Irish Educational Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Irish Educational Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inclusion of children with disabilities and special educational needs in physical education: an exploratory study of factors associated with Irish teachers’ attitudes, self-efficacy, and school contex36
Does anyone still want to go to lectures? Student perceptions of the face-to-face lecture in an Irish university29
‘It’s up to the teacher’: a qualitative study of teachers’ use of autism EBPs28
Supporting student teachers’ enactment of relational mathematics in the classroom: an Action Research study13
Learning losses amid COVID-19 school closures: evidence from Bangladesh11
Overcoming barriers to teaching 21C skills: the Bridge21 approach11
Parental perspectives on the management of online learning and school readjustment for children with SEN during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons and applications for possible school closures11
Relevant, practical and connected to the real world: what higher education students say engages them in the curriculum11
Exploring a pedagogical model to support teaching new literacy skills in English education – an Irish study10
ChatGPT and university teaching, learning and assessment: some initial reflections on teaching academic integrity in the age of Large Language Models9
Relationships: not the Cherry, but the cake!9
Why are students attending fee-charging second-level schools in Ireland more likely to progress to high-demand university degree courses? Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland longitudinal survey9
Developing culturally responsive school leaders in Ireland and Spain. The evolving role of professional development8
Teachers seconded to continuing teacher education: professional development and the paradox of reaching proficiency8
Why a focus on ‘what is educational?’ matters so much in reconstructing education?8
Same route, different destinations: a cluster analysis of student-teacher types among Palestinian student-teachers living in Israel8
Competition within a multi-campus, merged university – a zero-sum game?8
Teachers’ perspectives on the implementation of an ethical education curriculum in Ireland8
Foreword7
Back to the future? Reflections from 25 years of empirical research on Leaving Certificate assessment in Ireland7
School partnerships in a post-conflict society: addressing challenges of collaboration and competition7
‘I’ll do it tomorrow’: supporting the engagement of primary pre-service teachers through blended, inquiry-based learning7
Mobilising the untapped in the present: a review and response to Karl Kitching Childhood, religion and school injustice , by Karl Kitching, Cork, Cork University Press, 7
Supporting early career teachers’ digital agency: a role for mentorship?7
The social contexts of educational disadvantage: focus on the neighbourhood7
The role of classroom assistants: perceptions and challenges6
Exploring how respect is articulated in Irish education policy, curriculum, circulars and legislation6
The impact of forming a community of practice on teachers’ attitudes and approaches to primary geography6
Teacher education for critical and reflexive interculturality6
Why teachers matter5
Editorial5
Fostering teacher agency: insights from the DCU changemaker schools network5
Numeracy-Meets: an innovative professional development model for adult numeracy practitioners in Ireland5
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice: a quantitative perspective5
Working parents’ experiences of home-schooling during school closures in Northern Ireland: what lessons can be learnt?5
Perspectives of graduates and principals on master’s level initial teacher education in Ireland5
(Pod)casting a wider net: let’s talk [disseminating] education research4
‘Bearing witness to negativity’: towards just futures of education4
Optimising online transversal skills delivery in STEM doctoral education4
School readiness of five-year-old children from socio-economically disadvantaged areas: evidence from the Preparing for Life evaluation4
Navigating a male dominated domain: experiences of female STEM students in higher education in Ireland4
The DEIS programme as a policy aimed at combating educational disadvantage: fit for purpose?4
Researching how student voice plays out in relation to classroom practice in Irish post-primary schools: a heuristic device4
An ecological analysis of teacher perceptions of, and responses to, student unproductive behaviour in Irish primary schools4
Unsupported and unrealistic expectations? Misalignment between teachers’ required knowledge of the law in the Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers and Céim Standards for Initial Teacher Education4
Diversifying the teaching profession4
Recognising autism in girls within the education context: reflecting on the internal presentation and the diagnostic criteria3
Multigroup model of transition experiences: how parents’ school readiness beliefs and practices change with another child in school3
Fostering students’ autonomy within higher education: the relational roots of student adviser supports3
Teaching peace as a matter of justice: toward a pedagogy of moral reasoning3
Hungry for more: early childhood educators’ perspectives on STEM education, teaching and professional development3
Teachers’ understanding of the concept of ‘embedding’ digital technology in education3
Lifting the lid on mathematics grinds at secondary level in Ireland: graduates’ perceptions of the impact of private supplementary tutoring3
School-based mental health interventions: a feasibility study of the R.E.A.C.T. programme3
Addressing educational disadvantage in Northern Ireland 1921–2021: a history of squandered opportunities?3
Irish primary school teachers’ experiences, training and knowledge in first aid3
Critically reflecting on the human and environmental costs of digital technology use in education: considering the role of leadership and school culture3
Examinations and Irish history – Intermediate Certificate history and gauging the official historical narrative, 1926–19683
Strengthening wellbeing in schools after COVID-19: a pilot evaluation of an awareness based intervention for children and young people3
Project based learning in post-primary school in Ireland – a narrative literature review of the transition year programme to understand evolving digital spaces3
‘No one knows where we fit in really’: the role of the Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) in primary school settings in Ireland – the case for a distributed model of leadership to support i3
No one is going to rock up and tell you ! How a hidden blend of family capitals facilitates access to and success in structured instrumental music education in Ireland3
Early childhood education and care in Ireland: charting a century of developments (1921-2021) Early childhood education and care in Ireland: charting a century of developments (1921-2023
Mastering the writing game: practical insights for early career researchers and supervisors3
Taming the imposter monster3
Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning , by Yun Wen, Yi-ju Wu, G3
You Can Do It! A narrative inquiry into children’s experiences of a social-emotional and academic learning programme3
Traveller students being and relating to an/‘other’: identity, belonging, and inter-ethnic peer relationships in a highly diverse post-primary school2
Digital education futures: design for doing education differently2
Emotions: philosophy of education in practice2
Teacher leadership in school self-evaluation: an approach to professional development2
FUSE anti-bullying and online safety programme: measuring self-efficacy amongst post-primary students2
Understanding narrative inquiry through life story interviews with former prisoners2
Editorial2
Improving academic integrity through authentic assessment design2
Teacher preparation in Scotland2
A scoping review of Future Skills frameworks2
Barriers to student engagement:2
SSPAI 1993-2000: a history of the secondary school principals association of Ireland: a key pillar in the foundation of NAPD2
ECCE teachers’ attitudes in Ireland towards including children with special educational needs2
Teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education in primary school: An Irish perspective2
Leading schools in the face of great adversity2
The possibilities and problematics of school evaluation: post-primary teachers’ perspectives on the impact of school inspections in a high stakes inspection system2
Predatory nuns: sexual abuse in North American Catholic sisterhoods2
A systematic literature review of home-school partnership for learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL): a way forward for the UK and Ireland2
Guerrilla teacher educators: identity considerations of school-based teacher educators in Ireland2
An analysis of Irish mathematics textbook tasks in the context of curriculum change2
School culture as a mediator in the link between leadership and school effectiveness2
Science and society in Ireland: examining public trust in scientists against a global background2
‘What's the magic word?’: mapping oral language interventions implemented in prevention and early intervention programmes2
Care and Capitalism Care and Capitalism , by K. Lynch, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2022, 248 pp., €21.50 (paperback), ISBN 97815095438472
Educationally maintained inequality? The role of risk factors and resilience at 9, 13 and 17 in disabled young people’s post-school pathways at 201
Drama-based methodologies and teachers’ self-efficacy in reading instruction1
Navigating the maze: challenges faced by early career researchers1
Editorial1
Coping with the ‘new (ab)normal’ in school: an EMA study of youth coping with the return to in-person education during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Teacher supply in Ireland: anatomy of a crisis1
Student learning outcomes in the Irish context: mixing curriculum paradigms, cultures, and design models1
Supporting singing in Irish primary schools: an evaluation of the YouthSing Ireland pilot project1
Disturbing the teacher’s role as assessor: the case of calculated grades 2020–2021 in Ireland1
The role of emotion in higher education: exploring global citizenship education1
What changes are university students seeking? Bringing employers to classrooms to facilitate post-graduation opportunities1
Barriers to technology integration in the A-level history classroom in Northern Ireland1
Let’s talk about class – exploring the everyday emotions and experiences of classism in Irish education: a thematic analysis of Irish Twitter conversations on class and education between 2018 and 20221
Large-scale, design-based research facilitating iterative change in Irish schools – the Trinity Access approach1
Teachers as media creators and prosumers: exploring the reasons & values behind their YouTube pedagogical activity1
History repeating itself: an investigation of the challenges of teaching civic, social and political education1
Unpacking the motivational variables which impact engagement in Lesson Study: Mathematics teaching self-efficacy and attitudes towards self-development1
Social justice leadership in Irish schools: conceptualisations, supports and barriers1
Education for collective intelligence1
Exploring different visions of scientific literacy in Irish primary science education: core issues and future directions1
‘Just let them have a say!’ Students’ perspective of student voice pedagogies in primary physical education1
From New Public Management to public value: Irish education policy through the lens of Statements of Strategy1
‘Overcoming the fear’: the story of the Irish language in a programme promoting diversity in the primary teaching profession1
The roles of teacher autonomy and personal accountability in explaining Turkish teachers’ job satisfaction1
A ‘Proper’ Woman? One Woman’s Story of Success and Failure in Academia1
Ethno-cultural diversity in initial teacher education courses: the case of Ireland1
Can school-based physical activity interventions be effective without a facilitator? A step-back approach to school-based intervention delivery1
Underachievement among disadvantaged pupils in Dutch primary education1
A pedagogical grey crayon: Dewey’s habit, assumption analysis, and thoughtful practice1
Ready, willing and able’: examining factors affecting the implementation of non-cognitive skills in post-primary schools1
Lockdown lessons learned. Reconceptualising a Sociology of Education module in ITE using a TPACKframework, optimising pedagogy, enhancing student outcomes through the provision of inclusive and access1
Investigating individual learner differences in second language learning1
Musical Futures and Irish primary schools: an investigation into the impact of informal learning and non-formal teaching on music education1
Gendered expectations on the recognition of ADHD in young women and educational implications1
Teacher professionalism in policy texts in the Republic of Ireland; a critical discourse analysis1
Gen Ed1
Adult education in a neoliberal policy paradigm1
Ethical considerations in teacher reflection and research0
Deconstructing the policy narratives at the root of arts-in-education practice in Ireland: a potential othering of teachers at play?0
Codes and control: explicating pedagogic communication in classroom practice0
H2O Heroes: adding value to an environmental education outreach programme through intergenerational learning0
Teaching for social justice and sustainable development across the primary curriculum0
The reactionary use of concepts of secularism, pluralism and freedom of expression: implications for education studies0
Deconstructing the challenges and opportunities for blended learning in the post emergency learning era0
Faith Stories : reclaiming ‘faith’ in and for Irish education0
Turning over a new leaf: PE specialism graduates’ understanding of ‘quality PE’0
‘Time to figure out what to do’: understanding the nature of Irish post-primary students’ interactions with computer-based exams (CBEs) that use multimedia stimuli0
Studies in ethnopragmatics, cultural semantics, and intercultural communication: minimal English (and beyond)0
Evidence based education policy in Ireland: insights from educational researchers0
Exploring the interpersonal, classroom relationships of mainstream teachers and special needs assistants in Irish primary schools0
Educators as creators: lessons from a mechanical MOOC on educational dialogue for local facilitators0
Playful (music) teaching and learning in Irish primary school classrooms0
Using an ‘effective’ model of professional development in science education to improve primary teachers’ classroom practice: the CSSP experience0
Promoting academic resilience in DEIS schools0
The development and implementation of a Peer Mentoring Scheme for Sociology Early Career Academics (ECAs) in Ireland: lessons from research, insights from practice0
You’ll never see his like again0
Lessons from abroad: how can we achieve a socially just educational system?0
School-based Simulated Internships to support dialogic collaboration and authentic links with the world of work: a design-based research study0
Bridging the digital divide: gender and learning mode impacts on pre-service teacher digital competence and online engagement0
Mobile learning in university science education: a systematic literature review0
Using GIS analysis to examine home-school travel in a divided education system: the case of Northern Ireland0
Interpreting, translating, and embedding school curriculum in physical education teacher education: the need for collective action within and across the teacher education continuum0
A comparative case study of student transnational identity positioning in the United States and Ireland0
Religious education in Catholic schools in Ireland and South Korea: complex layers of diversity, policy and teacher agency0
The impact of mandated collaboration in the workplace: a case study of Ethiopian primary school teachers0
Digital pedagogies for future school education: promoting inclusion0
Student support teams: perceptions of the nature, scope and function in post-primary education0
Heads or tails: the relationship between curriculum and assessment in Irish post-primary education0
Pavee Leaders ’ – enablers and inhibitors to accessing higher education for Irish Travellers0
Designing media and information literacy curricula in English primary schools: children’s perceptions of the internet and ability to navigate online information0
Inquiry in teacher education: experiences of lecturers and student teachers0
Virtual Reality in Initial Teacher Education (VRITE): a reverse mentoring model of professional learning for learning leaders0
Does entrepreneurial training change minds? a case study among Southeast Asian business students0
Responding to complexity in disadvantaged school contexts: the role of school networks in building social capital0
The lived reality of educational disadvantage The lived reality of educational disadvantage , Brian Fleming, 2020, 160, Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-78605-115-80
Peer observation of teaching in a post-primary context0
Exploring the relationships between psychological wellbeing, religiosity and religious coping among post-primary school students in Ireland0
Drawing the past to envision the future: supporting the development of primary STEM teacher identity0
A new school-based play approach for young children’s wellbeing: evidence from a 14-week study0
Teacher educators’ perspectives on gender responsive pedagogy in higher education0
Census and sustainability: school provision, urban teenagers, and unequal access to active transport in the Republic of Ireland0
Exploring new frontiers of education using humanoid robots – a case study of patient centred innovation in digital health education0
Second level students’ experiences of creativity: an Irish case study0
Exploring Irish primary school children’s perceptions of themselves as learners in preparation for the key competency of ‘being an active learner’ within the Primary Curriculum Framework0
From recipe to enquiry – a curriculum tool for science teachers to align policy with practice in practical lessons0
Language policy in the crossfire in Ireland: can Languages Connect deliver in the Republic of Ireland?0
Investigating design, implementation and evaluation process of the model eliciting activities: the perspective of model eliciting principles0
Exploring trans-generational and trans-institutional learning: educational action research possibilities in a virtual environment0
Can early intervention for maths anxiety predict better affective and attainment outcomes at primary level? A systematic review0
Purpose, focus and voice? Lessons from a curriculum development advisory committee0
Reimagining a framework for teachers’ continuous professional development during curriculum reform0
Sitting their first-ever state exam at age 18: the impact of COVID-19 on the 2023 Leaving Certificate cohort in DEIS in Ireland0
The cops model for collaborative problem-solving in mathematics0
Mathematics, mindsets, and what it means to be do-ers of math0
Developing critical decolonial awareness and reflection in language teachers at post-primary level: empowering student language teachers as agents of change0
Principal job satisfaction, distributed leadership, teacher-student relationships, and student achievement in Turkey: a multilevel mediated-effect model0
Special schools at the crossroads of inclusion: do they have a value, purpose, and educational responsibility in an inclusive education system?0
The role of expectancy-value theory in upper-secondary level students’ decisions to avoid the study of advanced mathematics0
James Joyce and Education: Schooling and the Social Imaginary in the Modernist Novel0
Teachers’ careers following a secondment to a teacher education support service: post-secondment experiences when coming ‘home’ or going to ‘pastures new’0
Mixed methods or mixed up: a critical exposition on interpretive research undertaken within mixed methods’ studies0
Subjective wellbeing of Cork primary school children0
Editorial0
Exploring children’s knowledge of Irish and European symbols: a comparison of Irish-medium and English-medium primary school children0
Paired Reading as a method of reading intervention in Irish primary schools: an evaluation0
Secondary school staff experiences of supporting and promoting adolescent mental health in Ireland0
‘Children from these communities’: unequal school provision, segregation, and the Irish educational landscape0
A qualitative examination of barriers to disseminating and accessing research in Irish schools0
Parental school choice in post-secular Ireland: insights from Irish primary schools0
An evaluation of lifestart, a universal home-based parenting programme in Ireland aimed at improving parent and child outcomes0
The educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and research0
Teacher stress and work-family conflict: examining a moderation model of psychological capital0
The lived experience of a primary physical education teacher educator engaging in action research: cycling into change0
International perspectives on teacher well-being and diversity: portals into innovative classroom practice0
Impact of a national professional development programme for out-of-field teachers of mathematics in Ireland0
Presence accounted for? student-teachers establishing and experiencing presence in synchronous online teaching environments0
Making a difference in educational inequality: reflections from research and practice0
Workaholism in higher education. An exploration of the cognitive, emotional, motivational, and behavioural elements0
Implementing distributed leadership in Irish voluntary secondary schools from the principals’ perspective0
Digital education futures in Irish educational policy: tempering commercial influence through an exploration of emerging ethical, environmental and educational realities0
Tensions and dilemmas: a narrative inquiry account of a teacher-researcher0
Leadership in teacher design teams for professional development: research synthesis and applications for coaches0
Early childhood educators’ understanding of education for sustainable development0
Identifying creative and participatory approaches to respond to existing challenges for Irish language teaching and learning at English-medium primary school level0
Capturing the perspectives of a diverse range of early childhood education and care stakeholders0
High Achievement in Mathematics and Science among Students in Ireland: An In-Depth Analysis of International Large-Scale Assessment Data Since 20000
Parenting interventions, ADHD and homework: a systematic review0
In history and education, from the Munster Blackwater to the Indian Ocean: an autoethnography0
Multiple crises, multiple sticky plasters: repositioning regimes of truth in ECEC policy to affirmative ethics of interconnection0
Experiential, relational, playful pedagogy in Irish primary schools – possibilities offered by Forest School0
Changing career to teaching? The influential factors which motivate Irish career change teachers to choose teaching as a new career0
Instrumental music education in Ireland: how subsidiarity and choice can perpetuate structural inequalities0
Making the invisible visible: managing tensions around including Traveller culture and history in the curriculum at primary and post-primary levels0
The challenges of teaching maths in Irish in Irish-medium education0
Reflecting on the implementation of Aistear in advance of an update to the curriculum framework0
Initial teacher educators’ integrating iPads into their physical education teaching0
The effect of the use of computer-aided design (CAD) and a 3D printer on the child’s competence in mathematics0
Building upon the conceptualisation of alternative education in Ireland0
Digital education strategies around the world: practices and policies0
The potential of arts partnerships to support teachers: learning from the field0
A kitchen at the heart of a school – an investigation into school meals in the Republic of Ireland0
‘I hate when we learn off the mountains and rivers because I don’t need to know where they all are on a blank map?!’ Irish Pupils’ Attitudes Towards, and Preferred Methods of Learning, Primary Geograp0
Investigating the relationships between pre-service science teachers’ topic-specific personal and enacted pedagogical content knowledge0
Conceptual framework for the participation of children in local area planning decision-making processes through primary geography education0
‘We all have to do our bit': literacy practice, perceptions and policy in Irish primary and post-primary schools0
Teaching vocation or religious vocation: examining the changing identity of Irish teaching sisters c.1940–1970, an oral history approach0
Teaching about curriculum and assessment through inquiry and problem-based learning methodologies: an initial teacher education cross-institutional study0
Teachers’ experience of inquiry into socioscientific issues in the Irish lower secondary science curriculum0
Socio-economic inequalities in access to higher education in Ireland: achievements, failures and possibilities in comparative perspective0
Enabling critical thinking development in higher education through the use of a structured planning tool0
Towards more robust evaluation of policies and programmes in education: identifying challenges in evaluating DEIS and Reading Recovery0
Digital inclusion and accessibility considerations in digital teaching and learning materials for the second-level classroom0
Distributed leadership in Irish post-primary schools: mapping the state of the art0
Outdoor education, interaction and reflection: a study of Irish outdoor ECEC0
English phonics instruction for native Chinese speakers: limiting factors and tailoring strategies0
Identifying the type of transition experienced by newly qualified physics teachers entering the workplace0
School self-evaluation and empowering leadership in DEIS schools: an exploration of success0
The characteristic elements of TeachMeet0
Family perspectives on educational experiences, post-school needs, and quality of life of young autistic adults0
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