Lorraine Connaughton-Crean's research while affiliated with Dublin City University and other places

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This article discusses the design and content of an online continuous professional development (CPD) course in special education provision for students in Irish immersion (IM) primary and post-primary schools. The course was developed using the data from a mixed methods study on the needs of teachers in this area. This article describes the ABC cou...
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There are few professional development courses available to teachers with a focus on meeting the special educational needs (SEN) of students in immersion education contexts worldwide. The continuous professional development (CPD) needs of immersion education teachers in SEN are under researched internationally. This study investigated the CPD needs...

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... The course discussed in this article was developed to meet the needs of teachers teaching students with SEN in two sociolinguistic contexts, Irish immersion (IM) Gaelscoileanna and Gaeltacht schools as described below. The course was developed based on the findings of a mixed methods study which investigated the needs of IM primary and post-primary teachers in this area [10]. The ABC course design process was used to design this course. ...
... In our study, we explore how ECEC staff encourage and support the children's HLs across various formal and informal situations. By home languages (HLs), we refer to all languages other than Norwegian that are used in the children's homes (see Connaughton-Crean & Ó Duibhir, 2017). In the following, we firstly present theoretical perspectives and previous research on HL support in mainstream ECEC centres, before describing the methods used in this study, and finally, going on to analyse and discuss our data. ...