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Direct linkJim Gleeson – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
Assessment is often described as the tail that wags the curriculum dog. Curriculum has featured more prominently than assessment in Irish scholarship. Drawing on relevant policy documents and interviews with senior National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) and State Examinations Commission (SEC) officers, and relevant documentation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Context Effect, Secondary Education, Secondary School Curriculum
Daria Khanolainen; Victoria Cooper; David Messer; Elena Revyakina – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
Preparing young people to meet emerging contemporary challenges has become a global imperative. Over two decades, there has been a call for students' active participation in the life of school and society, and an important feature of this call is student-led research (SLR). However, this pedagogical and empowering call with many potential benefits…
Descriptors: Student Research, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Yuying Liu; Shujian Guo; Xuesong Gao – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
This paper focuses on the diaspora Chinese community in Limerick--an Irish county town in the southwest of the Republic of Ireland--and examines how Chinese parents have responded to the education policy shift resulting from the 2017 Irish foreign language strategy, which added Chinese to the official educational curriculum. A semi-structured…
Descriptors: Coping, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Language Planning
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
Baker, Sally; Kim, Hyejeong; Marangell, Samantha; Baik, Chi; Arkoudis, Sophie; Croucher, Gwilym; Laffernis, Farhana – Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2022
Australian universities are places of great diversity and there is broad acceptance that promoting and learning through diversity can enhance all students' university experiences. However, there is little known about how this is done across the Australian higher education sector. As the composition of the student population continues to expand, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Student Experience, Inclusion
Louis Volante; Christopher DeLuca; Nicole Barnes; Menucha Birenbaum; Megan Kimber; Martha Koch; Anne Looney; Jenny Poskitt; Kari Smith; Claire Wyatt-Smith – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
This paper discusses the evolution of assessment for learning (AfL) across the globe with particular attention given to Western educational jurisdictions. Scholars from Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, and the United States discuss prominent assessment reforms within their respective countries over the last decade.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Pandemics, COVID-19
McShane, Stephen; Farren, Margaret – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2023
In this study, we focused on teachers' knowledge and awareness of LGBT+ issues in a Catholic secondary school in Ireland. We explored the barriers teachers encounter that prevent them from being openly supportive of LGBT+ students. For this study, 40 teachers completed an online questionnaire, which was followed by a smaller focus group interview…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Barriers, Secondary School Teachers, Catholic Schools
Aron Foley; Daniel Faas; Merike Darmody – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
Ireland's cultural identity has transformed significantly in the past few decades as a result of large-scale inward migration. Consequently, the creation of culturally responsive school environments has become a major concern in policy discourses in recent years. Despite the prevalence of such discourses, research on the cultural responsiveness of…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Influences
Clarke, Linda; O'Doherty, Teresa – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
It is timely to pause as we reach the centenary of the creation of the contested border which divides Ireland and the advent of Brexit to examine teacher education across the island, revealing intersecting contrasts and similarities which reflect both common origins and increasing divergences. The relatively high esteem of both scholarship and of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Cultural Differences, Educational Policy
Jacobs, Rachael; Finneran, Michael; Quintanilla D'Acosta, Tere – Arts Education Policy Review, 2021
2020 has been marked by disruption on a global scale due to a range of compounding crises including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Many community arts responses to the pandemic originated from individuals rather than by means of concerted or sustained sectoral responses. This paper uses reflections from Ireland, Australia, and Mexico to discuss…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Cultural Differences
Simmie, Geraldine Mooney; Moles, Joanne; O'Grady, Emmanuel – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
This paper examines 'good teaching' within a policy ensemble where teachers' subjectification and practices are underpinned by new modes of evaluation and enforcement. Although the paper is written with specific concern for teachers in the Republic of Ireland, the literature demonstrates that concerns raised resonate internationally. Theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Experienced Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
Brown, Martin; Altrichter, Herbert; Shiyan, Igor; Rodríguez Conde, María José; McNamara, Gerry; Herzog-Punzenberger, Barbara; Vorobyeva, Irina; Vangrando, Valentina; Gardezi, Sarah; O'Hara, Joe; Postlbauer, Alexandra; Milyaeva, Daria; Sergeevna, Natalia; Fulterer, Sieglinde; García, Adriana Gamazo; Sánchez, Lourdes – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Whether voluntary or enforced, increasing patterns of migration have significantly impacted schools by making them linguistically, culturally, religiously and ethnically more diverse than ever before. This increasing diversity requires school leaders to put in place mechanisms to ensure equity of participation for migration background students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Cultural Relevance, Cultural Awareness
Higgins, Edel; Booker, Roger – Health Education Journal, 2022
Background: Schools are well recognised as critical contexts for the promotion of mental health and well-being and offer the potential to reach a large number of children at an early age, at a time when they are developing important attitudes and behaviours that may influence their future health. Ensuing from a number of large-scale…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Health Promotion, Elementary Schools
Brown, Martin; McNamara, Gerry; Cinkir, Sakir; Fadar, Jerich; Figueiredo, Maria; Vanhoof, Jan; O'Hara, Joe; Skerritt, Craig; O'Brien, Shivaun; Kurum, Gül; Ramalho, Henrique; Rocha, João – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
The purpose of this paper, which is part of a three-year EU Erasmus+-funded study titled 'Distributed Evaluation and Planning in Schools' (DEAPS), is to provide an analysis of policies, structures, processes, supports and barriers that exist to enable or inhibit the involvement of students and parents in school evaluation in four European…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Student Participation, Participative Decision Making, Stakeholders
Download full textNohilly, Margaret; Tynan, Fionnuala – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2019
While there is an increasing interest in the notion of well-being--politically, societally and educationally--it remains an enigmatic, multifaceted concept that sometimes eludes definition in academic articles. This article takes account of policy developments in the area of well-being over the last decade in Ireland, particularly educational…
Descriptors: Well Being, Educational Policy, Correlation, Policy Analysis
