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Quinn, Penny; McGilloway, Sinead; Burke, Jolanta – Irish Educational Studies, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt education in unprecedented ways. The first school closures in Ireland took place in March 2020, affecting many students, but especially those who were preparing for their end-of-school Leaving Certificate (LC) examinations. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which COVID-19 had impacted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Blanchard, Charlotte; Haccoun, Robert R. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Support provided by the research advisor is understood to be one of the keys to success in higher-level studies. However, support remains a construct operationalised in many different ways, making it difficult to prescribe those behaviours supervisors should adopt or abandon to optimise support offered to students. This self-report study examines…
Descriptors: Faculty Advisers, Social Support Groups, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students
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Neary, Aoife; Gray, Breda; O'Sullivan, Mary – Gender and Education, 2016
This paper draws together [Hochschild's (1979) "Emotion Work, Feeling Rules and Social Structure." "American Journal of Sociology" 85: 551-575; (1983) "The Managed Heart: Commercialisation of Human Feeling." London: University of California Press] concepts of "emotional labour" and "feeling rules"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Psychological Patterns, Sexuality
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Kitching, Karl; O'Brien, Stephen; Long, Fiachra; Conway, Paul F.; Murphy, Rosaleen; Hall, Kathy – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
This paper explores affective dimensions to the positioning of teachers within persistent educational inequalities. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's concept of "affective economies", we argue that inequalities are not maintained through how teachers and student teachers "feel about" "different" students per se. Rather, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Equal Education
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Risquez, Angelica; Sanchez-Garcia, Marife – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
This study investigates how computer mediated communication (CMC) can sustain nourishing and emotionally enriching peer mentoring relations. A peer electronic mentoring program was implemented in an Irish university to facilitate freshmen's transition to college. A sample of 123 participants (42 mentors and 81 mentees) was evaluated with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Peer Relationship, College Freshmen