David Raftery
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1601976 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Raftery |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Raftery |
| FIRMA | RAFTERY D |
| AFILIACIONES | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1131-848X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Designing and undertaking research for the Single Noongar Claim
This commentary concerns the design of research undertaken for the Single Noongar Claim in southwestern Western Australia. It draws attention to the benefits that innovative research approaches can bring to native title research generally, and the opportunities that the approach brought to the team of anthropologists working on the Single Noongar Claim specifically. It addresses two key practical challenges the research design sought to overcome.…
Modern Carmelite Nuns and Contemplative Identities
Communities of practice as ‘brave spaces’
This small-scale qualitative study explores the establishment and operation of communities of practice (CoPs) by six women teachers in schools in the areas of New Delhi, Chennai and Jehlum in India. The findings emerge from a larger research project on the professional development needs of women teachers in schools in India. Using the framework of ‘brave spaces’ the article examines the development of CoPs for the purpose of professional developm…
Feeling Political
This article discusses how women teachers experienced the Irish revolutionary period during the time of experience, rather than in the light of what came afterwards. It argues that, while new scholarship generally succeeded in writing women into the historical narrative of the revolutionary period, it failed to explore the experiences of women teachers. The article draws on several archival collections, to present an account of emotions of protes…
Ageing habits
The financing of convents by women in Ireland, 1774-1860
The rapid growth in the number of convents in the nineteenth century, and the strong links between many of these foundations and Ireland, has been noted in much scholarship. Generally the impetus in such scholarship has been to understand the expansion of congregations, and the range of their ministries. The stage before such expansion is the ‘founding’ stage: the period in which congregations were first established, and put down their roots. Thi…
Teaching vocation or religious vocation
This article discusses oral history sources that give insight into how a specific group of teaching sisters (also known as nuns or women religious) reflect on their primary identity as vowed women, and their professional identity as teachers. Their identity was bound up with the fact that they had taken religious vows, and entered a congregation with a clear charism or identity of its own, and they each had their own understanding of vocation. Th…
It was in the very air we breathed
This article explores ways in which faith-based education in Ireland, both in the home and in schools, contributed to religious and lay mission and volunteer vocations across much of the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history interviews of 28 Irish women (14 missionary nuns and 14 lay volunteers) and archival sources, we show how both formal and informal faith-based education taught Irish schoolgirls and young women about different forms of o…
Digital poverty in a country that is digitally powerful
This paper examines leadership challenges in managing digital power and digital poverty, in the delivery of schooling during the Covid-19 emergency lockdown in India. The article suggests that although India is considered a global leader in digital technology, its primary and secondary school system suffers from digital poverty with associated tensions for school leadership.The paper explores the nature of teaching and learning in a selection of …
New turns in the history of education in Ireland
Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World, 1800–1900
This article provides an account of some of the education provisions by Irish women religious, in the Anglophone world, in the nineteenth century. Although many orders sent Sisters around the globe, to both establish and run schools for English-speaking children, the main focus of this article is on two Irish orders, the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Sisters of Mercy. While the work of other female congregations i…
Passing the baton”
This article examines the historical backdrop to the involvement of teaching Sisters in convent schooling for girls in India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, since the late nineteenth century. It then explores how, as a consequence of a range of social changes, leadership in convent schools has changed in both countries, across the twentieth century. The Irish Sisters who founded and established these schools commenced “passing the baton” of…
Developing an agenda for the history of women religious in Ireland
In ‘An Agenda for women's history in Ireland, 1500–1900’ (1992), Margaret MacCurtain, Mary O'Dowd and Maria Luddy noted that research on convents and women religious (nuns/sisters) in Ireland was beginning to open up in the 1980s. They also suggested areas that merited the attention of scholars, including the experience of vowed religious life by women, issues of class and power within Irish convents, and the role of nuns in Irish society. This a…
Out of Africa
This article examines the lived experiences of teachers who were either lay volunteers or Sister missionaries, working in education and health care. The research draws on oral histories, examining the responses of participants under a series of thematic headings that unpack the influence of family life, schooling and faith, while also exploring experience ‘in the field’. The article attempts to compare the responses of lay women with Sisters (als…
Professional learning and development needs of women teachers in the Republic of Pakistan
This article, emerging from a wider study on the professional development needs of women teachers working in Catholic convent schools in the Republic of Pakistan, explores the perspectives and experiences of school leaders and Principals who developed professional development programmes. This area, which has been under-researched in the professional development literature, addresses the complexities and contradictions that the glocalisation of pr…
Becoming ‘everything rolled into one’
Based on the oral history testimonies of Sister-teachers, this study provides an insight into the impact of the Free Education Scheme (1967) on the lives of women religious in Ireland. This major initiative was generated and driven by men; however, it had a direct impact on the professional lives of thousands of women who ran schools. The article outlines the development of Irish convent schools as a form of ‘voluntary secondary schooling’ and th…
Un-Irish and un-Catholic”
This article charts the development of physical education and sports in girls’ schools in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It notes how early developments were undoubtedly influenced by traditions and practices in English public schools, with games such as hockey and cricket becoming popular in Irish girls’ schools. The “Swedish” gymnastics movement, which became popular the 1870s, led to the introduction of calli…
Producing value from Australia's vineyards
This article provides a detailed ethnographic intervention to the phenomenon of value-added agriculture, a discourse that has attained several concrete forms in Australian wine industry policy, and which is routinely presented as a legitimate rural future in wider agricultural and social science research. The legal and policy architecture of 'Geographical Indications' purports to value the regional distinctiveness of agricultural areas, by creati…
Je suis d’aucune Nation ’
This article examines the lives of Irish-born women religious around the world in the period 1840–1940. Ireland sent thousands of nuns overseas as teachers and missionaries, to work in schools, orphanages and hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, the Americas, Australia and Europe. Looking at contemporaneous views of missionary work, recruitment to religious life and the social conditions for Irish women during and after the years of …
The “mission” of nuns in female education in Ireland, c .1850–1950
This article provides a review and critique of scholarship on female education in Ireland, arguing that researchers have provided a consensual narrative in which women religious (nuns) played a central role in providing academic education to girls and higher education to women. The tendency has been to claim the activities of women religious as part of the impetus that drove the organised women’s movement in the late nineteenth and early twentiet…
Mapping the terrain of female education in Ireland, 1830–1910
Education for Irish women and girls developed significantly in the period 1830–1910. During this time, formal state‐funded education systems were established in Ireland by the British government. Some of these systems included females from their inception and some attempted to exclude girls and women. This article charts the opening up of formal schooling and university to Irish girls and women, examining the points at which they were excluded, t…
Gender Balance/Gender Bias
Producing value from Australia's vineyards
This article provides a detailed ethnographic intervention to the phenomenon of value-added agriculture, a discourse that has attained several concrete forms in Australian wine industry policy, and which is routinely presented as a legitimate rural future in wider agricultural and social science research. The legal and policy architecture of 'Geographical Indications' purports to value the regional distinctiveness of agricultural areas, by creati…
Je suis d’aucune Nation ’
This article examines the lives of Irish-born women religious around the world in the period 1840–1940. Ireland sent thousands of nuns overseas as teachers and missionaries, to work in schools, orphanages and hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, the Americas, Australia and Europe. Looking at contemporaneous views of missionary work, recruitment to religious life and the social conditions for Irish women during and after the years of …
Developing an agenda for the history of women religious in Ireland
In ‘An Agenda for women's history in Ireland, 1500–1900’ (1992), Margaret MacCurtain, Mary O'Dowd and Maria Luddy noted that research on convents and women religious (nuns/sisters) in Ireland was beginning to open up in the 1980s. They also suggested areas that merited the attention of scholars, including the experience of vowed religious life by women, issues of class and power within Irish convents, and the role of nuns in Irish society. This a…
Becoming ‘everything rolled into one’
Based on the oral history testimonies of Sister-teachers, this study provides an insight into the impact of the Free Education Scheme (1967) on the lives of women religious in Ireland. This major initiative was generated and driven by men; however, it had a direct impact on the professional lives of thousands of women who ran schools. The article outlines the development of Irish convent schools as a form of ‘voluntary secondary schooling’ and th…
The “mission” of nuns in female education in Ireland, c .1850–1950
This article provides a review and critique of scholarship on female education in Ireland, arguing that researchers have provided a consensual narrative in which women religious (nuns) played a central role in providing academic education to girls and higher education to women. The tendency has been to claim the activities of women religious as part of the impetus that drove the organised women’s movement in the late nineteenth and early twentiet…
Gender Balance/Gender Bias
Mapping the terrain of female education in Ireland, 1830–1910
Education for Irish women and girls developed significantly in the period 1830–1910. During this time, formal state‐funded education systems were established in Ireland by the British government. Some of these systems included females from their inception and some attempted to exclude girls and women. This article charts the opening up of formal schooling and university to Irish girls and women, examining the points at which they were excluded, t…
The “mission” of nuns in female education in Ireland, c .1850–1950
This article provides a review and critique of scholarship on female education in Ireland, arguing that researchers have provided a consensual narrative in which women religious (nuns) played a central role in providing academic education to girls and higher education to women. The tendency has been to claim the activities of women religious as part of the impetus that drove the organised women’s movement in the late nineteenth and early twentiet…
Je suis d’aucune Nation ’
This article examines the lives of Irish-born women religious around the world in the period 1840–1940. Ireland sent thousands of nuns overseas as teachers and missionaries, to work in schools, orphanages and hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, the Americas, Australia and Europe. Looking at contemporaneous views of missionary work, recruitment to religious life and the social conditions for Irish women during and after the years of …
Producing value from Australia's vineyards
This article provides a detailed ethnographic intervention to the phenomenon of value-added agriculture, a discourse that has attained several concrete forms in Australian wine industry policy, and which is routinely presented as a legitimate rural future in wider agricultural and social science research. The legal and policy architecture of 'Geographical Indications' purports to value the regional distinctiveness of agricultural areas, by creati…
Un-Irish and un-Catholic”
This article charts the development of physical education and sports in girls’ schools in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It notes how early developments were undoubtedly influenced by traditions and practices in English public schools, with games such as hockey and cricket becoming popular in Irish girls’ schools. The “Swedish” gymnastics movement, which became popular the 1870s, led to the introduction of calli…
Professional learning and development needs of women teachers in the Republic of Pakistan
This article, emerging from a wider study on the professional development needs of women teachers working in Catholic convent schools in the Republic of Pakistan, explores the perspectives and experiences of school leaders and Principals who developed professional development programmes. This area, which has been under-researched in the professional development literature, addresses the complexities and contradictions that the glocalisation of pr…
Becoming ‘everything rolled into one’
Based on the oral history testimonies of Sister-teachers, this study provides an insight into the impact of the Free Education Scheme (1967) on the lives of women religious in Ireland. This major initiative was generated and driven by men; however, it had a direct impact on the professional lives of thousands of women who ran schools. The article outlines the development of Irish convent schools as a form of ‘voluntary secondary schooling’ and th…
Out of Africa
This article examines the lived experiences of teachers who were either lay volunteers or Sister missionaries, working in education and health care. The research draws on oral histories, examining the responses of participants under a series of thematic headings that unpack the influence of family life, schooling and faith, while also exploring experience ‘in the field’. The article attempts to compare the responses of lay women with Sisters (als…
Digital poverty in a country that is digitally powerful
This paper examines leadership challenges in managing digital power and digital poverty, in the delivery of schooling during the Covid-19 emergency lockdown in India. The article suggests that although India is considered a global leader in digital technology, its primary and secondary school system suffers from digital poverty with associated tensions for school leadership.The paper explores the nature of teaching and learning in a selection of …
New turns in the history of education in Ireland
Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World, 1800–1900
This article provides an account of some of the education provisions by Irish women religious, in the Anglophone world, in the nineteenth century. Although many orders sent Sisters around the globe, to both establish and run schools for English-speaking children, the main focus of this article is on two Irish orders, the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Sisters of Mercy. While the work of other female congregations i…
Passing the baton”
This article examines the historical backdrop to the involvement of teaching Sisters in convent schooling for girls in India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, since the late nineteenth century. It then explores how, as a consequence of a range of social changes, leadership in convent schools has changed in both countries, across the twentieth century. The Irish Sisters who founded and established these schools commenced “passing the baton” of…
Developing an agenda for the history of women religious in Ireland
In ‘An Agenda for women's history in Ireland, 1500–1900’ (1992), Margaret MacCurtain, Mary O'Dowd and Maria Luddy noted that research on convents and women religious (nuns/sisters) in Ireland was beginning to open up in the 1980s. They also suggested areas that merited the attention of scholars, including the experience of vowed religious life by women, issues of class and power within Irish convents, and the role of nuns in Irish society. This a…
It was in the very air we breathed
This article explores ways in which faith-based education in Ireland, both in the home and in schools, contributed to religious and lay mission and volunteer vocations across much of the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history interviews of 28 Irish women (14 missionary nuns and 14 lay volunteers) and archival sources, we show how both formal and informal faith-based education taught Irish schoolgirls and young women about different forms of o…
Teaching vocation or religious vocation
This article discusses oral history sources that give insight into how a specific group of teaching sisters (also known as nuns or women religious) reflect on their primary identity as vowed women, and their professional identity as teachers. Their identity was bound up with the fact that they had taken religious vows, and entered a congregation with a clear charism or identity of its own, and they each had their own understanding of vocation. Th…
Ageing habits
The financing of convents by women in Ireland, 1774-1860
The rapid growth in the number of convents in the nineteenth century, and the strong links between many of these foundations and Ireland, has been noted in much scholarship. Generally the impetus in such scholarship has been to understand the expansion of congregations, and the range of their ministries. The stage before such expansion is the ‘founding’ stage: the period in which congregations were first established, and put down their roots. Thi…
Designing and undertaking research for the Single Noongar Claim
This commentary concerns the design of research undertaken for the Single Noongar Claim in southwestern Western Australia. It draws attention to the benefits that innovative research approaches can bring to native title research generally, and the opportunities that the approach brought to the team of anthropologists working on the Single Noongar Claim specifically. It addresses two key practical challenges the research design sought to overcome.…
Modern Carmelite Nuns and Contemplative Identities
Communities of practice as ‘brave spaces’
This small-scale qualitative study explores the establishment and operation of communities of practice (CoPs) by six women teachers in schools in the areas of New Delhi, Chennai and Jehlum in India. The findings emerge from a larger research project on the professional development needs of women teachers in schools in India. Using the framework of ‘brave spaces’ the article examines the development of CoPs for the purpose of professional developm…
Feeling Political
This article discusses how women teachers experienced the Irish revolutionary period during the time of experience, rather than in the light of what came afterwards. It argues that, while new scholarship generally succeeded in writing women into the historical narrative of the revolutionary period, it failed to explore the experiences of women teachers. The article draws on several archival collections, to present an account of emotions of protes…
Sociology (17 obras) · Gender Studies (12 obras) · Pedagogy (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Irish (9 obras) · Irish and British Studies (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras)