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This article explores the "Making A Difference Today (MAD2DAY) Group", a group of young people who came together over the past 24 months in order to support the participation and involvement of young people in the Western Area Children's Services Plan
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This paper was written by the Making A Difference Today (MAD2DAY) Group, which is a group of young people who came together over the past 24 months in order to support the participation and involvement of young people in the Western Area Children's Services Plan. This group, supported and mandated by the Western Area Children and Young People's Committee, has been based on the core more...
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 9 Page: 214-216 2003
Stieneke Willis; Fiona Mullin; Geraldine Murphy; Emma McCaffrey; Michael Harrigan; Nicola Rodgers; Darren Boyle
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The aim of this study was to examine the definition, level and type of parental involvement, and reasons for, that exists in nursery schools, nursery classes and playgroups in Northern Ireland++
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The aims of this paper are: To examine the definition, level and type of parental involvement that exists in nursery schools, nursery classes and playgroups in Northern Ireland; To focus on the reasons for involvement, together with perceived problems and advantages; To compare parental and professional viewpoints in order to ascertain whether definitions, expectations and perceptions more...
International Classification:
Other - parental school involvement
Categories:
parental school involvement
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Care in Practice,
Vol: 11 Page: 119-134 2005
Dorothy J. McMillan
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This article is a commentary of the special series on involving fathers in psychological services for children
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This paper is a commentary of the special series on involving fathers in psychological services for children. The following themes are addressed: the effects of fathers on child development; benefits of father involvement in child psychology services; obstacles to father involvement; engaging fathers; specific interventions for fathers; and implications for service development, training more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice,
Vol: 13 Page: 94-97 2006
Alan Carr
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This study examines the views of working-class parents on home-school links
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Presents the views of working-class parents on home-school links. Group interviews with parents of pupils in a primary school in the disadvantaged areas scheme in the Republic of Ireland suggest that parental involvement in school is limited to the giving and receiving of information, restricted consultation, and engagement in some supplemental responsibilities. Although parents were more...
International Classification:
Education
Categories:
home-school links in working class families
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
British Journal of Sociology of Education,
Vol: 23 Page: 35-49 2002
Joan Hanafin; Anne Lynch
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This study examined Irish primary school teachers' readiness to become involved in nondirective play therapy
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This small, qualitative study examined Irish primary school teachers' readiness to become involved in nondirective play therapy. Six teachers from a mixed sex school participated. Experiential data, gathered using a focus group and semi-structured interviews, were interpreted from a social constructionist perspective, with grounded theory employed for data analysis. Non-directive play more...
International Classification:
Education
Categories:
nondirective play therapy
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Educational and Child Psychology,
Vol: 24 Page: 73-86 2007
Thérèse O'Dowd; Virginia Ryan
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