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Choice of Scottish Gaelic-Medium and Welsh-Medium Education at the Primary and Secondary School Stages: Parent and Pupil Perspectives
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O'Hanlon, Fiona – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
Results are presented of a comparative study of the reasons for parental choice of Scottish Gaelic-medium and Welsh-medium primary education in the year 2000 and of the reasons for pupils' decisions to continue with Gaelic or Welsh-medium education at secondary school in 2007. Parents in both contexts cited the quality of Celtic-medium education…
Descriptors: Welsh, Indo European Languages, Language of Instruction, Bilingualism
Listening to Children's Views of Spiritual and Metaphysical Concepts: A New Dimension to Educational Psychology Practice?
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Gersch, Irvine; Dowling, Fiona; Panagiotaki, Georgia; Potton, Anita – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2008
Educational psychologists (EPs) have for many years been developing techniques for listening to children. The aim of the present research was to investigate ways of listening to the "spiritual" views of children in order to develop questions that educational psychologists might use as part of the assessment repertoire. The study explored…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Religious Factors, Philosophy
Teachers and Their Ideologies As Mediators of Change. Primary Assessment, Curriculum and Experience: A Study of Educational Change under the National Curriculum.
Osborn, Marilyn; And Others – 1994
This paper reports on findings from a 1990-93 PACE (Primary Assessment, Curriculum and Experience) study concerning the impact of the United Kingdom's Education Reform Act on teachers' professional perspectives and responses to change. Data are drawn from interviews with a national sample of 88 teachers and more intensive classroom study…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Legislation