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and Monographs
Connolly, P. (2009) Developing Programmes to Promote Ethnic
Diversity in Early Childhood: Lessons from Northern Ireland.
Working Paper No. 52. The Hague, The Netherlands: Bernard van Leer
Foundation. View Outline | Download
Full Report (PDF 1.78 MB).
Connolly, P. and Hayden, J. with Levin, D. (2007) From Conflict
to Peace Building: The Power of Early Childhood Initiatives –
Lessons from around the World. Redmond, WA: World Forum Foundation
(Publication date: 15 May 2007). View Outline.
Connolly, P. (2007) Quantitative Data Analysis in Education:
A Critical Overview Using SPSS. London: Routledge (Publication
date: 28 May 2007). View Outline.
Connolly, P. (2004) Boys and Schooling in the Early Years.
London: RoutledgeFalmer. View Outline.
Connolly, P. (1998) Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children:
Social Relations in A Multi-Ethnic, Inner-City Primary School.
London: Routledge. View Outline.
Connolly, P. & Troyna, B. (eds) (1998) Researching Racism
in Education: Politics, Theory and Practice. Buckingham: Open University
Press. View Outline.
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Peer-Reviewed Journal
Articles
Connolly, P., Kelly, B. and Smith, A. (2009) Ethnic habitus and
young children: A case study of Northern Ireland, European Early
Childhood Research Journal, 17(2): 217-232. View
Abstract.
Connolly, P. (2008) A critical review of some recent developments
in quantitative research on gender and achievement in the UK, British
Journal of Sociology of Education, 29(3): 249-260. View
Abstract.
Connolly, P. (2006) No new perspectives, just red herrings: a
reply to Gorard, British Journal of Educational Studies,
54(4): 476-482.
Connolly, P., Fitzpatrick, S., Gallagher, T. and Harris, P. (2006)
Addressing diversity and inclusion in the early years in conflict-affected
societies: A case study of the Media Initiative for Children –
Northern Ireland, International Journal for Early Years Education,
14(3): 263-278. View Abstract.
Connolly, P. & Hosken, K. (2006) The general and specific
effects of educational programmes aimed at promoting awareness of
and respect for diversity among young children, International
Journal of Early Years Education, 14(2): 107-126. View
Abstract.
Connolly, P. (2006) Summary statistics, educational achievement
gaps and the ecological fallacy, Oxford Review of Education,
32(2): 235-252. View Abstract.
Connolly, P. (2006) The Masculine Habitus as 'Distributed Cognition':
A Case Study of 5- to 6-Year-Old Boys in an English Inner-City,
Multi-Ethnic Primary School, Children & Society, 20(2):
140-152. Reprinted in: P. Hick and G. Thomas (eds)
Inclusion and Diversity in Education, Volume 4, pp. 157-170,
London: Sage.. View Abstract.
Connolly, P. (2006) Keeping a sense of proportion but loosing
all perspective: a critique of Gorard’s notion of the “Politician’s
Error”, British Journal of Educational Studies, 54(1):
73-88. View Abstract.
Connolly, P. (2006) The Effects of Social Class and Ethnicity
on Gender Differences in GCSE Attainment: A Secondary Analysis of
the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales 1997-2001, British
Educational Research Journal, 32(1): 3-21. Reprinted
in: S. Capel, M. Leask and T. Turner (eds) Readings
for Learning to Teach in the Secondary School. London: Routledge.
View Abstract.
Winter, K. & Connolly, P. (2005) A small scale study of the
relationship between measures of deprivation and child care referrals,
British Journal of Social Work, 35(6): 937-952. View
Abstract.
Connolly, P. and Healy, J. (2004) Symbolic violence and the neighborhood:
The educational aspirations of 7-8 year old working class girls,
British Journal of Sociology, 55(4): 511-29.
Connolly, P. & Healy, J. (2004) Symbolic violence, locality
and social class: the educational and career aspirations of 10-11
year old boys in Belfast, Pedagogy, Culture and Society,
12(1): 15-33. View Abstract.
Connolly, P. & Keenan, M. (2002) Racist harassment in the
white hinterlands: the experiences of minority ethnic children and
parents in schools in Northern Ireland, British Journal of Sociology
of Education, 23(3): 341-356. Reprinted in:
Barton, L. (ed.) (2006) Education and Society: 25 Years of the
British Journal of Sociology of Education, London: Routledge.
View Abstract.
Connolly, P. & Neill, J. (2001) Constructions of locality
and gender and their impact on the educational aspirations of working
class children, International Studies in Sociology of Education,
11(2): 107-129. View Abstract.
Connolly, P. (2001) Qualitative methods in the study of children's
racial attitudes and identities, Infant and Child Development,
10(3): 219-233. View Abstract.
Connolly, P. (2000) Racism and young girls’ peer-group relations:
The experiences of South Asian girls, Sociology 34(3):
499-519. Reprinted in: H. Goulbourne (ed.) (2001) Race and Ethnicity
in the Contemporary World, London: Routledge. View
Abstract.
Connolly, P. (2000) What now for the contact hypothesis? Towards
a new research agenda, Race Ethnicity and Education, 3(2):
169-193. View Abstract.
Connolly, P. (1996) Seen but never heard: rethinking approaches
to researching racism and young children, Discourse: Studies
in the Cultural Politics of Education, 17(2): 171-85. View
Abstract.
Connolly, P. (1995) Racism, masculine peer-group relations and
the schooling of African/Caribbean infant boys, British Journal
of Sociology of Education, 16(1): 75-92. View
Abstract.
Connolly, P. (1994) All lads together? Racism, masculinity and
multicultural/anti-racist strategies in a primary school, International
Studies in Sociology of Education, 4(2): 191 -211. View
Abstract.
Connolly, P. (1992) `Playing it by the rules': the politics of
research in `race' and education, British Educational Research
Journal, 18(2): 133-48. View
Abstract.
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Research Reports
Connolly, P., Muldoon, O. and Kehoe, S.. (2007) The Attitudes
and Experiences of Children Born in 1997 in Northern Ireland. Belfast:
BBC Northern Ireland. View Executive
Summary | Download
Full Report (PDF file 784KB).
Muldoon, O. and Connolly, P. (2007) Sectarianism and Subtle
Prejudice in Northern Ireland: A Technical Report on a Survey of
the Adult Population Commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland.
Belfast: BBC Northern Ireland. Download
Full Report (PDF file 579KB).
Connolly, P. and Healy, J. (2004) Children and the Conflict
in Northern Ireland: The Experiences and Perspectives of 3-11 Year
Olds. Belfast: Office of the First Minister and Deputy First
Minister. View Executive Summary
| Download
Full Report (PDF file 758KB).
Connolly, P. and Keenan, M. (2002) Tackling Racial Inequalities
in Northern Ireland: Structures and Strategies. Belfast: Northern
Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. View
Full Report Online.
Connolly, P., Smith, A. & Kelly, B. (2002) Too Young to
Notice? The Cultural and Political Awareness of 3-6 Year Olds in
Northern Ireland. Belfast: Community Relations Council. View
Executive Summary | Download
Full Report (PDF File 527KB).
Connolly, P. and Keenan, M. (2002) Consultation with Travellers
on the Recommendations of the Final Report of the Promoting Social
Inclusion Working Group on Travellers. Belfast: Office of the
First Minister and Deputy First Minister. View
Full Report Online.
Connolly, P. and Keenan, M. (2001) The Hidden Truth: Racist
Harassment in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Northern Ireland Statistics
and Research Agency. View Executive Summary
| Download Full Report (Word
Document 359KB).
Connolly, P. and Keenan, M. (2000) Opportunities for All: Minority
Ethnic People's Experiences of Education, Training and Employment
in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Northern Ireland Statistics and
Research Agency. View Executive Summary.
Connolly, P. and Keenan, M. (2000) Racial Attitudes and Prejudice
in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Northern Ireland Statistics and
Research Agency. View Summary.
Connolly, P. with Maginn, P. (1999) Sectarianism, Children
and Community Relations in Northern Ireland. Coleraine: Centre
for the Study of Conflict, University of Ulster. View
Full Report Online.
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Chapters in Edited Books
Connolly, P. (2008) Race, gender and critical reflexivity in research
with young children, in: P. Christensen and A. James (eds.) Research
With Children: Perspectives and Practices, Second Edition,
London: Routledge.
Connolly, P. and Khaoury, R. (2008) Whiteness, racism and exclusion
in Northern Ireland: A critical race perspective in: C. Coulter
and M. Murray (eds.) Northern Ireland after the Troubles? A
Society in Transition. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Connolly, P. (2007) "boys will be boys" ... but in what
ways? Social class and the development of young boys' schooling
identities, in: D. Thiessen and A. Cook-Sather (Eds) International
Hanbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School.
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Connolly, P. (2006) “It goes without saying (well, sometimes)”:
racism, whiteness and identity in Northern Ireland, in: J. Agyeman
and S. Neal (Eds) The New Countryside? Ethnicity, Nation and
Exclusion in Contemporary Rural Britain, Bristol: Policy Press.
Connolly, P. (2003) Gendered and gendering spaces: playgrounds
in the early years, in: C. Skelton & B. Francis (Eds) Boys
and Girls in the Primary Classroom. Buckingham: Open University
Press.
Connolly, P. (2003) The development of young children's ethnic
identities: implications for early years practice, in: C. Vincent
(ed.) Social Justice, Education and Identity, London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Reprinted in: P. Hick and G. Thomas (eds) Inclusion and Diversity
in Education, Volume 2, pp. 139-157, London: Sage.
Connolly, P. & Healy, J. (2003) The development of children's
attitudes towards 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland, in: O. Hargie
& D. Dickson (eds.) Researching the Troubles: Social Science
Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict, Edinburgh: Mainstream
Publishing.
Connolly, P. & Keenan, M. (1999) ‘The employment and
training needs of minority ethnic people in Northern Ireland’
in: Commission for Racial Equality for Northern Ireland Into
the Light. Belfast: CRENI.
Connolly, P. (1998) `Dancing to the wrong tune': ethnography, generalisation
and research on racism in schools, in: P. Connolly and B. Troyna
(eds) Researching Racism in Education: Politics, Theory and
Practice. Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 122-139.
Connolly, P. (1997) In search of authenticity: researching young
children's perspectives, in: A. Pollard et al. (eds) Children
and Their Curriculum: The Perspectives of Primary and Elementary
School Children. London: Falmer Press, pp. 162 183.
Connolly, P. (1997) Racism and postmodernism: towards a theory
of practice, in D. Owen (ed) Sociology After Postmodernism. London:
Sage. Reprinted in: Robbins, D. (ed.) (2001) Masters of Sociological
Theory: Pierre Bourdieu. London: Sage.
Connolly, P. (1996) Doing what comes naturally? Standpoint epistemology,
critical social research and the politics of identity, in E. Stina
Lyon and J. Busfield (eds) Methodological Imaginations.
Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, pp. 185-199.
Winter, K. and Connolly, P. (1996) `Keeping it in the family: Thatcherism
and the Children Act 1989, in: J. Pilcher and S. Wagg (eds) Thatcher's
Children: Politics. Childhood and Society in the 1980s and 1990s.
London: Falmer Press, pp. 29-42.
Connolly. P. (1995) Reconsidering multicultural/antiracist strategies
in education: articulations of `race' and gender in a primary school,
in: M. Griffiths and B. Troyna (eds) Antiracism, Culture and
Social Justice in Education. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books,
pp. 133-148.
Connolly, P. (1995) Boys will be boys? racism, sexuality and the
construction of masculine identities amongst infant boys, in: J.
Holland, M. Blair and S. Sheldon (eds) Debates and Issues in
Feminist Research and Pedagogy. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters
in association with the Open University, pp. 169-195. Reprinted
in: B. Cosin and M. Hales (eds) (1997) Families, Education
and Social Differences, London: Routledge, pp. 164-189.
Connolly, P. (1995) `Race' and policing in the inner-city: an
ethnographic study, in: P. Dunleavy and J. Stanyer (eds) Contemporary
Political Studies 1995. Belfast: Political Studies Association,
pp. 199-210. Download the
Paper, 76KB.
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Other Publications
Connolly, P. (2008) (Mis)Representing underachievement: A more
detailed reply to Gorard and Smith. Unpublished Paper. This
paper will be available to download shortly. Please email me if
you would like to be notified when it is made available.
Connolly, P. (2006) Young boys, masculinities and schooling, Sociology
Review, 15(3): 2-5.
Morrow, V. & Connolly, P. (eds.) (2006) Special Issue: Gender
and Ethnicity in Children's Everyday Lives, Children & Society,
20(2). View Contents.
Connolly, P. (2005) Some challenges in researching racism in education,
Review Essay, European Educational Research Journal, 4(1):
89-95.
Connolly, P. (2003) Ethical Principles for Researching Vulnerable
Groups. Belfast: Office of the First Minister and Deputy First
Minister. Download the
Guidelines (PDF, 90KB).
Connolly, P. (2002) Fairplay: Talking With Children About
Prejudice and Discrimination. Belfast: Barnardos and Save the
Children. Download the
Booklet (PDF, 907KB).
Connolly, P. (2002) Researching young children's perspectives on
"the troubles" in Northern Ireland, Child Care in
Practice, 8(1): 58-64.
Connolly, P. (2002) 'Race' and Racism in Northern Ireland:
A Review of the Research Evidence. Belfast: Office of the First
Minister and Deputy First Minister. Download
the Full Report (PDF, 497KB).
Connolly, P. (1999) Community Relations Work with Preschool
Children. Belfast: Community Relations Council.
Connolly, P. (1998) Early Years Anti-Sectarian Television.
Belfast: Community Relations Council.
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