Browsing School of Education by Subject "parents"

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The 1999 primary school curriculum and your child as a learner

Conway, Paul F. (Liffey Press, 2005)

When a child starts school in junior infants it is as much a land-mark event for the parents as it is for the child. From the very start of a child’s school life, parents, more often than not, ask questions to find out ...
Complicating constructions: middle-class parents of transgender and gender-diverse children

Neary, Aoife (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

Recent years have seen an increase in the visibility of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) children in the public sphere. Jack Halberstam [(2018). Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Vol. 3). University ...
Parental involvement: Irish travellers and early years education

Boyle, Anne; Hanafin, Joan; Flynn, Marie (Queen's University, 2018)

This paper explores Traveller parents’ involvement in Traveller preschools in Ireland. Travellers are a distinct cultural group who have experienced educational disadvantage. Against a backdrop of changing policy paradigms, ...
Reporting to parents in primary school: communication, meaning and learning

Hall, Kathy; Conway, Paul F.; Rath, Anne; Murphy, Rosaleen; McKeon, Jacinta (National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), 2008)

How schools report to parents about the learning of their children is becoming increasingly important and challenging in the light of a) new developments and understanding about learning and assessment, b) Ireland’s ...

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