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The impact of equine assisted learningJill Carey Festina Lente
Ireland
Jill Carey Festina LenteIreland
Equine Assisted Learning
The Project Background
Funding
Profile
Referrals
Programme / Sessions
Mainstreaming
Research objectives
Methodology
Results
Festina Lente : Horses & People Bray, Co Wicklow (32,000)
Est. 1988
40 staff
32 horses
Training
Employment
Therapeutic Riding
Equine Assisted Learning
Recreational riding
Research UCD
QUEENS UNIVERSITY
Masters
PhD
Equine assisted learning on youth experiencing educational
inequity
Can it make a difference?
Equine Assisted Learning
Self-awareness Self-confidence
Equine Assisted Learning
Self-Esteem Personal Effectiveness
Social Skills Behavioural issues
Equine Assisted Learning
The Research
4 Programmes
88 children / parents / teachers T1, T2 & T3
Interviews with 2 children / parents / teachers
Self- report and observer
Measures : Children : 3 questionnaires
Parents/Teachers : 2 questionnaires
Interview Schedules
Mixed Methods – Quantitative & Qualitative
• Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire (Goodman, 1997)
• Life Effectiveness Questionnaire (Youth at risk, O’Neill, 2003)
• Piers Harris Self-Concept Scale (1986)
Open ended questionnaires
Participants - Gender
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Male Female
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Ages of Young People
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5
10
15
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25
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18
Results are based on T1 , T2 & T3
Interviews for all four Programmes
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Youth Parents Teachers
Time 1
Time 2
Time 3
Response Rate
NUMBER OF SESSIONS COMPLETED
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Strengths & Difficulties Total Scores
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16
Youth Parent Teacher
Time 1 Time 2
Piers Harris Self-concept
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14
Intellectual & School
Status
Physical Appearance
Freedom from
anxiety
Happiness &
Satisfaction
Popularity Behaviour
Time 1
Time 2
Time 3
Strengths and DifficultiesYoung People
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2
4
6
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16
Hyperactivity Conduct Peer problems Total
Time 1
Time 2
time 3
Strengths & DifficultiesParents
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1
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6
Emotional Conduct Hyperactivity Peer problems
Time 1
Time 2
Time 3
Strengths & Difficulties Teachers
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1
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Emotional Conduct Hyperactivity
Time 1
Time 2
Time 3
Life Effectiveness Questionnaire
5.2
5.4
5.6
5.8
6
6.2
6.4
6.6
6.8
7
Self esteem Problem solving Self confidence Boundaries risk taking responsibility
Time 1
Time 2
About listening………. It makes me listen a lot more to what people have to
say - Before I’d listen, hear it, but I wouldn’t really listen to it, like take consideration
I’d hear people, but I wouldn’t listen
But, now I , I’m a listener. I’d sit down and listen to someone talk for hours, I’d understand and say how I’d feel
About confidence…..
“I feel more confident in school and around people now”
“she’s a lot more confident in different things that she does”
Conclusions…..at this point