Cahal Mclaughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 83029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cahal Mclaughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cahal |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclaughlin |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAUGHLIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8603-8610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Purposes, politics and passion
There is a theme and a debate running through and around the majority of the papers in this issue, and it is an extremely timely one. The debate is around the aims and purposes of action research (
Exploring the foundations
The first four articles in this issue are focused upon aspects of research in teacher education. They explore different areas of the field, notably the use of action research and/or lesson study as
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability
Based on third generation activity theory, this study analyses the interplay between a test-based accountability mechanism and a pedagogical reform that introduced unfamiliar educational experiences (including those popular in other contexts) to implement learner-centred education (LCE) in a cross-cultural teacher education programme in China. Interviews with principals and teachers and school documents in four schools were analysed. Findings que…
The multiplicity and dynamics of the interpreter’s roles in mediating cultural differences
This paper investigates the role of interpreters in addressing cultural differences in the context of a cross-cultural collaborative teacher professional development project. Based on positioning theory, this study employed interpreter-mediated interactions and interviews to reveal the complex roles that interpreters played when interpreting culture-related terms. Findings revealed that interpreters' roles were shifting between those of transmitt…
Implementing Educational Reform
Experiencing and experimenting
Cultural trauma and the politics of access to higher education in Syria
This paper examines the relationship between the politics of Higher Education access pertaining to longstanding practices of patrimonial authoritarian politics and the narration of collective trauma. Building on an empirical study of Syrian HE during war, we suggest that a narrative disjuncture within HEIs has a damaging impact not only upon the educational process, HE reconstruction and reform, but also upon the possibility of social reconciliat…
What Happens When an Interview Is Filmed? Recording Memories from Conflict
Many elements come into play when filmmakers set out to record stories, such as the presence of the camera, who else is present in the interview setting, and how the subject positions that the interviewer and interviewee bring with them and/or take up affect the interviewer-interviewee relationship, and, therefore, the recording. Further, a high degree of trust is required in research projects in societies with legacies of political violence. I e…
Memory, place and gender
The film Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol (2015) 1 is a documentary film edited from the Prisons Memory Archive 2 and offers perspectives from those who passed through Armagh Gaol, which housed mostly female prisoners during the political conflict in and about Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles. Armagh Stories is an attempt to represent the experiences of prison staff, prisoners, tutors, a solicitor, chaplain and doctor in ways that are …
Teacher agency
This book offers a thorough examination of teacher agency, addressing a much neglected area of educational research. A theoretically robust work, the authors detail their ecological view of teacher
Inviting Backchat
Creating ‘participatory spaces’
Sexuality education in African contexts is riddled with socio-cultural complexity, tension and taboo. Such tensions are compounded when the focus of intervention is primary school children who are presumed 'innocent'. However, sub-Saharan Africa remains the region of the world most severely impacted upon by the human immunodeficiency virus and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, thus heightening the need to talk to children about sex and sexu…
Recording Memories from Political Violence
Unveiling their worlds
Three decades since the onset of HIV/AIDS, 33.2 million people worldwide are infected and prevalence in Kenya is on the rise. This paper contributes to discussions about HIV/AIDS education and draws on the health promotion approach and the emancipatory theory of Paulo Freire. Freire argued that through dialogue people unveil their world. The researchers used the method of dialogue to facilitate parents' and teachers' reflections on sexuality educ…
Inside stories, memories from the Maze and Long Kesh Prison
In the audio visual recording of memories from political conflict, I look at how memory finds a narrative, how that is informed by location, how the participants perform while being recorded, how ownership of material influences authorship and who the audiences are for these testimonies. Inside Stories, the example that I use in this essay, contains the stories of three former occupants of the Long Kesh/Maze prison comlplex in the North of Irelan…
Collaboration as research
A critical reflection on the production of 'We Never Give Up', a 70 minute documentary film, made in collaboration with the Human Rights Media Centre, Cape Town, on the legacy of apartheid in South Africa and the campaign for reparations
Visualization of the spatial scan statistic using nested circles
Changing the University of London regulations to allow for practice-based media-related PhDs
The evolution of PhD regulations at the University of London in order to accomodate practice research requirements
Reparations in South Africa - a Visit to Khulumani
An account of a research trip to the Khulumani Support Group in Cape Town and its strategies in using storytelling from a violent past as a process to heal and as a method of organisation
Youth Violence
As communities react to an influx of drugs and violence, a concomitant erosion in the social controls and norms may result in the normalization, expectation, and even glamorization of violence. Consequently, violent crime rates may not adequately reflect the overall health of a community or the indirect and long-term effects of repeated exposure to violence, particularly in children. Therefore, qualitative changes in the nature of violence may re…
Firearm injuries among Virginia juvenile drug traffickers, 1992 through 1994
Firearm injuries among Virginia juvenile drug traffickers, 1992 through 1994. C R McLaughlin, S M Reiner, B W Smith, D E Waite, P N Reams, T F Joost, and A S GervinCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.5.751 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Visualization of the spatial scan statistic using nested circles
Experiencing and experimenting
Cultural trauma and the politics of access to higher education in Syria
This paper examines the relationship between the politics of Higher Education access pertaining to longstanding practices of patrimonial authoritarian politics and the narration of collective trauma. Building on an empirical study of Syrian HE during war, we suggest that a narrative disjuncture within HEIs has a damaging impact not only upon the educational process, HE reconstruction and reform, but also upon the possibility of social reconciliat…
Memory, place and gender
The film Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol (2015) 1 is a documentary film edited from the Prisons Memory Archive 2 and offers perspectives from those who passed through Armagh Gaol, which housed mostly female prisoners during the political conflict in and about Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles. Armagh Stories is an attempt to represent the experiences of prison staff, prisoners, tutors, a solicitor, chaplain and doctor in ways that are …
Inviting Backchat
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability
Based on third generation activity theory, this study analyses the interplay between a test-based accountability mechanism and a pedagogical reform that introduced unfamiliar educational experiences (including those popular in other contexts) to implement learner-centred education (LCE) in a cross-cultural teacher education programme in China. Interviews with principals and teachers and school documents in four schools were analysed. Findings que…
The multiplicity and dynamics of the interpreter’s roles in mediating cultural differences
This paper investigates the role of interpreters in addressing cultural differences in the context of a cross-cultural collaborative teacher professional development project. Based on positioning theory, this study employed interpreter-mediated interactions and interviews to reveal the complex roles that interpreters played when interpreting culture-related terms. Findings revealed that interpreters' roles were shifting between those of transmitt…
Firearm injuries among Virginia juvenile drug traffickers, 1992 through 1994
Firearm injuries among Virginia juvenile drug traffickers, 1992 through 1994. C R McLaughlin, S M Reiner, B W Smith, D E Waite, P N Reams, T F Joost, and A S GervinCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.5.751 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Youth Violence
As communities react to an influx of drugs and violence, a concomitant erosion in the social controls and norms may result in the normalization, expectation, and even glamorization of violence. Consequently, violent crime rates may not adequately reflect the overall health of a community or the indirect and long-term effects of repeated exposure to violence, particularly in children. Therefore, qualitative changes in the nature of violence may re…
Changing the University of London regulations to allow for practice-based media-related PhDs
The evolution of PhD regulations at the University of London in order to accomodate practice research requirements
Reparations in South Africa - a Visit to Khulumani
An account of a research trip to the Khulumani Support Group in Cape Town and its strategies in using storytelling from a violent past as a process to heal and as a method of organisation
Collaboration as research
A critical reflection on the production of 'We Never Give Up', a 70 minute documentary film, made in collaboration with the Human Rights Media Centre, Cape Town, on the legacy of apartheid in South Africa and the campaign for reparations
Visualization of the spatial scan statistic using nested circles
Inside stories, memories from the Maze and Long Kesh Prison
In the audio visual recording of memories from political conflict, I look at how memory finds a narrative, how that is informed by location, how the participants perform while being recorded, how ownership of material influences authorship and who the audiences are for these testimonies. Inside Stories, the example that I use in this essay, contains the stories of three former occupants of the Long Kesh/Maze prison comlplex in the North of Irelan…
Recording Memories from Political Violence
Unveiling their worlds
Three decades since the onset of HIV/AIDS, 33.2 million people worldwide are infected and prevalence in Kenya is on the rise. This paper contributes to discussions about HIV/AIDS education and draws on the health promotion approach and the emancipatory theory of Paulo Freire. Freire argued that through dialogue people unveil their world. The researchers used the method of dialogue to facilitate parents' and teachers' reflections on sexuality educ…
Creating ‘participatory spaces’
Sexuality education in African contexts is riddled with socio-cultural complexity, tension and taboo. Such tensions are compounded when the focus of intervention is primary school children who are presumed 'innocent'. However, sub-Saharan Africa remains the region of the world most severely impacted upon by the human immunodeficiency virus and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, thus heightening the need to talk to children about sex and sexu…
Inviting Backchat
Teacher agency
This book offers a thorough examination of teacher agency, addressing a much neglected area of educational research. A theoretically robust work, the authors detail their ecological view of teacher
Memory, place and gender
The film Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol (2015) 1 is a documentary film edited from the Prisons Memory Archive 2 and offers perspectives from those who passed through Armagh Gaol, which housed mostly female prisoners during the political conflict in and about Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles. Armagh Stories is an attempt to represent the experiences of prison staff, prisoners, tutors, a solicitor, chaplain and doctor in ways that are …
What Happens When an Interview Is Filmed? Recording Memories from Conflict
Many elements come into play when filmmakers set out to record stories, such as the presence of the camera, who else is present in the interview setting, and how the subject positions that the interviewer and interviewee bring with them and/or take up affect the interviewer-interviewee relationship, and, therefore, the recording. Further, a high degree of trust is required in research projects in societies with legacies of political violence. I e…
Implementing Educational Reform
Experiencing and experimenting
Cultural trauma and the politics of access to higher education in Syria
This paper examines the relationship between the politics of Higher Education access pertaining to longstanding practices of patrimonial authoritarian politics and the narration of collective trauma. Building on an empirical study of Syrian HE during war, we suggest that a narrative disjuncture within HEIs has a damaging impact not only upon the educational process, HE reconstruction and reform, but also upon the possibility of social reconciliat…
The multiplicity and dynamics of the interpreter’s roles in mediating cultural differences
This paper investigates the role of interpreters in addressing cultural differences in the context of a cross-cultural collaborative teacher professional development project. Based on positioning theory, this study employed interpreter-mediated interactions and interviews to reveal the complex roles that interpreters played when interpreting culture-related terms. Findings revealed that interpreters' roles were shifting between those of transmitt…
Exploring the foundations
The first four articles in this issue are focused upon aspects of research in teacher education. They explore different areas of the field, notably the use of action research and/or lesson study as
Promoting learner-centred education amid the culture of test-based accountability
Based on third generation activity theory, this study analyses the interplay between a test-based accountability mechanism and a pedagogical reform that introduced unfamiliar educational experiences (including those popular in other contexts) to implement learner-centred education (LCE) in a cross-cultural teacher education programme in China. Interviews with principals and teachers and school documents in four schools were analysed. Findings que…
Purposes, politics and passion
There is a theme and a debate running through and around the majority of the papers in this issue, and it is an extremely timely one. The debate is around the aims and purposes of action research (
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