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Direct linkLouise Lennon Malbasha; Jocelyn Dautel; Laura K. Taylor – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
Knowledge of symbols, which can be influenced by school ethos, informs identity construction in primary school children. This study aimed to explore Gaelscoil (Irish-medium) and English-medium primary school children's familiarity with Irish and European symbols. Thirty 9-12-year-old children in Ireland participated in this study; 15 from two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Knowledge Level, Irish
Hayes, Nóirín, Ed.; Walsh, Thomas, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2022
This edited book explores the origins and evolution of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) system on the island of Ireland since the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921. While the book acknowledges and celebrates the role of parents in caring for and educating their young children within the home, the key focus is on the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Murray, Clíona; Lynch, Andrea; Flynn, Niamh; Davitt, Emer – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
In newly multilingual communities, where the language of education can no longer be assumed to be the home language of students, debates around language education policy can reflect broader sociocultural and political assumptions. As Ireland has become increasingly diverse in recent decades, the core compulsory status of the Irish language has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Irish
Alison MacKenzie; Joanne O'Keeffe; Allen Thurston; Nina O'Neill – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
Despite the growth and popularity of Irish-medium Education (IME) in Northern Ireland, the sector has not received the same levels of state support and funding as has heritage language education in the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Educating children in an immersive language setting, particularly in a minority or endangered language,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Mathematics Instruction, Irish
Iker Erdocia; Susanna Nocchi; Mary Ruane – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The processes of formulation of language policies have not been researched thoroughly. This paper aims to explore the relationship between ideas, power and agency in language policy-making and specifically with reference to the formulation of language-in-education policy for multilingualism in Ireland. Through an argumentative approach to language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Foreign Countries
Mac Gearailt, Breandán; Mac Ruairc, Gerry; Murray, Clíona – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
This is a time of great change, vulnerability and possibility for the Irish language and for Irish-medium education. Research shows the language in serious decline in the Gaeltacht; areas of Ireland designated as being predominantly Irish speaking. There are also inconsistent approaches at the policy level in addition to an ambiguous attitude to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Educational Policy, Language Usage
Sinéad Nic Aindriú; Pádraig Ó Duibhir; Joe Travers – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Additive bilingualism has long been reported as a benefit of immersion education. Nevertheless, the suitability of this form of education and bilingualism for children with special educational needs (SEN) has been much debated. Recent studies show that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), specific speech and language disorder (SSLD), and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Irish, Grade 2
Mhic Mhathúna, Máire; Nic Fhionnlaoich, Fiona – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
This study investigated the reasons Irish parents chose to send their children to Irish-medium preschools settings over other forms of early childhood education. The international literature on parental decision making regarding childcare and relevant studies on immersion education in Celtic countries were reviewed. A parental questionnaire,…
Descriptors: School Choice, Language of Instruction, Bilingual Education, Irish
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
Mary, Barrett; William, Kinsella; Prendeville, Paula – Irish Educational Studies, 2020
While the Irish language (Gaeilge) is the traditional language of Ireland, it is spoken on a daily basis by a decreasing minority of people. There is an increasing trend for parents to send children, whose first language is English, to Irish-medium schools, where the language of instruction is Irish. Little research has been undertaken regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education, Irish
Herzog-Punzenberger, Barbara; Altrichter, Herbert; Brown, Martin; Burns, Denise; Nortvedt, Guri A.; Skedsmo, Guri; Wiese, Eline; Nayir, Funda; Fellner, Magdalena; McNamara, Gerry; O'Hara, Joe – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
Global mobility and economic and political crises in some parts of the world have fuelled migration and brought new constellations of 'cultural diversity' to European classrooms (OECD 2019). This produces new challenges for teaching, but also for assessment in which cultural biases may have far-reaching consequences for the students' further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Social Bias, Secondary School Teachers
Murphy, Gavin – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
Sparse attention in the educational leadership literature is given to those leading immersion schools, despite the established connection between educational leadership and context, including cultural context. By eliciting principals' accounts of practices in leading Irish language-medium immersion education in secondary schools, this study begins…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Attitudes, Secondary Schools
Ní Ríordáin, Máire – Irish Educational Studies, 2018
The specific role of language in the teaching and learning of mathematics in bilingual contexts has been well documented. Previous research has tended to focus on the negative impact of language on learning, but there is a move towards a non-deficit view of bilingualism and utilising language-as-resource in the mathematics classroom. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language of Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
Download full textMichael Markey – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
Our aim here is to investigate reading in a foreign language from a multilingual perspective. Much research has focused on first- and second-language reading, especially the important role played by strategy deployment in helping readers to make meaning from texts in different languages. Less emphasis has been placed, however, on how bilinguals…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, French, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills
Nic Aindriú, Sinéad – Language and Education, 2022
There have been many instances when parents have been advised by educational professionals against bilingualism or immersion education for their child with special educational needs (SEN). Some parents follow the advice given and decide to use only one language with their child, mainly the majority language of the community. This study…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, Special Needs Students, Irish
