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Academic ‘truth’ and perpetuation of negative attitudes and intolerance towards Travellers in Contemporary Ireland (2015)

Kitchin, Rob; Crowley, Una

Academic ‘truth’ and perpetuation of negative attitudes and intolerance towards Travellers in Contemporary Ireland (2015)

Kitchin, Rob; Crowley, Una

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In 2014, fifty-one years after the publication of the seminal Report of the Commission on Itinerancy, Irish Travellers remain one the most marginalised groups in Irish society. This is despite the fact that vast resources and energy have been introduced into programmes, campaigns and partnerships aimed at improving relations between Travellers and sedentary society. Whether recognised as an ethnic group, as in Northern Ireland (see Hamilton, Bloomer and Potter, Chapter 4 above), or a listed concern of equality legislation, as in the Republic, Travellers continue to perform very poorly on every indicator used to measure disadvantage including unemployment, illiteracy, poverty, health status and access to decision making and political representation. Nomadism, a core element in Traveller culture, has been severely curtailed as a number of government Acts were ratified in the second half of the twentieth century to regulate Travellers’ lives and delimit their spatial mobility with resp...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7676/

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Exploring Spaces for Learning: Using Narrative Mediation Path to Improve the Academic Performance of Uunderachieving Undergraduate Students (2012)

Crowley, Una; Mahon, Catherine

Exploring Spaces for Learning: Using Narrative Mediation Path to Improve the Academic Performance of Uunderachieving Undergraduate Students (2012)

Crowley, Una; Mahon, Catherine

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Learning to learn has been identified as a key educational competence. Over the next two years, as part of the INSTALL1 project, NUI Maynooth is testing the effectiveness of an exploratory group technique, the Narrative Mediation Path (NMP), which has been developed to promote reflective thinking skills. To date, interviews have been conducted with 200 first year students. Common themes emerging from these interviews regarding student engagement are discussed. Notable was the number of concerns relating to coping with academic demands. From these 200 students, 20 students will participate in the subsequent phases of the INSTALL project utilising the NMP.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5004/

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Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

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Genealogy is a historical perspective and investigative method, which offers an intrinsic critique of the present. It provides people with the critical skills for analysing and uncovering the relationship between knowledge, power and the human subject in modern society and the conceptual tools to understand how their being has been shaped by historical forces. Genealogy works on the limits of what people think is possible, not only exposing those limits and confines but also revealing the spaces of freedom people can yet experience and the changes that can still be made (Foucault 1988). Genealogy as method derives from German philosophy, particularly the works of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), but is most closely associated with French academic Michel Foucault (1926-24). Michel Foucault’s genealogical analyses challenge traditional practices of history, philosophical assumptions and established conceptions of knowledge, truth and power. Genealogy displaces the primacy of the subje...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3024/

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Liberal rule through non-liberal means: the attempted settlement of Irish Travellers (1955-1975) (2005)

Crowley, Una

Liberal rule through non-liberal means: the attempted settlement of Irish Travellers (1955-1975) (2005)

Crowley, Una

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In 1963, after the publication of the Report of the Commission on Itinerancy, the Irish Government embarked on a national programme for the 'settlement', 'assimilation' and 'rehabilatation' of Irish Travellers. This paper is concerned with the power effects of discourse both driving and mobilised by the Report and with how liberal forms of thought and political rationality have considered the treatment of individuals and groups condidered to be without the 'attributes' of juridical and political responsibility'. (Dean, 1999:134). The paper describes how Traveller society 'imagined' and reconstructed during this period through elite discourse and the use of statistical inscriptions; how these mechanisms of representations facilitated and legitimated intervention into their everyday lives, rendered Travellers visible and permitted their characterion as a 'group', a 'community' in need of reform.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1259/

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One Year On: Using a Learning Skills Programme to Support Learners At Risk of Academic Underachievement (2013)

Mahon, Catherine; Crowley, Una

One Year On: Using a Learning Skills Programme to Support Learners At Risk of Academic Underachievement (2013)

Mahon, Catherine; Crowley, Una

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Making the transition to higher education requires learners to become increasingly responsible for regulating their own learning. However, not all learners will have developed, or indeed be aware of, the various strategies that can be utilised to aid learning and improve academic achievement. Over the past year, we have piloted a new learning skills programme designed to support learners who have underachieved academically since commencing higher education. One of the aims of this support programme was to help learners identify and practise effective strategies that could feasibly be incorporated into their own studies (e.g., elaboration and organisation techniques). Following on from the paper presented at last year’s conference detailing the programme methodology, in the current paper we report on the data collected, including a comparison of the pre- and post-programme academic performance and learning strategy use of the 40 participating learners. In the aftermath of the program...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5005/

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Outside in Dublin: Travellers, Society and the State 1963 -1985 (2009)

Crowley, Una

Outside in Dublin: Travellers, Society and the State 1963 -1985 (2009)

Crowley, Una

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This paper examines accommodation policies and spatialized practices designed to rehabilitate, assimilate and integrate Irish Travellers (Ireland’s indigenous nomadic population) into mainstream society. With a specific focus on Dublin, the study covers the period from the commencement of the National Settlement Programme in 1964 until the mid 1980s when the depth of division between the settled community and Travellers reached crisis point and was expressed in outbursts of intercommunal violence in neighbourhoods throughout Dublin. I have chosen to concentrate on this particular period as it was a critical time in Travellers’ history and the accommodation policies and programmes developed during this time continue to have profound consequences for Travellers right up to the present day. It was during this period that widely held negative perceptions of Travellers were validated and cemented in research and policy1, legitimising behaviour towards Travellers that has ranged from shun...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3025/

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Paradoxical spaces of Traveller citizenship in contemporary Ireland (2007)

Crowley, Una; Kitchin, Rob

Paradoxical spaces of Traveller citizenship in contemporary Ireland (2007)

Crowley, Una; Kitchin, Rob

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In this paper we examine the role of law in shaping the socio-spatial lives of citizens through an examination of the changing nature of governmentality with respect to Travellers in Ireland between 1998 and 2003. Undertaking an analysis of the policy process, new legislation, the Citizen Traveller campaign, media reports, and interviews with politicians, police and Travellers, we document how the Irish government attempted during this period to shift its strategy of dealing with the ‘Traveller problem’ from a regulationist form of citizenship designed to force Travellers to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, to active citizenship that offered Travellers recognition, rewards and rights in return for managed nomadism or sedentary conformism. However, rather than leading to the emancipation and empowerment the Irish government envisaged, we detail how failings by both the government and Travellers in implementing reform has perpetuated the original situation and paradoxically led to new leg...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/2967/

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Producing ‘decent girls’: governmentality and the moral geographies of sexual conduct in Ireland (1922–1937) (2008)

Crowley, Una; Kitchin, Rob

Producing ‘decent girls’: governmentality and the moral geographies of sexual conduct in Ireland (1922–1937) (2008)

Crowley, Una; Kitchin, Rob

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In this article we examine the mode of governmentality constructed in Ireland with regard to the regulation and disciplining of sexuality in the post-independence era up to the writing of the Constitution (1922–1937). Drawing on the writings of Michel Foucault, we document how Ireland became an intense site of applied, national bio-politics with a panoply of government commissions and legislation, accompanied by new sites of reform (Magdalene Asylums and Mother andBabyHomes), which togetherwere designed tomould and police the sexual practices of its citizens and create a sanitised moral landscape.Whilst a thoroughly gendered project, with nearly all legislation and sites of reform targeting women, we contend it was also a highly spatialised endeavour. The modes and practices of governmentality produced a dense spatialised grid of discipline, reform and self-regulation, seeking to produce ‘decent’ women inhabiting virtuous spaces by limiting access to work and public spaces, confinin...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3072/

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Progression and non-completion in undergraduate students: Moving from academic disengagement to academic engagement (2012)

Crowley, Una; Mahon, Catherine; Strain, Eanan

Progression and non-completion in undergraduate students: Moving from academic disengagement to academic engagement (2012)

Crowley, Una; Mahon, Catherine; Strain, Eanan

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Lack of awareness and proficiency in essential skills contributing to learning, especially metacognitive skills (e.g., evaluation, monitoring, reflection), can have potentially adverse effects on academic engagement. The research presented here constitutes the second phase in a longitudinal research project undertaken at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) which aims to develop effective supports specifically tailored to meet the needs of students at-risk of non-progression due to academic disengagement. Prevalent themes to emerge from the interviews conducted as part of the first phase of this research included the high proportion of first year students with concerns relating to an inability to cope with academic requirements and changes in the learning environment (e.g., the expectation of self-regulated learning). Building on these initial findings, a training programme referred to as the Narrative Mediation Path, is currently being tested and evaluated wi...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5029/

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Race and immigration in contemporary Ireland (2008)

Crowley, Una; Gilmartin, Mary; Kitchin, Rob

Race and immigration in contemporary Ireland (2008)

Crowley, Una; Gilmartin, Mary; Kitchin, Rob

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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7303/

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Vote Yes for Common Sense Citizenship: Immigration and the Paradoxes at the Heart of Ireland's "Céad Míle Fáilte" (NIRSA) Working Paper Series. No. 30 (2006)

Crowley, Una; Gilmartin, Mary; Kitchin, Rob

Vote Yes for Common Sense Citizenship: Immigration and the Paradoxes at the Heart of Ireland's "Céad Míle Fáilte" (NIRSA) Working Paper Series. No. 30 (2006)

Crowley, Una; Gilmartin, Mary; Kitchin, Rob

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In this paper we examine the discursive production and employment of, what Irish politicians term, ‘commonsense citizenship’ as a means of addressing and regulating new immigration to Ireland, and in re-defining Irishness and Irish citizenship (culminating in a national Citizenship referendum in June 2004). We argue that commonsense citizenship is employed in such a way as to fix and essentialise Irishness, thus highlighting the threatening other, and to construct immigrants as suspect, untrustworthy, and deserving of Ireland’s ‘hospitality’ only in limited, prescribed ways or not at all. Through examining six troubling paradoxes we reveal slippages, contradictions and nuances that commonsense citizenship works to deny and erase, but nevertheless work to undermine its essentialism and injustices. In so doing, we argue these paradoxes open ways to rethink Irish citizenship, and how such a notion is produced discursively.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1541/

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