Three sources of data, two national and one school specific, are used to analyze the characteristics of entrants to primary teacher education in Ireland. Reported are findings on demographic information, academic achievement, perceptions of salary, and prestige of seven occupations, personality traits,...
SummaryThis paper examines recent developments in post‐primary teacher training in Ireland, set against the background of major expansion in the provision of post‐primary schooling. It includes a relatively detailed examination of the consecutive model which is the predominant mode as well as the ...
Gortskehy National School is a five-teacher, co-educational primary school situated in the parish of Roundfort, County Mayo, Ireland.
four schools provided informed consent, with one school withdrawing due to the teacher taking leave. Twenty-eight students from Years 4—6 provided opt-in informed consent to participate from their parents/carers and of those, 26 participated, as two students from different schools were ...
Comparative Education as a subject or course on teacher education curricula mainly continues to be taught in Ireland, some African and East European countries and a few colleges in Ireland, the UK and several universities in the USA, Canada, Western Europe, Latin America and Australia. This ...
This chapter will chart national and international policy initiatives that proved influential and salient in shaping formal and informal approaches to post primary in career teacher education in Ireland. A broad-based approach to policy analysis is intended with particular emphasis on the period since ...
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School of Education, National University of Ireland, Galway, Nuns’ Island, Galway city, Ireland;Taylor & Francis GroupIrish Educational StudiesKeane, E. and Heinz, M. (2015) 'Diversity in Initial Teacher Education (DITE) in Ireland: The Socio-demographic Backgrounds of Postgraduate Post-primary...
Heinz, ManuelaKeane, ElaineTaylor and Francis GroupIrish Educational StudiesHeinz, M. and Keane, E. (2018) `Socio-demographic composition of primary initial teacher education entrants in Ireland', Irish Educational Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2018.1521731...