Dr Anita Gracie

General Information

Teaching Responsibilities

• Coordinator of Primary RE Specialism Years 1-3
• Coordinator of Catholic Religious Education Certificate
• Post-Primary B.Ed Advisor of Studies
• CPD course tutor in Primary Shared Education for the EA CASE TPL Programme
• 1st Year PliCS Programme coordinator
• North-South Student Teacher Exchange Programme coordinator
• Member of college Child Protection and Safeguarding Committee

External Interests / Community Service

• NATRE member
• AULRE member
• CCEA RE Advisory group member
• Churches’ RE Core Curriculum group member
• Methodist Church Board of Education member

Research Interests

• Children’s rights to, in and through education
• The pedagogy of religious education
• The pedagogy of PDMU
• Respect for religious and cultural heritage in education
• Teaching spirituality in the primary classroom
• Shared Religious Education

Background & Qualifications

• EdD QUB (2012)
• Adult Education Diploma in Theology, Milltown Institute of Theology, Dublin (1998)
• H.Dip.Ed RE and Mod.Lang. Trinity College Dublin (1995)
• M.Litt. Reformation History, Trinity College Dublin, (1993)
• BA(Mod.) European Studies with French, Trinity College Dublin (1991)

Research & Scholarship

Journal Articles

Gracie, A. & Brown, A.W. (2019) ‘Controlled Schools in Northern Ireland: De facto Protestant or de facto secular’ in International Journal of Christianity and Education, Vol. 23(3) 349–368.

Greenwood, R., Richardson, N., Gracie, A., (2017) Primary humanities – a perspective from Northern Ireland, Education 3-13, Vol.45:3, 309-319.

Book Chapter

Gracie, A., and Magennis, J. (2024) ‘Looking back, striving forward: Is forgiveness education in the classroom the key to peacebuilding in Northern Ireland?’ in Gerry Czerniawski, Sharon Jones, Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Victoria Pugh & Weipeng Yang (eds.) Curriculum in a Changing World: 50 think pieces on education policy, practice, innovation & inclusion, London, BERA

Gracie, A. (2018) ‘Moving to Multicultural Classrooms: Lessons from the Celtic Tiger’ in Tonna & Madlinska-Michalak, Teacher Education – International Perspectives and Inspirations, Warsaw: TEPE Network. Available at: https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/getFile/38842

Textbook

Gracie, A. & Moloney, D. (2002) World Religions – an A-Level textbook, Scholastech Media Ltd.

Conference Presentations

Gracie, A. (2019) ‘Healing the Scars of Conflict: Teaching Religious Education in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland’ at the 1^st European Conference on Religion and Conflict, Struga, North Macedonia, October 2019

Gracie, A. (2018) ‘Child Protection and Self-Esteem.’ In-Service Teacher Training Workshop: Sneha School, Dehradun, India, April 2018.

Gracie, A. (2017) ‘Pre-Service Educators Learning about Childhood Trauma: location and effectiveness of programme content.’ NI branch of British Psychological Society Conference, 23rd March 2017.

Gracie, A. (2016) ‘Controlled Schools in Northern Ireland – De Facto Protestant or de facto Secular? Shared Education Symposium Queen’s University Belfast’, 16^th December 2016

Gracie, A. (2016) ‘Moving to Multicultural Classrooms – Lessons from the Celtic Tiger.’ Teacher Education and Policy in Europe (TEPE) Network Conference, University of Malta 16-18^th May 2016