Irish Educational Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Irish Educational Studies is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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 contex51
Does anyone still want to go to lectures? Student perceptions of the face-to-face lecture in an Irish university39
Supporting student teachers’ enactment of relational mathematics in the classroom: an Action Research study24
Re-positioning strategies: the positioning challenges of newly appointed school principals19
‘It’s up to the teacher’: a qualitative study of teachers’ use of autism EBPs16
Relevant, practical and connected to the real world: what higher education students say engages them in the curriculum16
Why a focus on ‘what is educational?’ matters so much in reconstructing education?15
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 closures14
Learning losses amid COVID-19 school closures: evidence from Bangladesh14
Overcoming barriers to teaching 21C skills: the Bridge21 approach14
Relationships: not the Cherry, but the cake!12
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 survey12
Irish primary school teachers’ views on heritage language maintenance in plurilingual pupils11
ChatGPT and university teaching, learning and assessment: some initial reflections on teaching academic integrity in the age of Large Language Models10
Teachers’ perspectives on the implementation of an ethical education curriculum in Ireland10
Same route, different destinations: a cluster analysis of student-teacher types among Palestinian student-teachers living in Israel10
Teachers seconded to continuing teacher education: professional development and the paradox of reaching proficiency10
(Un)Confidently aspiring: the perspectives of children from diverse social class, migrant and ethnic minoritised backgrounds about their future careers9
Back to the future? Reflections from 25 years of empirical research on Leaving Certificate assessment in Ireland9
Developing culturally responsive school leaders in Ireland and Spain. The evolving role of professional development9
Competition within a multi-campus, merged university – a zero-sum game?9
How should teacher professional development be designed for curriculum reform? The case of applied mathematics8
‘I’ll do it tomorrow’: supporting the engagement of primary pre-service teachers through blended, inquiry-based learning8
The social contexts of educational disadvantage: focus on the neighbourhood8
Reclaiming Black Irish school narratives: an autoethnographic counter-narrative of unequal schooling8
Supporting early career teachers’ digital agency: a role for mentorship?8
Foreword7
The impact of forming a community of practice on teachers’ attitudes and approaches to primary geography7
Fostering teacher agency: insights from the DCU changemaker schools network7
Perspectives of graduates and principals on master’s level initial teacher education in Ireland7
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
Teacher education for critical and reflexive interculturality7
Exploring how respect is articulated in Irish education policy, curriculum, circulars and legislation7
Diversifying the teaching profession6
Editorial6
Navigating a male dominated domain: experiences of female STEM students in higher education in Ireland6
The role of classroom assistants: perceptions and challenges6
Numeracy-Meets: an innovative professional development model for adult numeracy practitioners in Ireland6
(Pod)casting a wider net: let’s talk [disseminating] education research6
Why teachers matter6
An ecological analysis of teacher perceptions of, and responses to, student unproductive behaviour in Irish primary schools6
The impact of parental involvement on early childhood development: the moderating role of demographic factors6
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 Education5
Exploring randomised controlled trials in education: key features and selected examples from Ireland5
Optimising online transversal skills delivery in STEM doctoral education5
Recognising autism in girls within the education context: reflecting on the internal presentation and the diagnostic criteria5
‘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 i5
Teaching peace as a matter of justice: toward a pedagogy of moral reasoning5
Fostering students’ autonomy within higher education: the relational roots of student adviser supports5
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice: a quantitative perspective5
Addressing educational disadvantage in Northern Ireland 1921–2021: a history of squandered opportunities?5
School-based mental health interventions: a feasibility study of the R.E.A.C.T. programme5
‘Bearing witness to negativity’: towards just futures of education5
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 Ireland4
Lifting the lid on mathematics grinds at secondary level in Ireland: graduates’ perceptions of the impact of private supplementary tutoring4
Examinations and Irish history – Intermediate Certificate history and gauging the official historical narrative, 1926–19684
An evaluation of the art of science project; an intervention to promote digital storytelling in a cross-curricular (art and science) and cross sectoral (primary and post-primary) environment in Irelan4
Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning Expanding global horizons through technology enhanced language learning , by Yun Wen, Yi-ju Wu, G4
Taming the imposter monster4
Mastering the writing game: practical insights for early career researchers and supervisors4
Irish primary school teachers’ experiences, training and knowledge in first aid4
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 (1921-2024
Hungry for more: early childhood educators’ perspectives on STEM education, teaching and professional development4
Project based learning in post-primary school in Ireland – a narrative literature review of the transition year programme to understand evolving digital spaces4
Teachers’ understanding of the concept of ‘embedding’ digital technology in education4
Understanding through stories –the lived experience of students’ mental health difficulties in Irish Higher Education4
Critically reflecting on the human and environmental costs of digital technology use in education: considering the role of leadership and school culture4
Multigroup model of transition experiences: how parents’ school readiness beliefs and practices change with another child in school4
The continuous call for school-university partnerships: a thematic review of policy in the Republic of Ireland4
Strengthening wellbeing in schools after COVID-19: a pilot evaluation of an awareness based intervention for children and young people4
School culture as a mediator in the link between leadership and school effectiveness4
Science and society in Ireland: examining public trust in scientists against a global background3
Irish nuns and education in the Anglophone world: a transnational history3
Innovation or education? Creating spaces for appearance in initial teacher education3
FUSE anti-bullying and online safety programme: measuring self-efficacy amongst post-primary students3
Teacher leadership in school self-evaluation: an approach to professional development3
Coaching in educational leadership: interferences to school principals’ engagement3
Emotions: philosophy of education in practice3
‘What's the magic word?’: mapping oral language interventions implemented in prevention and early intervention programmes3
Guerrilla teacher educators: identity considerations of school-based teacher educators in Ireland3
Ireland’s ESD to 2030: second national strategy on education for sustainable development: enough to catalyse sociocultural transformation?3
A scoping review of Future Skills frameworks3
An analysis of Irish mathematics textbook tasks in the context of curriculum change3
Teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education in primary school: An Irish perspective3
‘One of them is the way I think, the other is the way I am’: the lived educational experiences of autistic trans and nonbinary students in the Republic of Ireland3
Barriers to student engagement:3
Understanding narrative inquiry through life story interviews with former prisoners3
Leading schools in the face of great adversity3
Literacy for equitable interprofessional learning: implementation protocol for an online community of practice for Irish teachers and speech and language therapists3
A systematic literature review of home-school partnership for learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL): a way forward for the UK and Ireland3
Editorial3
ECCE teachers’ attitudes in Ireland towards including children with special educational needs3
SSPAI 1993-2000: a history of the secondary school principals association of Ireland: a key pillar in the foundation of NAPD3
You Can Do It! A narrative inquiry into children’s experiences of a social-emotional and academic learning programme3
Exploring different visions of scientific literacy in Irish primary science education: core issues and future directions2
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 access2
Investigating individual learner differences in second language learning2
Education for collective intelligence2
Traveller students being and relating to an/‘other’: identity, belonging, and inter-ethnic peer relationships in a highly diverse post-primary school2
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 pandemic2
Digital education futures: design for doing education differently2
Teachers as media creators and prosumers: exploring the reasons & values behind their YouTube pedagogical activity2
Underachievement among disadvantaged pupils in Dutch primary education2
Editorial2
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 20222
Teacher supply in Ireland: anatomy of a crisis2
Improving academic integrity through authentic assessment design2
Predatory nuns: sexual abuse in North American Catholic sisterhoods2
Student learning outcomes in the Irish context: mixing curriculum paradigms, cultures, and design models2
Ready, willing and able’: examining factors affecting the implementation of non-cognitive skills in post-primary schools2
Unpacking the motivational variables which impact engagement in Lesson Study: Mathematics teaching self-efficacy and attitudes towards self-development2
Teachers talking drama: perceptions, practices and challenges in Irish primary schools2
Social justice leadership in Irish schools: conceptualisations, supports and barriers2
Knowledge of autism and attitudes towards inclusive education for autistic pupils: a representative survey of school communities in Ireland2
The possibilities and problematics of school evaluation: post-primary teachers’ perspectives on the impact of school inspections in a high stakes inspection system2
Care and Capitalism2
‘Just let them have a say!’ Students’ perspective of student voice pedagogies in primary physical education2
Musical Futures and Irish primary schools: an investigation into the impact of informal learning and non-formal teaching on music education2
Supporting singing in Irish primary schools: an evaluation of the YouthSing Ireland pilot project2
Editorial1
A ‘Proper’ Woman? One Woman’s Story of Success and Failure in Academia1
The cops model for collaborative problem-solving in mathematics1
The roles of teacher autonomy and personal accountability in explaining Turkish teachers’ job satisfaction1
Developing critical decolonial awareness and reflection in language teachers at post-primary level: empowering student language teachers as agents of change1
Large-scale, design-based research facilitating iterative change in Irish schools – the Trinity Access approach1
Schools work! (re-) affirming the special supportive role of primary schools in the lives of vulnerable children1
History repeating itself: an investigation of the challenges of teaching civic, social and political education1
Evaluation of creative activities prepared with an ethnomathematics approach from the perspective of realistic mathematics education principles1
Ethno-cultural diversity in initial teacher education courses: the case of Ireland1
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
The role of emotion in higher education: exploring global citizenship education1
Exploring trans-generational and trans-institutional learning: educational action research possibilities in a virtual environment1
Lessons from abroad: how can we achieve a socially just educational system?1
Assessing the perceived effectiveness of a Montessori-influenced trauma-informed practice (TIP) programme for contemporary early childhood teachers1
Student engagement in the Irish primary classroom: the role of socioeconomic disadvantage, student voice, and behavioural difficulties1
Promoting academic resilience in DEIS schools1
Can school-based physical activity interventions be effective without a facilitator? A step-back approach to school-based intervention delivery1
Purpose, focus and voice? Lessons from a curriculum development advisory committee1
A pedagogical grey crayon: Dewey’s habit, assumption analysis, and thoughtful practice1
From New Public Management to public value: Irish education policy through the lens of Statements of Strategy1
Gendered expectations on the recognition of ADHD in young women and educational implications1
Disturbing the teacher’s role as assessor: the case of calculated grades 2020–2021 in Ireland1
Drama-based methodologies and teachers’ self-efficacy in reading instruction1
What changes are university students seeking? Bringing employers to classrooms to facilitate post-graduation opportunities1
Virtual Reality in Initial Teacher Education (VRITE): a reverse mentoring model of professional learning for learning leaders1
A qualitative examination of barriers to disseminating and accessing research in Irish schools1
Teaching vocation or religious vocation: examining the changing identity of Irish teaching sisters c.1940–1970, an oral history approach1
Teacher professionalism in policy texts in the Republic of Ireland; a critical discourse analysis1
Interpreting, translating, and embedding school curriculum in physical education teacher education: the need for collective action within and across the teacher education continuum1
Relationality and recognition: can relational practices in alternative education interrupt narratives of educational disengagement?1
Playful (music) teaching and learning in Irish primary school classrooms1
Navigating the maze: challenges faced by early career researchers1
Exploring the interpersonal, classroom relationships of mainstream teachers and special needs assistants in Irish primary schools1
Barriers to technology integration in the A-level history classroom in Northern Ireland1
Changing career to teaching? The influential factors which motivate Irish career change teachers to choose teaching as a new career1
Spaces between importance and enactment: building from teachers’ everyday understanding of, and capacity for, global citizenship education1
Exploring well-being and ill-being in education: disciplinary insights and curriculum perspectives1
Adult education in a neoliberal policy paradigm1
‘Overcoming the fear’: the story of the Irish language in a programme promoting diversity in the primary teaching profession1
Measuring success: a school-university partnership model for widening participation in higher education1
The role of expectancy-value theory in upper-secondary level students’ decisions to avoid the study of advanced mathematics1
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