Browsing by Subject "Inclusive education"
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All singing from the same hymn sheet? An exploration of the lived experiences of joint work between Irish mainstream primary school teaching staff and NEPS psychologists to facilitate inclusion between 2015-2020.
(2023-10-02)Background. The role of the NEPS psychologist is said to have evolved in recent years in response to the global inclusion movement. In Ireland, the introduction of Circular 0013/2017 provided primary schools with greater ... -
The effectiveness of a school-based test anxiety intervention at primary-level
(2023-10-02)Background Test anxiety (TA) is characterised as an extreme fear of assessment which has a debilitating effect on performance. Despite growing concern over TA in primary-level education in Ireland, research on evidence-based ... -
An examination of the special education teacher allocation model to support inclusion in Irish primary schools
(2021-11-18)The global movement towards inclusive education (Anderson et al. 2007; Garrote et al. 2017) sees a fundamental obligation on State to provide an effective model which supports and enables school staff to include and cater ... -
The experience of Irish-medium and English-medium primary schools for children with down syndrome and their parents
(2023-10-24)Background Recent studies indicate that learners with Down syndrome can become competent bilinguals and biliterates. However, less is known about whether immersion education is a suitable and beneficial education setting ... -
Intercultural education in the Irish primary classroom
(The SPHE Network, 2021)As a result of rapidly increasing inward migration over the last twenty years, Ireland has changed to become a nation with a wealth of diversity. As a result, schools have had to ensure pupils from a range of diverse ... -
‘One Gives You Roots, the Other...Wings’: Understanding the experiences of children on the autism spectrum and their parents as they co-navigate the Irish early years education system together
(2021-02-19)This study explores the experiences of parents and their young children before, during and after accessing preschool and primary school education, placing particular emphasis on the factors that enabled or hindered their ...