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Examining educational psychologists' perspectives of their role in the Republic of Ireland: an exploratory study using activity theory
(2023-10-24)
Background: With the 2015 change from masters to doctoral level for educational psychology training in Ireland and the 2016 change in Health Service Executive (HSE) eligibility criteria for the recruitment of psychologists ...
The experience of Irish-medium and English-medium primary schools for children with down syndrome and their parents
(2023-10-24)
Background
Recent studies indicate that learners with Down syndrome can become competent bilinguals and biliterates. However, less is known about whether immersion education is a suitable and beneficial education setting ...
What is strong over what is wrong: an exploration of Irish educational psychologists' use and perceptions of strengths based practice
(2023-11-03)
The present research aims to explore how Educational Psychologists (EPs) employ strengths based practice (SBP) and to elicit their thoughts and experiences of working from a strengthsbased lens. Research in the area of SBP ...
What are primary school teachers' attitudes toward introversion in students?
(2023-11-06)
The existing literature suggests a potential implicit social desirability associated with the extrovert personality and as a result, extroverts are accommodated across various work and educational settings, leading to a ...
Exploring the impact of educating students about autism in a secondary school
(2023-11-03)
Aims: This research aims to further our understanding of the impacts of educating secondary school students about autism. Of note, AsIAm’s Autism Awareness Workshop is not evidence-based. This study is not evaluating or ...
An evaluation of the school based wellbeing intervention welcome to wellbeing for young children
(2023-11-03)
Background: Wellbeing has become a valued aspect of education in recent years. However, further exploration of wellbeing and wellbeing interventions with young children still needs to be completed. Additionally, there needs ...
A case study of beginning teachers’ lived experiences of engagement with parents, particularly parents of children with special educational needs
(2023-09-19)
The research study aimed to make a contribution to the knowledge-gap in the area of parent-teacher engagement. Specifically, it sought to explore the nature of eight beginning teachers’ lived experiences of engagement with ...
An investigation into collaborative practice between the class teacher, special education teacher (SET) and speech and language therapist to identify and meet the needs of students with speech, language and communication difficulties (SLCD) in Irish primary schools
(2023-09-26)
The number of students presenting with Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties (SLCD) represents a significant cohort of the student population nationally and internationally, according to the literature. These ...
Refugee and asylum-seeker youths’ experiences of education in Ireland an interpretative phenomenological analysis
(2023-09-26)
Background: School can play an important protective role in the lives of refugee youth. While a substantial body of research relates risk factors to subsequent psychosocial and educational outcomes for refugee youth, less ...
Father engagement with disability services: the perceptions and experiences of fathers and psychologists
(2023-09-26)
Background and Aims: This study sought to explore father engagement with disability services in Ireland by capturing the perceptions and experiences of fathers of children with an intellectual disability or developmental ...