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Stories from school! A narrative inquiry exploring primary teachers' experiences of school-based teacher education
(2021-04-07)
‘Stories from School!’ is a personal, philosophical, and educational endeavour which applies narrative (Clandinin and Connelly,1990,1994,1995,1996, 2000; Clandinin 2006, 2013, 2020, Speedy, 2001, 2008; Kim 2016; Craig 2011, ...
Get up! Stand up! (version 2) : an evaluation of a school-based social skills programme
(2020-01-07)
Background: Social and emotional (SE) skills play an important role in a person’s development, while a range of negative outcomes are associated with poor SE skills (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning ...
An Exploration of the use of therapeutic intervention across school psychology services in Ireland
(2020-01-27)
Aims: Educational legislation in the United Kingdom (UK) of the 1980s, in support of children and young people with additional needs, placed a duty on educational psychologists (EPs) to complete statutory assessments ...
Teacher perspectives on the transition planning process into post-secondary education (PSE) for students with a diagnosis of autism in post-primary schools in Ireland
(2020-01-08)
Aims: This study explored teachers’ perspectives on transition planning (TP) into post-secondary education (PSE) for students with autism attending mainstream classes or an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) unit attached to ...
Positive youth development and resilience amongst early school leavers
(2020-01-24)
Early School Leaving (ESL) represents a massive loss of potential to individuals who leave school and can have a much wider social and economic cost. This study examines Early School Leaving (ESL) and resilience among young ...
"I want them to have a good education" : The "New Irish" parents and the primary school system
(2020-02-07)
Just over one in 10 primary school age children in Ireland are first-generation immigrants (Department of Education and Skills [DES] 2018a). An even larger number of Irish primary school pupils have at least one immigrant ...
An examination of the career aspirations of Irish children within the framework of goal contents theory
(2020-02-07)
Aims: This study explored the following questions: (a) what are students‟ career aspirations and goal contents? (b) are there predictive factors of students‟ career aspirations and goal contents? (c) how do students‟ career ...
An exploration of psychological wellbeing in Irish forest schools
(2020-12-10)
Background: Forest School is a form of regular and repeated outdoor learning. Children may access Forest School across a range of different settings, including primary school. There is evidence emerging in the literature ...
Education in West Africa as a contested space between global politics and local cultures: an exploration through critical discourse analysis
(2020-12-17)
This research contributes to the discourse on resolving some of the challenges facing contemporary education-formal schooling across West Africa, particularly the challenge of resentment toward formal schooling in the ...
Trauma-informed approaches in schools: the efficacy of the ‘trauma-sensitive schools training package’
(2020-12-17)
Background Experiencing childhood trauma can cause substantial negative lifelong outcomes. Research demonstrates educational settings may mitigate against these adverse effects by adopting whole-school, trauma-sensitive ...