{"id":3636,"date":"2016-11-08T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2016-11-08T19:01:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:01:13","slug":"saoghal-thormoid-dimairt-foghlam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2016\/11\/08\/saoghal-thormoid-dimairt-foghlam\/","title":{"rendered":"Saoghal Thormoid: Dim\u00e0irt – Foghlam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dimairt\"<\/a>An d\u00e8idh a chuid smuaintean a chur an c\u00e8ill air an sgaradh eadar Caitligich is Pr\u00f2stanaich ann an Glaschu, tha Tormod a’ bruidhinn air a shlighe foghlaim fh\u00e8in, le tuairisgeul beothail, br\u00ecoghmhor, tro bhun-sgoiltean ann an Loch Abar, Beinn na Faoghla is Glaschu, agus air adhart gu Bellahouston Academy agus Oilthigh Ghlaschu.\u00a0 Tha e a’ m\u00ecneachadh nam bacaidhean agus nan roghainnean c\u00e0nain a rinn e fh\u00e8in is daoine eile, aig an taigh agus anns an sgoil, agus e a’ beachdachadh air an t-suidheachadh eadar G\u00e0idheal is Gall ann an Glaschu, agus cuid de na roghainnean foghlaim a rinn e aig an \u00e0m.<\/p>\n

After offering some further thoughts on the dominant Catholic-Protestant divide in the Glasgow of his youth, Norman goes on to trace his educational journey, with customary vivid detail and illustrative anecdote, through primary schools in Lochaber, Benbecula and Glasgow, and on to Bellahouston Academy and Glasgow University. He discusses the constraints on, and the opportunities for, varied language choices he and others made in these contexts, within and outwith home and school environments, reflecting also on the G\u00e0idheal-Gall relationship in Glasgow, and some of the wider educational choices he made at that time.<\/em><\/p>\n