Education Studies

Biographical Details:

Dr Ger Scanlon has a broad background in education with experience across several educational settings including early year¿s provision,post primary education, post leaving certificate, and third level. Her interests in experimental psychology, education and research have lead her to develop a unique approach to investigate the attitudes of primary and post-primary teachers to pupils with Special Eductinal Needs (SEN). For example, as a chartered psychologist, her training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and experimental psychology has enabled her to apply the principles of ACT to assessing and altering teachers¿ attitudes to pupils with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) in mainstream education. The aim of which is to develop more effective fulfilling education, integrative inclusion and improved well-being for both parties. Coupled with her interest in Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA), and School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support Programmes (SWPBS), her most recent research project developed targeted interventions to enable teachers to work more effectively with pupils with EBD in mainstream education. This work has enabled her to become an educational consultant to the Limerick Regeneration Group and elements of the programme will be developed to work with teachers, parents and pupils in schools and communities in South hill in Limerick. Her current reserach projects inlcude examining the experiences of pupils with SEN during their transtion from primary to post primary education and the access and progression of routes of student with SEN to further and higher education.

Research Interests:

Positive Behaviour Support Systems in Schools: Pupils with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in mainstream education: The application of Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) to mainstream post primary systems: The intergration of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to educational systems: Children with Special Edcuational Needs in primary and post primary settings: Promoting Inclusionary Practices in Mainstream Post Primary Schools:Transition from primary to post primary in mainstream and special school settings: Access and progression routes for student with SEN to further and higher education settings. Mindfullness in Education.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

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Selected Chapters

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• Dr. Geraldine Scanlon. 2011. Psychology in Education. Educationa Studies in Ireland: Key Disciplines

Reviews

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Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

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• Barnes-Holmes, Y., Scanlon., G, Lodge, A., Desmond, D., Shevlin, M., & Vahey, N. 2011. The Study of Transition from Primary to Post- Primary School for Pupils with Special Educational Needs. The National Council for Special Education, Under Review,
• Dr. Geraldine Scanlon,Barnes-Holmes., Yvonne, & Lodge, Ann. 2011. Promoting inclusion for students with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD): Intervention to support change in teacher attitudes and practice. The National Council for Special Education, In Press,
• Dr. Geraldine Scanlon. 2008. ADHD and Self-Image. The Psychologist, 21,
• Scanlon, G., & McGilloway., S. 2005. Managing children with special needs in the irish education system: A professional perspective. REACH Journal of Special Needs Education in Ireland, 19, pp81-93.

• Scanlon, G.,& Barnes-Holmes.Y., Intervention programmes for teachers: Supporting pupils with Social Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in mainstream education, Social Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association. Transforming Troubled Lives., - , Keble College. Oxford. England
• Scanlon, G. & Barnes-Holmes. Y., Promoting inclusive practices for managing pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties in mainstream education, Inclusive and Supportive Education Congress: Promoting Diversity and Inclusive Practice, - , Queens University Belfast
• Scanlon G., & Barnes-Holmes. Y., Pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties in mainstream education. Interventions to support change, The Thirty-Sixth Annual Convention of the Association for Behaviour Analysis International, - , San Antonio. Texas
• Scanlon, G., Barnes-Holmes., Y, & Lodge. A., The transition experiences of pupils with special edcuational needs and their parents moving from primary to post primary school., The Irish Association of Teachers in Special Education. Sustaining Quality in Schools: Creativity, Innovation and Best Practice., - , St. Patricks. Drumcondra. Dublin.
• Scanlon., G, Barnes-Holmes., Y, & Lodge. A., Transition experiences of pupils with SEN : From primary to post-primary education, The 35th Conference of the Educational Studies Assocation of Ireland. Border,Boundaries and Identities. Education in Challenging Times., - , Crowne Plaza. Dundalk. Co. Louth
• Bell, S., Smith, A., Scanlon, G., Shevlin, M., & Mc Guckin, C., Enabling positive transition outcomes for pupils with Special Educational Needs from second level to further / higher education, The Thirty-Fifth Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Annual Conference, , - , Crown Plaza Hotel, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland
• Shevlin, M., Winter, E., Rose, R., O'Raw, P., Scanlon, G., & Mc Guckin, C, Investigating developments in inclusive school provision in Ireland, The Psychological Society of Ireland Annual Conference, The Sheraton Hotel, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, - , The Sheraton Hotel, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
• Bell, S., Devecchi, C., Mc Guckin, C., Shevlin, M., & Scanlon, G., Enabling inclusive transitions: Examining the voices of young people with special educational needs as they experience transition from school to further or higher education in Ireland. , 3rd EMSENIC (Erasmus Mundus Special Education Needs International Conference): Towards inclusion: Being with others., - , Roehampton University, London, England
• Bell, S., Smith, A., Scanlon, G., Shevlin, M., & Mc Guckin, C., Direct line or scenic route? Enabling positive transition outcomes for children with special educational needs as they progress from school to further or higher education. , Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Teachers in Special Education (IATSE): Sustaining Quality in Schools: Creativity, Innovation and Best Practice, - , St Patrick¿s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9,
• Mc Guckin, C., Scanlon, G., Shevlin, M., Devecchi, C., & Bell, S., The influences and role of multiple agencies on the transition of young people with special educational needs in their transition from school to further and higher education in Ireland, The British Psychological Society (Northern Ireland Branch) Annual Conference,, - , The Manor House Resort, Killadeas, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland,
• Mc Guckin, C., Scanlon, G., Shevlin, M., Bell, S., & Devecchi, C., The progression of students with special educational needs to further and higher education. , The Psychological Society of Ireland Annual Conference,, - , The Sheraton Hotel, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland