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University of Birmingham: Birmingham, GB

Professor of Public Education (School of Education)
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Karl Kitching

University College Cork: Cork, IE

Senior Lecturer in Education/Director of EDI (Education (SL) / University (Director of EDI))
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Karl Kitching

The University of Birmingham: Birmingham, GB

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University of Birmingham

Education and qualifications (3)

Institute of Education: London, GB

2006-10 to 2010-04 | PhD (Educational Foundations and Policy Studies)
Education
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Karl Kitching

Dublin City University: Dublin, IE

2002 to 2004 | Master of Education
Education
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Karl Kitching

Dublin City University: Dublin, IE

1998 to 2001 | Bachelor of Education
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Karl Kitching

Works (47)

Education policy and ‘free speech’ on race and faith equality at school

Journal of Education Policy
2025-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl Kitching; Aslı Kandemir; Reza Gholami; Md. Shajedur Rahman
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‘Bearing witness to negativity’: towards just futures of education

Irish Educational Studies
2024-07-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Audrey Bryan; Delma Byrne; Maura Coulter; Thomas Delahunty; Elaine Keane; Karl Kitching; Déirdre Ní Chróinín
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The reactionary use of concepts of secularism, pluralism and freedom of expression: implications for education studies

Irish Educational Studies
2024-06-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl Kitching
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Contemporary, racialised conflicts over LGBT-inclusive education: more strategic secularisms than secular/religious oppositions?

Educational Review
2024-04-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl Kitching
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Care and Capitalism Care and Capitalism , by K. Lynch, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2022, 248 pp., €21.50 (paperback), ISBN 9781509543847

Irish Educational Studies
2024-03-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl Kitching
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Youth Engagement with Race and Faith at School

2023-11-23 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Md. Shajedur Rahman; Karl Kitching; Reza Gholami; Asli Kandemir; Mahfuzur Rahman Khokan
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University of Birmingham

Towards Critical Secular Studies in Education: addressing secular education formations and their intersecting inequalities

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
2023-11-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl Kitching; Reza Gholami
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Sweets are ‘my best friend’: belonging, bargains and body-shaming in working class girls’ food and health relationships

Children's Geographies
2022-09-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl Kitching; Eluska Fernández; Deirdre Horgan
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Contemporary, racialised conflicts over LGBT-inclusive education

Educational Review
2022-03 | Journal article
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Karl Kitching

Walking and talking with girls in their urban environments

Irish Journal of Sociology
2022-03-21 | Journal article
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Karl Kitching

Experiencing School Food Policy and Practice

School Food, Equity and Social Justice: Critical Reflections and Perspectives
2022-02-28 | Book chapter
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Karl Kitching

Guidance on Teaching for Social Justice in Irish Higher Education

2022-01-31 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Karl Kitching; Gyunghee Park; Audrey Bryan; Bernie Grummell; Margaret Keane; Morag Munro
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University of Birmingham

The Development of Teaching for Social Justice in the Irish Higher Education Sector

2022-01-31 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Karl Kitching; Gyunghee Park; Audrey Bryan; Bernie Grummell; Margaret Keane; Morag Munro
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University of Birmingham

COVID-19 and education: positioning the pandemic; facing the future

Irish Educational Studies
2021 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 17474965 03323315
Contributors: Hall, T.; Byrne, D.; Bryan, A.; Kitching, K.; Chróinín, D.N.; O’Toole, C.; Addley, J.
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Parents displaying family consumption in Ireland

Families, Relationships and Societies
2021-12-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2046-7435
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Karl Kitching

Young girls’ experiences of ‘good’ food imperatives in a working class school community: rethinking food desire?

Cambridge Journal of Education
2021-09-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Eluska Fernández; Karl Kitching; Deirdre Horgan
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“A source of anxiety like never before”

Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
2021-06-11 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Elizabeth Kiely; Debbie Ging; Karl Kitching; Maire Leane
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University of Birmingham
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Parents’ encounters with ‘the sexualisation of childhood’: paying attention differently?

Gender and Education
2021-05-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl Kitching; Elizabeth Kiely; Debbie Ging; Máire Leane
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Evidence for the commission on race and ethnic disparities

2021-03 | Working paper | Author
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Contributors: David Gillborn; Kalwant Bhopal; Claire E. Crawford; Sean Demack; Reza Gholami; Karl Kitching; Dina Kiwan; Paul Warmington
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University of Birmingham

Communion, Holy

Sage Publications
2020 | Encyclopedia entry
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Karl Kitching

Racisms, Identity, and Anti-Racist Learner-Citizenship

Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland
2020 | Journal article
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Childhood, Religion and School Injustice

2020-04 | Book | Author
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Contributors: Karl Kitching
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University of Birmingham

Book Review: White privilege: the myth of a post-racial society by Kalwant Bhopal

Journal of Education Policy
2020-01 | Book review
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Karl Kitching

Racisms, identity, and anti-racist learner-citizenship

Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland
2019 | Book
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2-s2.0-85104169002

Contributors: Kitching, K.
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#Slane Girl, beauty pageants and padded bras: flashpoints in the sexualisation of children debate in Irish media and political discourse

Feminist Media Studies
2019-04-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1468-0777
Part of ISSN: 1471-5902
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Karl Kitching
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What can beliefs do? Ethics education and authenticity after postmodernism

Educational Philosophy and Theory
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85057170318

Part of ISBN:

14695812 00131857

Contributors: Kitching, K.
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Karl Kitching via Scopus - Elsevier

A thousand tiny pluralities: children becoming-other than the requirements of postsecular neoliberal policy recognition

Critical Studies in Education
2017-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl Kitching
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How the Irish became CRT’d? ‘Greening’ Critical Race Theory, and the pitfalls of a normative Atlantic state view

Race Ethnicity and Education
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84920683418

Contributors: Kitching, K.
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Knowing how to feel about the Other? Student teachers, and the contingent role of embodiments in educational inequalities

Pedagogy, Culture and Society
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84929950607

Contributors: Kitching, K.; O’Brien, S.; Long, F.; Conway, P.F.; Murphy, R.; Hall, K.
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Children’s Beliefs and Belonging

2015-06-01 | Book | Author
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Contributors: Karl Kitching; Yafa Shanneik
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University of Birmingham

The Politics of Compulsive Education

Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
2014 | Book | Author
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Contributors: Karl Kitching
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University of Birmingham

Governing ‘authentic’ religiosity? The responsibilisation of parents beyond religion and state in matters of school ethos in Ireland

Irish Journal of Sociology
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84973286686

Part of ISBN:

20505280 07916035

Contributors: Kitching, K.
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Karl Kitching via Scopus - Elsevier

Official Literacy Practices Co-Construct Racialized Bodies: Three Key Ideas to Further Integrate Cultural and 'Racially Literate' Research

International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning, and Culture
2013 | Book
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2-s2.0-84886980756

Contributors: Kitching, K.
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Karl Kitching via Scopus - Elsevier

How the Irish became CRT'd?

Race Ethnicity and Education
2013-12-16 | Journal article
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Karl Kitching

Authoring oneself and being authored as a competent teacher

Irish Educational Studies
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84862592921

Contributors: Hall, K.; Conway, P.F.; Murphy, R.; Long, F.; Kitching, K.; O'Sullivan, D.
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Karl Kitching via Scopus - Elsevier

Understanding class anxiety and ‘Race’ certainty in changing times: Moments of home, school, body and identity configuration in ‘new migrant’ dublin

Intersectionality and "Race" in Education
2012 | Book
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2-s2.0-84918876991

Contributors: Kitching, K.
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Addressing the Concept and Evidence of Institutional Racism in Education in Ireland

2012-09-01 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Karl Kitching; Alicia Curtin
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University of Birmingham

Interrogating the changing inequalities constituting 'popular' 'deviant' and 'ordinary' subjects of school/subculture in Ireland: Moments of new migrant student recognition, resistance and recuperation

Race Ethnicity and Education
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79957826769

Contributors: Kitching, K.
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The Mobility of Racism in Education

The Changing Faces of Ireland
2011 | Other
Contributors: Karl Kitching
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Taking Responsibility for Race Inequality and the Limitless Acts Required: Beyond ‘Good/Bad Whites' to the Immeasurably Whitened Self

Power and Education
2011-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl Kitching
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Taking Educational Risks With and Without Guaranteed Identities

Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a ‘Post-Critical’ Climate
2011-01-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781441175229
Part of ISBN: 9781441142344
Contributors: Karl Kitching
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University of Birmingham

THE MOBILITY OF RACISM IN EDUCATION

The Changing Faces of Ireland
2011-01-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9789460914751
Part of ISBN: 9789460914744
Contributors: Karl Kitching
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University of Birmingham

An excavation of the racialised politics of viability underpinning education policy in Ireland

Irish Educational Studies
2010 | Journal article
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Contributors: Kitching, K.
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What makes teachers tick? Sustaining events in new teachers' lives

British Educational Research Journal
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77949552962

Contributors: Morgan, M.; Ludlow, L.; Kitching, K.; O'Leary, M.; Clarke, A.
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Karl Kitching via Scopus - Elsevier

BOOK REVIEWS

Irish Educational Studies
2010-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Sarah C.E. Riley; Karl Kitching
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It's the little things: Exploring the importance of commonplace events for early-career teachers' motivation

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-62649112934

Contributors: Kitching, K.; Morgan, M.; O'Leary, M.
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Karl Kitching via Scopus - Elsevier

Teachers' negative experiences and expressions of emotion: Being true to yourself or keeping you in your place?

Irish Educational Studies
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-70449646480

Contributors: Kitching, K.
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Karl Kitching via Scopus - Elsevier

Peer review (60 reviews for 16 publications/grants)

Review activity for British journal of educational studies. (2)
Review activity for British journal of sociology of education. (1)
Review activity for Childhood. (1)
Review activity for Citizenship studies. (1)
Review activity for Contemporary Islam. (1)
Review activity for Critical studies in education. (4)
Review activity for Discourse. (1)
Review activity for Educational review. (2)
Review activity for Gender and education. (2)
Review activity for Irish educational studies. (9)
Review activity for Irish journal of sociology (2)
Review activity for Journal of education policy. (2)
Review activity for Political studies (1)
Review activity for Race Ethnicity and Education (26)
Review activity for Sexualities (2)
Review activity for Whiteness and education. (3)