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Parental engagement and involvement in supporting (language) learning: lessons from the "bringing Gaelic home" study

open access: yesEducation in the North, 2023
This paper explores the findings of a small-scale mixed methods study set in one school which set out to investigate the effects of the school closures because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and subsequent home-learning periods, on language acquisition in ...
Ingeborg Birnie, Kerrie Kennedy
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign and Bilingual Language Education in the UK and Spain: A Study of Similarities and Differences

open access: yesJournal of Language and Education, 2021
Language learning, as a means to promote intercultural awareness and communication as well as to help citizens prosper professionally, is one of today’s main goals of educational systems around the world. In Europe, several guidelines have been published,
Francisco Javier Palacios-Hidalgo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

School-based relationship and sexuality education intervention engaging adolescent boys for the reductions of teenage pregnancy: the JACK cluster RCT

open access: yesPublic Health Research, 2023
Background The need to engage boys in gender-transformative relationships and sexuality education (RSE) to reduce adolescent pregnancy is endorsed by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...
Lohan Maria   +23 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technology-enabled professional learning in remote rural minority language classrooms

open access: yesEducation in the North, 2020
Participation in professional learning is a challenge for teachers in small remote rural schools, particularly those who teach in a minority language. Multiple factors isolate Gaelic Medium education teachers and make professional learning more difficult
Rachel Shanks   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Benefits of bilingualism - Buannachdan Dà-Chànanas Agus Foghlam Tro Mheadhan Na Gàidhlig

open access: yesEducation in the North, 2009
In this article Christina Walker, Lecturer in Gaelic Medium Education, Aberdeen University, discusses the benefits of bilingualism and Gaelic Medium Education.
Christina Walker
doaj   +1 more source

Cothroman air Foghlam Fad-beatha do dh’oileanaich 'abaich

open access: yesEducation in the North, 2016
Thagh mi an dà artaigil Dè na buannachdan a tha ann an dà-chànanas? agus Cothroman air Foghlam Fad-beatha do dh’oileanaich 'abaich' oir tha na cuspairean a th’ air an deasbad annta a’ buntainn ri foghlam an latha ’n-diugh mar a bha iad aig an àm aig an ...
Christina Walker
doaj   +1 more source

Professional development programmes for teachers moving from majority to minoritised language medium education: lessons from a comparative study

open access: yesLanguage Policy, 2016
Education through the medium of a minoritised language is widely regarded as a critical component of language revitalisation initiatives. Given the demographic and social position of many minoritised languages, however, it may not be easy to find ...
Joanna McPake   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Land and Water Pedagogy in TESOL: Centering Indigenous Knowledges

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of English Language Teaching (ELT), TESOL, and Indigenous knowledges is an important yet often neglected area of inquiry. This paper explores the importance of including Indigenous knowledges – specifically land and water pedagogies – in ELT, TESOL, and broader language education practices. Through duoethnographic inquiry, we –
Paul J. Meighan, Madoka Hammine
wiley   +1 more source

The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 180-188, January/March 2025.
Abstract The forthcoming general election will be the most consequential electoral contest for the Republic of Ireland in a century. The polity is situated in truly novel territory with the potential for an historic first: the incoming of a Sinn Féin‐led, left‐wing government.
Chris Ó Rálaigh
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

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