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Daniel Faas is Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Sociology and Member of the University Council at Trinity College Dublin. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (PhD, MPhil), the University of Stuttgart (MA) and Trinity College Dublin (MA). His research and teaching interests are in the sociology of migration with specific emphasis on the intersection of migration and education. His work focuses on youth identities in relation to immigrant integration, national identity, multiculturalism and social cohesion in Europe, diversity management in educational sites and work places, curriculum design and development, as well as comparative case study methodologies. He is the author of Negotiating Political Identities: Multiethnic Schools and Youth in Europe (Ashgate, 2010). Daniel Faas is winner of the 2012 Provost's Teaching Award at Trinity College, and recipient of the 2009 European Sociological Association award for best journal article (Turkish Youth in the European Knowledge Economy, European Societies 9(4): 573-99). Dr. Faas was Fulbright-Schuman Fellow in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley (2009) and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens (2006-2008). He has acted as expert evaluator for the European Commission (FP7, Cooperation), Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, Swiss National Science Foundation, Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal, and the Volkswagen Foundation. Dr. Faas has served as College Tutor, Senior Link Tutor for Study Group International, Director of International Affairs in the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, and Member of the College International Committee. He has been strongly involved in the College Global Relations Strategy development and implementation, most recently chairing a Task Force on Mobility leading to the publication of a policy report on 'Barriers to Inward and Outward Student Mobility'.

Research Tags

Case-study research Citizenship Community and School Relations Comparative Education Comparative Sociology Educational Planning/Policy Ethnicity & Nationalism in Central Europe EU developments European minority cultures and identities Globalisation Identity politics and social change Knowledge Based Society Migration Migration and Employment Multicultural Education Multiculturalism Qualitative methodologies Race and ethnic studies Social Policy Teacher Education Issues

Research Projects

Project Title

RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN MULTICULTURAL IRELAND (REMI)

From

2014

2015

Summary

Growing secularisation of the population and the arrival of new culturally and religiously diverse migrants are posing new challenges to Irish schools, particularly in the primary sector that has remained largely denominational. Over the last decades other school types have started to emerge as a response to parental demand. Despite these trends, little is known about the growing religious diversity in Ireland and how schools are prepared to cater for growing diversity among the student body. REMI, directed by Dr. Daniel Faas, addresses this research gap. It is an exploratory study that draws on interviews with principals, teachers, parents and pupils across different types of primary schools: Catholic, Educate Together, Church of Ireland, Community National, Muslim and Jewish school to investigate how the provision of religious education differs by school type. It is the first study that includes the new Community National and a Jewish school. Highlighting the voices of children as an information source separate from and in addition to other stakeholders is particularly important for the study. The REMI project builds on insights from an ESRI study on Religious Education in Multicultural Countries (REMC). The project will make a significant contribution to current policy debates in Ireland, particularly in relation to debates surrounding the patronage of schools in the primary school sector.

Funding Agency

Trinity College Dublin

Programme

Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund

Person Months

Project Title

CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT BETWEEN IB AND NATIONAL SYSTEMS (CAP)

From

2012

2014

Summary

This project, directed by Dr. Daniel Faas, analyses the extent to which the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB DP) school curriculum aligns with national standards in Germany and Switzerland in regard to content, cognitive demand, and philosophical underpinnings. It also explores the ways in which the intended non‐scholastic attributes of international mindedness, civic‐mindedness, citizenship, engagement, and motivation compare among IB DP, German and Swiss curriculum documents. The study compares and contrasts mathematics, a modern foreign language (Spanish), geography, history as well as biology in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Berlin (Germany) as well as Zurich and Geneva (Switzerland). It focuses on curricula in the 16 to 19 age range which are important for transition into university. The analysis considers regional and national political contexts, different socio-ethnic compositions of IB and mainstream schools in the two countries and likely impacts on curriculum design and development. It looks at expectations of student thinking including categories such as problem-solving and memorizing formula in mathematics or synthesising and understanding topics in social science subjects. It examines cultural, linguistic and religious heritage, interaction and student involvement, the impact on student and learner identities.

Funding Agency

International Baccalaureate Organization

Programme

Programme Impact, Schools Division

Person Months

Project Title

THE EUROPEANISATION OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION (EURINTED)

From

2010

2012

Summary

Historically, education policy-making has been intertwined with the nation-building project. However, the centrality of the nation-state in education policy-making has been constrained by a wide range of new socio-political and economic phenomena that relate to European integration. The EURINTED project, coordinatated by Professor Panayiotis Angelides at the University of Nicosia, explores the transformation of intercultural education in the context of European integration. It will also indicate the ways in which European education policies are mediated and reframed by national institutions; through case studies of the development of intercultural education in Cyprus and Ireland. This project will examine the types of interaction between European and national intercultural policies; the ways in which European intercultural policies are mediated by national institutions; and the impact of this process for Cypriot and Irish educational policy-making for intercultural education. This project is informed by and runs alongside 'The Intercultural Education Strategy in Ireland: Old Wine in a New Bottle?' study. The purpose of this project is to provide a number of insights into the Europeanisation mechanisms of national intercultural education. The study will thus allow national and European policy-makers as well as educators to reflect on their intercultural educational approaches.

Funding Agency

Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus and the European Regional Development Fund

Programme

Didaktor

Person Months

Project Title

THE INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION STRATEGY IN IRELAND: OLD WINE IN A NEW BOTTLE?

From

2010

2012

Summary

This project, directed by Dr. Daniel Faas, aims to evaluate the implementation of the new Irish Intercultural Education Strategy, launched in September 2010. Ireland has experienced large-scale immigration since 1996, particularly since the 2004 eastern enlargement of the European Union. With immigration presently slowing down as a result of the economic downturn, the issue of how to integrate those already residing in Ireland is now a pertinent issue. Drawing on interviews with two management staff in two primary, two post-primary and two third-level institutions in Dublin, the study analyzes how these define and operationalize interculturalism. The area of how schools and (young) universities like Dublin City University transpose intercultural guidelines into practice merits further research. Although the recent Department of Education and Science-commissioned report 'Adapting to Diversity: Irish Schools and Newcomer Students' identified some of the issues at stake and has informed the development of the Intercultural Education Strategy, little is known about the impact this new initiative will have on schools and how school management and staff understand and respond to migration-related diversity. This study arises out of consultation meetings organized by the Department of Education and Skills and forms the pilot of European collaborative work.

Funding Agency

Trinity College Dublin

Programme

Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund

Person Months

Project Title

CIVIC INTEGRATION IN NORTHWEST EUROPEAN MIGRATION SOCIETIES (CIVITURN)

From

2008

2011

Summary

The CIVITURN project engages with the thesis by Christian Joppke that Western European migration policy is converging towards a liberal consensus of anti-discrimination rights and labour market participation. While these tendencies are undisputable, the project endeavours to demonstrate that migration policies - comparatively studied in Denmark, Britain, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands across a range of policy areas including education and citizenship aspects - are not just 'liberal' but reflective of a civic or republican turn emphasising activity, autonomy, and 'good' citizenship. This turn is manifested in different ways according to national trajectories and public philosophies of integration (which are not the same as fixed archetype 'national models') in part to do with national conceptualisations of citizenship as a response to questions of unity, diversity and Islamic religion. Moreover, these citizen integration strategies are not only nationally diverse, but indicative of national identity concerns/nationalism. The research is in continuation of an EU-funded project (A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship: Legal, Political and Educational Challenges) which focused on the experiences of Muslim and other migrant minorities in Europe. The project is at dissemination stage (please see articles co-authored with Mouritsen, Meer and de Witte).

Funding Agency

Aarhus University Faculty of Social Sciences

Programme

Globalization Inititative

Person Months

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Representations

Details	Date
Editorial Board Member, Irish Journal of Sociology	2014
Editorial Board Member, British Educational Research Journal	2014
Expert Evaluator, Volkswagen Foundation [Challenges - for Academia and Society]	2013
Expert Evaluator, European Commission FP7 Cooperation [Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities]	2012
Expert Evaluator, Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal [Social Sciences and the Humanities]	2012
Expert Evaluator, Swiss National Science Foundation [Humanities and Social Sciences]	2012
Expert Evaluator, Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus [Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities]	2010
Consultant to the Irish Department of Education and Science [Intercultural Education Strategy]	2008-2010
Advisor to the European Commission, DG Education and Culture [Education and Training 2010 Programme]	2007-2009
Local Councillor of Unterreichenbach, District of Calw [and Member of the Administrative Committee]	2004-2009
Member of the Advisory Board and founding member of a centre for world cultures [Afrika Präsenz e.V.]	2001-2003

Languages

Language	Skill Reading	Skill Writing	Skill Speaking
English	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
French	Medium	Medium	Medium
German	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI)	2012	present
American Sociological Association (ASA)	2012	present
Council for European Studies (CES)	2010	present
European Sociological Association (ESA), honorary member since 2009	2007	present
British Educational Research Association (BERA)	2005	present
European Educational Research Association (EERA)	2005	present
International Sociological Association (ISA)	2008	2011
British Sociological Association (BSA)	2006	2011
American Educational Research Association (AERA)	2007	2008

Publications and other Research Outputs

MEER, N., MOURITSEN, P., FAAS, D. and de WITTE, N. , Retracing the 'retreat': Exploring post-multicultural and civic turns in the Netherlands, Britain, Germany and Denmark, American Behavioral Scientist, 2015, Journal Article, IN_PRESS

SAVVIDES, N. & FAAS, D., Does Europe matter? A comparative study of young people's identifications with Europe at a state school and a European School in England, European Journal of Education , 2015, Journal Article, IN_PRESS

'Ireland' in, editor(s)Peter Stevens and Gary Dworkin , The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2014, pp658 - 684, [FAAS, D. and FIONDA, R.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

FAAS, D., HAJISOTERIOU, C. and ANGELIDES, P., Intercultural education in Europe: Policies, practices and trends, British Educational Research Journal, 40, (2), 2014, p300 - 318, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

HAJISOTERIOU, C., FAAS, D. and ANGELIDES, P., The Europeanisation of intercultural education? Responses from EU policymakers, Educational Review, 2014, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

FINE-DAVIS, M. and FAAS, D. , Equality and diversity in the classroom: A comparison of students' and teachers' attitudes in six European countries, Social Indicators Research, 119, (3), 2014, p1319 - 1334, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

'Germany after the 'PISA shock': Revisiting national, European and multicultural values in curriculum and policy discourses' in, editor(s)David Little, Constant Leung and Piet van Avermaet , Managing Diversity in Education: Languages, Policies, Pedagogies, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2013, pp43 - 56, [FAAS, D.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

Education Inquiry, Umeå School of Education, Umeå University, [eds.], 2013, Notes: [Guest editor of special issue on ethnic diversity and schooling in various national education systems. The volume brings together leading researchers who discuss issues of school choice, educational attainment and the role of Muslims in societies across a range of old and new migration destinations in Europe and beyond, March 2013.], Editorial Board, PUBLISHED

FAAS, D., Ethnic diversity and schooling in national education systems: Issues of policy and identity (Introduction thematic section), Education Inquiry, 4, (1), 2013, p5 - 10, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

'Producing class and ethnic identities among Turkish youth in working and middle class schools in Germany' in, editor(s)Lois Weis and Nadine Dolby , Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives, New York, Routledge, 2012, pp91 - 106, [FAAS, D.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

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FAAS, D., Social Integration in Multicultural Schools, Department of Sociology, Jesus and Mary College, 10 February, 2014, Delhi University, New Delhi, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

FAAS, D., How to Write a Research Paper, Department of Sociology, Elphinstone College, 13 February, 2014, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

FAAS, D., The Transnational Lives of Migrants in Europe: The case of Turks, International Conference on Concepts, Communities and Practices: Rethinking the Transnational, 3 September , 2013, Presidency University, Kolkata, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

FAAS, D., Migration, Education and Identities in Europe, Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Migration and Identity , 30 August, 2013, St Xavier's College, Mumbai, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

FAAS, D., Chair of a debate on the motion that 'This House Would Emigrate' as part of the 241st Session of the Historical Society, Trinity College Dublin , 9 March, 2011, Trinity College Historical Society, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

FAAS, D., Integration and Identity Formation among the Second Generation: Lessons from Europe , 40th Annual Theodore G. Standing Lecture on the Human Community, State University of New York at Albany, USA, 9 April , 2010, Notes: [Keynote address sponsored by University of Albany's (SUNY) Department of Sociology], Invited Talk, PRESENTED

FAAS, D., Immigrant Incorporation and Identity: Schooling the Second Generation in Europe, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard, EU Center of Excellence at UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology at Princeton , April, 2010, Notes: [Invited seminars as part of a lecture series across North America], Invited Talk, PRESENTED

FAAS, D., Migration, Integration and Identity: Evidence from Governments, Schools and Youth in Europe, Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies within the Institute of Education, London, 9-10 June , 2010, Notes: [Guest lecturer on the MA Comparative Education (Minorities, Migrants and Refugees in National Education Systems)], Invited Talk, PRESENTED

FAAS, D., Response to the paper 'Islam and the West: To what extent can they be reconciled?', Trinity College Dublin, 18 February, 2010, Dublin University Philosophical Society, Notes: [Guest speaker during the 325th Session opposing the motion: 'Islam is not compatible with Western societies'], Invited Talk, PRESENTED

FAAS, D., National Education in European Migration Societies: Multi - Inter - or Civic Cultural?, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aarhus University, 12 March , 2010, Notes: [Guest speaker on 'The Civic Turn: Integration Politics in North-Western Europe' course], Invited Talk, PRESENTED

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Awards and Honours

Award	Date
Provost's Teaching Award, Trinity College Dublin	2012
European Sociological Association Award for Best Article	2009
Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley	2008
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy	2006
Cambridge European Trust Award, University of Cambridge	2005
Paul Mellon Award, Clare Hall College University of Cambridge	2005
British Economic and Social Research Council Scholarship	2002

Trinity College Dublin

Dr. Daniel Faas

Dr. Daniel Faas

Associate Professor (Sociology)

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