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Direct linkSarah 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
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)
Aibhín Bray; Cliona Hannon; Brendan Tangney – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
Trinity Access (TA) is a post-primary initiative, in the authors' university, that offers programmes for students, teachers and schools in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. The aims of the programme include helping students develop the knowledge, networks and skills needed to make informed decisions about future educational opportunities, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Barriers, Postsecondary Education
Amalia Fenwick – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
This paper examines the unique challenges faced by the 2023 Leaving Certificate cohort in Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) in Ireland due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on the significant impact of the pandemic on students who will be sitting their first-ever state examination at the age of 18. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Environmental Influences
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
Download full textDonnelly, Alice; Holland, Eimear; King, Fiona; Clasborn, Anna K. M. Tapper; Lunney, Ellen; Higgins, Jill; Gormley, Laoíse; Harford, Leona; McElvaney, Mary – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2019
This article reflects upon teachers' engagement in a Leadership for Inclusion Community of Practice (LIn-CoP), which utilised the Participatory Action Learning Action Research (PALAR) strategy. The study explored if and how engagement could support teachers to develop and exercise leadership for inclusion, using Grudnoff, Haigh, Cochran-Smith, Eil…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Teacher Leadership, Communities of Practice
Eadaoin J. Slattery; Deirdre Butler; Michael O'Leary; Kevin Marshall – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
Minecraft Education is a popular digital game-based learning platform designed for use in educational settings. This study explores teachers' experiences of using Minecraft Education as an educational tool to foster the development of key competencies and skills in students. Semi-structured interviews with Irish primary school teachers (N = 11)…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Video Games, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Experience
Devenney, Roisin; O'Toole, Catriona – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
In recent years, there has been a growing concern about the issue of school refusal, particularly given the adverse effects on young people's social, emotional and educational development. School refusal is understood differently within contemporary literature; as a symptom of an underlying mental illness or disorder, or alternatively, as a signal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Attendance, Mental Disorders, Secondary Education
Óhidy, Andrea; Riddell, Sheila; Boutiuc-Kaiser, Alina – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2022
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) recently had its 30th anniversary. Emerging from the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, it has since become the most ratified international human rights treaty ever. Most European countries ratified it and are thus obliged to ensure the implementation of children's rights in practice.…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Access to Education, Civil Rights, Minority Groups
Wijeratne, Dinali; Dennehy, Denis; Quinlivan, Shivaun; Buckley, Lucy-Ann; Keighron, Cameron; Flynn, Sharon – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2022
Inclusion in Information Systems (IS) has received significant attention in recent years, but inclusion in IS curriculum design and delivery is comparatively underdeveloped. Understanding and working with diversity in IS student groups has implications for how we prepare students for a diverse workplace and the design and development of IS…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Student Diversity, Inclusion, Foreign Countries
Howley, Donal – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2022
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread adaptations and unprecedented realities in the way teaching and learning in physical education (PE) is currently being implemented and experienced globally. Understanding the similarities and differing realities of some of these experiences across contexts and countries can help to inform…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Physical Education
Mohan, Gretta; Carroll, Eamonn; McCoy, Selina; Mac Domhnaill, Ciarán; Mihut, Georgiana – Irish Educational Studies, 2021
COVID-19 school closures have seen the homeplace become a school-place for students and their families in Ireland. This paper presents research on the resources and supports available for students to engage with learning in their home environments. Evidence from a nationally representative survey comprising one third of second-level school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Keane, Elaine; Heinz, Manuela; Eaton, Patricia – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
The lack of diversity in the teaching profession is recognised internationally [Schleicher, A. 2014. "Equity, Excellence and Inclusiveness in Education: Policy Lessons from around the World." Paris: OECD]. Research shows consistently that teachers from majority socio-economic and ethnic groupings dominate, often in contrast to school…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation)
Delisle, Jason D.; Hauptman, Arthur M. – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
Supporters of free college in the US often point to countries that do not charge tuition to argue for the policy. However, international examples often illustrate that free-college policies entail unintended consequences. Ireland offers a particularly apt case study on that point. In the mid-1990s, Ireland abolished tuition for full-time…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tuition, Educational Policy, Case Studies
Evans, Stephen – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
The Skills for Jobs White Paper and funding and accountability consultation set out the Government's plans to introduce a greater focus on the outcomes of learning, including a new Skills Measure that looks at the employment and other outcomes that learners achieve. Will this give colleges and providers greater freedom to deliver for learners, or…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Accountability, Outcomes of Education, Employment
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