in integrated schools in response to cultural diversity in Northern Ireland Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, (2008-2012, £2500) Principal Investigator.
  • Teachers' understandings of reconciliation and inclusion (2007-9) With colleagues from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, the University of South Australia, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, the University of Cyprus and the Open University of Cyprus.
  • Response to cultural diversity, International Fund for Ireland, (2007-8, £5000). Principal Investigator.
  • Integrating education, International Fund for Ireland, (2006-8, £6062). Principal Investigator.
  • Sustained Peace Education for Social Cohesion in International Conflict and Post Conflict Societies, Alan B. Slifka Foundation, New York, (2004-6, $15,000).With Z.Bekerman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
     

Awards

  • In 2011 in Montreal the Comparative and International Education Society [CIES] awarded (2009) Peace education in conflict and post-conflict societies: comparative perspectives edited by C. McGlynn, M. Zembylas, Z. Bekermanand T. Gallagher (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) the first annual CIES Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award.

 

 

Publications:

Books

  • McGlynn, C., Zembylas, M. and Bekerman, Z. (Eds) (forthcoming 2013) Integrated education in conflicted societies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • McGlynn, C., Zembylas, M., Bekerman, Z. and Gallagher, T. (Eds) (2009) Peace education in conflict and post-conflict societies: comparative perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Timpson, W.M., Brantmeier, E., Kees, N., Keller, J., McGlynn, C. and Ndura, E. (2009) 147 Tips for Teaching Peace and Reconciliation. Madison: Atwood Publishing.
  • Bekerman, Z. and McGlynn, C. (Eds) (2007) Addressing ethnic conflict through peace education: international perspectives. USA: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Peer reviewed journal articles

  • McGlynn, C. and London, T. (2013) Leadership for inclusion: Conceptualizing and enacting inclusion in integrated schools in a troubled society. Research Papers in Education Vol. 28, No. 2, pp.155-175.
  • Zembylas, M. and McGlynn, C. (2012) Discomforting pedagogies: Emotional tensions, ethical dilemmas and transformative possibilities. British Educational Research Journal Vol. 38, No. 1, pp 41-59.
  • McGlynn, C. and London, T. (2011) Leadership for inclusion: Conceptualizing and enacting inclusion in integrated schools in a troubled society. Research Papers in Education, iFirst article, 1-21.
  • McGlynn, C. (2011) Negotiating difference in post-conflict Northern Ireland: An analysis of approaches to integrated education. Multicultural Perspectives Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.16-22.
  • Zembylas, M., Bekerman, Z., McGlynn.C. and Ferreira, A. (2009) Teachers’ understandings of reconciliation and inclusion in four troubled societies. Research in Comparative and International Education Vol.4, No.4, pp.408-424.
  • McGlynn, C. (2009) Integrating education: Parekhian multiculturalism and good practice. Intercultural Education, Vol. 20. No. 4, pp. 299-310.
  • McGlynn, C., Lamarre, P., Montgomery, A. and Laperriere, A. (2009) Journeys into the unknown: shared schooling and social change in Quebec and Northern Ireland. Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp.209-225.
  • Bekerman, Z., Zembylas, M. and McGlynn, C. (2009) Working towards the de-essentialization of identity categories in conflict and post-conflict societies: Israel, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland. Comparative Education Review, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp.213-234.
  • Montgomery, A. and McGlynn, C. (2009) New peace, new teachers: student teachers’ perspectives on diversity and community relations in Northern Ireland. Teaching and Teacher Education, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp.391-399.
  • McGlynn, C. (2008) Leading integrated schools: a study of the multicultural perspectives of Northern Irish principals. Journal of Peace Education, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.3-16.
  • McGlynn, C. and Bekerman, Z. (2007) ‘The management of pupil difference in Catholic-Protestant and Palestinian-Jewish integrated education in Northern Ireland and Israel’ Compare, Vol. 37, No.5, pp689-705.
  • McGlynn, C. (2007) ‘Rhetoric and reality: are integrated schools in Northern Ireland really making a difference?’ Irish Educational Studies, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 271-287.
  • McGlynn, C. (2006) ‘Integrated schooling and faith-based schooling in Northern Ireland.’  Irish Journal of Education, Vol. 36, pp. 49-62.
  • McGlynn, C., Niens, U., Cairns, E. and Hewstone, M. (2004) ‘Moving out of conflict: the contribution of integrated schools in Northern Ireland to identity, attitudes, forgiveness and reconciliation.’ Journal of Peace Education, Vol.1, No.2, pp.147-163.
  • McGlynn, C. (2004) ‘Education for peace in integrated schools; a priority for Northern Ireland?’ Child Care in Practice Journal, Vol. 10, No.2, April 2004, pp.85-94.
  • Hagan, M. and McGlynn, C. (2004) ‘Moving barriers: promoting learning for diversity in initial teacher education.’ Journal of Intercultural Education, Vol.15, No.4, pp. 243-252.
  • McGlynn, C. (2003) ‘Integrated education in Northern Ireland in the context of critical multiculturalism.’ Irish Educational Studies Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, Winter 2003, pp.11-27.

 

Book chapters

  • McGlynn, C. (2013) ‘Intercultural education: learning from the integrated Catholic and Protestant schools in Northern Ireland’. For Diversity, Intercultural Encounters and Education Susana Gonçalves, and Markus A. Carpenter (eds) Routledge.
  • McGlynn, C. (2011) ‘The contribution of integrated schools to peace building in Northern Ireland’. For Building Peace in Northern Ireland  Maria Power (Ed.) Liverpool University Press, pp 53-72.
  • McGlynn, C. (2010) ‘A typology of approaches to multicultural education: A Northern Ireland case study’. Educating Teachers for Diversity: Meeting the Challenge, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development [OECD], Paris.
  • McGlynn, C. (2010) ‘Culture and peace building in integrated schools in Northern Ireland’. In Fostering peace through cultural initiatives: From the roundtable on conflict and culture, Joint Research Institute for International Peace and Culture, Aoyama Gakuin University and the Japan Foundation London.
  • McGlynn, C. (2009) Negotiating cultural difference in divided societies: An analysis of approaches to integrated education in Northern Ireland. In C. McGlynn, M. Zembylas, Z. Bekerman and T. Gallagher (eds) Peace education in conflict and post-conflict societies: comparative perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 9-25.
  • McGlynn, C. (2009) Introduction. In C. McGlynn, M. Zembylas, Z. Bekerman and T. Gallagher (eds) Peace education in conflict and post-conflict societies: comparative perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.5-7.
  • McGlynn, C. (2007) Challenges in integrated education in Northern Ireland. In Z.Bekerman and C.McGlynn (Eds) Addressing ethnic conflict through peace education: international perspectives. USA: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.77-89.
  • Bekerman, Z. and McGlynn, C. (2007) Introduction. In In Z.Bekerman and C.McGlynn (Eds) Addressing ethnic conflict through peace education: international perspectives. USA: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-5.

 

Research Reports

  • McGlynn, C. and London, T. (2011) Leadership for inclusion in integrated schools in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Queen’s University, Belfast, pp.1-4.
  • McGlynn, C. (2008) Integrating education: case studies of good practice in response to cultural diversity. Belfast: Queen’s University, Belfast, pp. 1-69.
  • Montgomery, A., Fraser, G., McGlynn, C., Smith, A. and Gallagher, T. (2003) Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Integration in Practice. Coleraine: UNESCO Centre, University of Ulster, pp.1-47. ISBN 0-9544544-1-3.