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Direct linkJoanne O'Flaherty; Orla McCormack – Pastoral Care in Education, 2023
Set against a context where care for the person, others, and the world in which we live receives increasing attention in the policy and practice nexus, this paper sets out to explore how "care" is understood and reflected in Irish educational legislation, policies, circulars and curricula. The importance of focusing on care has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caring, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Gleeson, Jim – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
Through the lens of contrasting curriculum cultures, the author considers the evolution of Irish curriculum policy and reform. Whereas our curriculum thinking and practice are grounded in an Anglo-Saxon/American culture, Didaktik curriculum culture and Stenhouse's Process model provide valuable alternative perspectives. Our prevailing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Nikolaj Broberg; Gillian Golden – OECD Publishing, 2023
Module A of the OECD Higher Education Policy Survey (HEPS) 2022 elicited information on policies to promote digitalisation of higher education in OECD member and accession countries. In total, 30 jurisdictions responded, providing comparative information on various areas of digitalisation policy, from regulation and governance to financial and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Judith Harford; Brian Fleming; Áine Hyland – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
2022 marks one hundred years since the foundation of the Irish State, and thus an appropriate time in which to reflect on how educational policy has shaped the nation over the course of a century. This article examines one hundred years of education policy through an equality lens, asking how the concept of educational equality has been…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational History, Equal Education, Educational Change
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
Vossensteyn, Hans; Kolster, Renze; File, Jon; Mostafa, Ola; Ayalew, Yibeltal; Huisman, Jeronen; Seeber, Marco; Vukasovic, Martina; Gladushyna, Olesya; Muehleck, Kai; Gwosc, Christoph – European Commission, 2018
To obtain a better understanding of country-specific policies, a country-specific literature review was undertaken. The search entailed key-terms focusing on relevance and the three higher education relevance dimensions. The main outcomes of the country-specific literature review are discussed in this chapter. We do so by analysing the typically…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
O'Flaherty, Joanne; Mccormack, Orla – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
Schools have long been identified as important sites in terms of instilling values within the next generation. In order to develop our understanding of values, this paper sets out to explore how values are understood in Irish educational legislation, policies and curriculum. Irish Legislation, policies and curricula were searched systematically.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Values Education, Educational Policy, Educational Legislation
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
Fleming, Brian; Harford, Judith; Hyland, Áine – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
The year 2022, one hundred years since the foundation of the State, provides an opportunity to reflect on the development of policy in relation to educational equality over the course of the last century, including promises made and opportunities lost. This article looks back at one hundred years of education policy through an equality lens,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
Vossensteyn, Hans; Kolster, Renze; File, Jon; Huisman, Jeroen; Seeber, Marco; Vukasovic, Martina; Muehleck, Kai; Gwosc, Christoph – European Commission, 2018
The country case studies are part of the empirical data collected for the "Promoting the Relevance of Higher Education" project. Before presenting the case studies, this introductory chapter describes how the 8 case studies were selected, the case study methodology, and provides an overview of the interviewed organisations and experts.…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Higher Education, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
Clark, Serena; Gallagher, Ellen; Boyle, Neasa; Barrett, Michael; Hughes, Corey; O'Malley, Niamh; Ebuenyi, Ikenna; Marshall, Kevin; O'Sullivan, Katriona – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world struggled to address growing educational inequalities and fulfil the commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 4, which seeks to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. The pandemic has exacerbated these inequalities and changed how education…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Academic Achievement
McConkey, Roy; Kelly, Caraoisa; Craig, Sarah; Shevlin, Michael – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2016
Inclusive rather than segregated schooling has been advocated in several significant international declarations during the past two decades. Even so children with significant intellectual disabilities are at greater risk of being excluded from mainstream education, unless particular efforts are made to support them in such settings. These children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Mainstreaming, Special Schools
Rodden, Bridget; Prendeville, Paula; Burke, Sheena; Kinsella, William – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
Research on the role of teachers in supporting students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in schools in the Republic of Ireland has largely focused on primary and special schools rather than secondary school settings. This study examined the theoretical and practical knowledge base of Irish secondary teachers regarding the inclusion of learners…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Autism
Key Competences for All: Policy Design and Implementation in European School Education. Final Report
Looney, Janet; O'Shea, Majella; Staring, François; Vicentini, Letizia; Wisniewski, Jerzy; Frøhlich Hougaard, Karsten; Day, Laurie – European Commission, 2022
The overall aim of the study was to gather evidence on effective policy reforms for broad competence development in school education, including better achievement of basic skills. The six key objectives are: Objective 1: To understand the key features of policy design and implementation of reforms for broad competence development and achievement…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Kieran, P.; Mc Donagh, J. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
In Ireland primary RE is a fractured, contested, complex and changing territory devoid of a common language and characterised by a proliferation of syllabi and curricula generated for increasingly diverse school types. For centuries the dynamic decolonising process has led to a questioning of former orthodoxies and an attempted de-linking of the…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Course Descriptions, Postcolonialism, Critical Theory
