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Niamh Lafferty; Michael Sheehan; Conor Walsh; Anna Mai Rooney; Patricia Mannix McNamara – Cogent Education, 2024
Teachers' engagement with high quality continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities has repeatedly and consistently been linked to an array of positive outcomes for students, teachers, and the wider school community. In light of this, multiple countries have developed and designed frameworks for CPD, such as Cosán in Ireland, the CPD…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Faculty Development, Educational Quality, Educational Opportunities
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Gavin Murphy; Thomas Brennan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
In the Republic of Ireland, school leadership policy adopts a distributed leadership model nationally. Given that this is a relatively recent policy development, research conducted on distributed leadership to date has highlighted that there are particular challenges for school leaders in enacting this model in practice and, more significantly,…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Foreign Countries, School Administration
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Duggan, Alice; Karakolidis, Anastasios; Clerkin, Aidan; Gilleece, Lorraine; Perkins, Rachel – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Background: Socioeconomic characteristics are persistently and systematically related to academic outcomes, despite long-standing efforts to reduce educational inequality. Ireland has a strong policy focus on alleviating educational disadvantage and has seen significant improvements in mathematics and science performance in recent years. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Equal Education, Elementary Schools
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Ring, Emer; O'Sullivan, Lisha – Childhood Education, 2019
Transforming schools to ensure every student has the opportunity to learn requires innovation at the teacher education level. The goal of inclusion is complex, and so it is critically important to prepare teachers to lead organizational change that will increase engagement and achievement of children with diverse learning abilities.
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Teacher Competencies, Learner Engagement, Educational Opportunities
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O'Toole, Barbara – Irish Educational Studies, 2015
The 2011 "Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector" presented Ireland with an opportunity to rethink the issue of patronage in Irish primary schools, as well as to consider how "religious education" might be approached in such schools in the future. This paper suggests that, for the first time since 1831, Ireland…
Descriptors: Educational History, Religious Education, Beliefs, Foreign Countries
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education