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Gareth Burns; Niamh Bird; Katriona O'Sullivan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Precipitated by a recent policy focus on diversifying Ireland's homogeneous teaching profession, there is an emerging research base focused on the experiences of teachers from under-represented groups. However, the life stories of teachers from lower socio-economic groups remain underexplored. Responsive to the mostly atheoretical nature of…
Descriptors: Working Class, Teacher Background, Career Development, Resilience (Psychology)
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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
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Kenny, Ailbhe – Research Studies in Music Education, 2018
This article examines the musical lives of children of asylum seekers living under direct provision in Ireland. Direct Provision is a controversial state system of communal housing for asylum seekers while they wait for their refugee applications to be processed. One third of all asylum seekers living under Direct Provision in Ireland are…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Children, Music Activities
Atherton, Graeme – Sutton Trust, 2020
This report, authored by Graeme Atherton, examines how universities who are seen as leading internationally and/or in their own national contexts are supporting greater access and success for learners from low-income and other marginalised groups. What can English universities learn from global institutions? By looking at how they work with…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Success, At Risk Students, Low Income Students
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Guth, Lorraine J.; McAuliffe, Garrett; Michalak, Megan – Professional Counselor, 2014
As the counseling profession continues to build an international community, the need to examine cultural competence training also increases. This quantitative study examined the impact of the Diversity and Counseling Institute in Ireland (DCII) on participants' multicultural counseling competencies. Two instruments were utilized to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Relevance, Counselor Training, Institutes (Training Programs)
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Harrison, Kathy; O'Hara, Joe; McNamara, Gerry – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: This paper focuses on assessment in Irish education, which, despite best intentions, shepherds students through the process to an extent that the individual is prone to undervalue her/his ability to trust in the self as a rational, self-thinking individual. In Ireland's assessment system lies the paradox whereby from childhood…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation