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Direct linkKeddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Seunghyun Baek; Ben Dyson; Donal Howley; Yanhua Shen – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
Despite growing attention on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in education settings (Jones, S. M., McGarrah, M. W., & Kahn, J. (2019). Social and emotional learning: A principled science of human development in context. "Educational Psychologist," 54(3), 129-143. https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1080/00461520.2019.1625776), there also has been…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Emotional Learning, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education
Vani Borooah; Colin Knox – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
This paper focuses on two aspects of gender inequality in Irish higher education: inequality in participation by gender and inequality of performance by gender, institution and subject. We use a rich set of data from the Higher Education Authority of Ireland which detail inter alia enrolment in institutions of higher education--Universities and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation, Academic Achievement
Sarah Lavan; Lindsay Malone; Rosalind Threadgold – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2024
This practice-based paper provides a case study of a new initiative developed by Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board with support from South East Technological University. The My Voice, My Choice Initiative is an inclusive approach to engaging learners with intellectual disabilities in Higher Education (HE). The learners were…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Students with Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability
Finnborg S. Steinþórsdóttir; Freyja Barkardóttir – European Journal of Education, 2024
Education is pivotal in the global effort to reduce inequalities. Through education, there are numerous opportunities to advance gender+ equality both within and outside of educational institutions. Gender budgeting, a strategy designed to align policies, plans and financial decisions with gender equality commitments, was used in this research to…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Sex Fairness, Elementary Education, Equal Education
Helen Lowe – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
This paper examines attitudes to classism in Irish education using a thematic analysis of social media conversations about social class between 2018 and 2022. Previous research indicates that Irish education systems are designed by and favour the dominant and ruling classes. However, few studies use the voice of the lived experience to explore the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Experience, Social Bias, Social Class
Sarah Lavan; Lindsay Malone; Rosalind Threadgold – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2024
This practice-based paper provides a case study of the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board's (WWETB) Rainbow Connection Initiative. The initiative employs badges as a visible symbol of inclusivity and staff commitment, actively seeking to address issues and challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning,…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Barriers, Minority Group Students, Adult Education
Reay, Diane – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
This article draws on case studies from abroad to illustrate what to avoid and what to promote in the quest for a socially just educational system. It first looks at the range of goals different countries have pursued in relation to education. It then focuses more closely on policies in a range of European countries, that have inhibited or enabled…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Access to Education, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Gerry Jeffers; Carmel Lillis – Educational Studies, 2024
Aspirations to combat educational inequality and disadvantage in Ireland feature strongly in policy documents of recent decades. Teachers and their concerns are not always to the forefront in such publications or, indeed, in associated research. For this study, 20 teachers and school principals who work in schools located in communities with…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Educationally Disadvantaged
Hsiao-Ping Hsu; Janice Mak; Jennifer Werner; Janel White-Taylor; Melissa Geiselhofer; Alan Gorman; Carolina Torrejon Capurro – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2024
As part of an international collaborative design-based research initiative, this study examines the applications and perceptions of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) among pre-service primary teachers within an Irish educational program. It focuses on how personal and academic uses of Gen AI influence their perceptions of using Gen AI…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Student Attitudes, Artificial Intelligence, Teacher Education Programs
Lynda Smyth – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
In recent times, the role of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), as a public service within Irish society has been illuminated. In the twenty-first century, although crises may unfold on a global scale, the response from society is galvanised at local level. Amongst other functions, ECEC is ideally positioned to form part of a local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Dorothy Conaghan – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
In Ireland access to instrumental music education (IME) largely operates through the private market. Unlike other European countries Ireland does not have a music school law or policy position. The purpose of this article is to examine how a long-established history of subsidiarity which is enshrined in the Irish Constitution together with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Equal Education
Sprong, Stefanie; Skopek, Jan – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Education is key to the structural integration of immigrants and their children. While research indicates that educational inequalities by migration background are a serious issue, relatively little is known about when, how and why they develop. The current paper adds to the literature by investigating to what extent achievement gaps by migration…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Academic Achievement, Equal Education, English (Second Language)
Oliver McGarr – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
Acknowledging the reproductive function of schools, this paper explores three pivotal periods of Irish second-level education over the past century and considers how these periods were influenced by the political context at that time. The analysis shows that an insular nationalistic period that used schools as a vehicle for social and cultural…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Political Influences
Download full textGavan Sheridan – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2023
This is a critical reflection upon the Quality and Qualifications Ireland (2018) guidelines on blended learning from the perspective of a Further Education and Training practitioner. The purpose of the guidelines is set out and it is suggested that there is much to be welcomed here. The contested meaning of the term blended learning is explored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Qualifications, Quality Assurance
