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July 7, 2026Health Education

Towards a deep and reparative wellbeing in schools: confronting historical trauma in Irish education

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EMElaine MurphyCOCatriona O’Toole

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Overview

Conceptual analysis reveals the need for deeper wellbeing initiatives in schools, suggesting systemic change.

Key Points

  • This paper explores how historical and intergenerational trauma affect wellbeing in Irish education.
  • Conceptual analysis of historical literature and trauma theory.
  • Examination of contemporary wellbeing initiatives in the context of Irish education.
  • Critique of the alignment between wellbeing policies and their practical enactment.
  • Current wellbeing initiatives risk superficiality if they ignore historical legacies of trauma.
  • Advancing meaningful wellbeing requires institutional courage to acknowledge past harms.
  • A deeper, reparative approach is necessary to center relational safety in educational settings.

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Murphy et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a4c9754331bc25c9e5f444dhttps://doi.org/10.1108/he-11-2025-0252
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