Browsing School of Education (Scholarly Articles) by Author "|~|"
Now showing items 1-14 of 14
-
Contradictions and tensions of the practice of masculinities in school: interrogating embodiment and 'good buddy talk'
Kehler, Michael; Davison, Kevin; Frank, Blye (Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2005)Masculinity, and gender more broadly, has been theorised as a series of performative and discursive acts (Butler, 1990) which are constituted contextually and culturally. Not only are masculinities enacted differently ... -
Dependence-Deconstruction: Widening Participation and Traditional-Entry Students Transitioning from School to Higher Education in Ireland
Keane, Elaine (2011)Equality and quality in higher education (HE) are frequently juxtaposed in the literature. This paper presents evidence to contest deficit assumptions about widening participation, particularly the belief that entering HE ... -
Digital Ensemble: The ENaCT design-based research framework for technology-enhanced embodied assessment in English education
Flanagan, Eilis; Hall, Tony (WILEY, 2017-03-16)This article outlines the ENaCT educational design for Digital Ensemble, an innovative approach to English assessment integrating drama pedagogy with mobile computing (e. g. iPad). ENaCT represents the key themes that ... -
Distancing to self-protect: The perpetuation of inequality in higher education through socio-relational dis/engagement
Keane, Elaine (2011)This paper explores the social class-differentiated behaviours of access and traditional-entry students, based on a three-year constructivist grounded theory study with 45 undergraduates at an Irish university. The participant ... -
'Frictional' relationships tension in the camp: focusing on the relational in under-represented students' experiences in higher education
Keane, Elaine (2009)Drawing upon data collected as part of a research project exploring diversity in Irish higher education, this article focuses on the relational realm of under-represented students¿ experiences. It commences with a brief ... -
Innovative initiatives: targeting the declining science enrollments in Ireland
Davison, Kevin; McCauley, Veronica; Sullivan, Kevin (The New Zealand Annual Review of Education, 2006)At the time of economic growth in Ireland, declining numbers of students enrolling in the sciences is emerging as an educational concern. Using a 2002 Government of Ireland commissioned report on science: The Task Force ... -
Lay theories regarding computer-mediated communication in remote collaboration
Parke, Karl; Marsden, Nicola; Connolly, Cornelia (International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), 2017)Computer-mediated communication and remote collaboration has become an unexceptional norm as an educational modality for distance and open education, therefore the need to research and analyze students' online learning ... -
Performance anxiety in academia: Tensions within research assessment exercises in an age of austerity
Holland, Charlotte; Lorenzi, Francesca; Hall, Tony (SAGE Publications, 2016-08-24)The current recessionary economic climate in Ireland has (re-)awakened a neoliberal agenda that is changing the dynamic of what is being valued within research assessment exercises, specifically across Arts, Humanities and ... -
R-NEST: Design-based research for technology-enhanced reflective practice in initial teacher education
Thompson Long, Bonnie; Hall, Tony (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2015)This paper reports research into developing digital storytelling (DST) to enhance reflection within a specific professional learning context - that of a programme of teacher education while concomitantly producing a ... -
Realising the management challenges for science communication outreach: a Social marketing perspective
Domegan, Christine; McCauley, Veronica; Davison, Kevin (2010)Social marketing recognises that neither government nor education alone can solve the growing range of complex and multifaceted social policy issues facing societies around the world. Social marketing is about behavioural ... -
Sexualities of initial teacher education applicants in the Republic of Ireland: Addressing the hidden dimension of diversity in teaching
Heinz, Manuela; Keane, Elaine; Davison, Kevin (Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-08)While research and policy recommendations internationally have pointed to the need to diversify teaching populations with regard to ethnicity, social class background and, to a lesser extent, dis/ability, there is a paucity ... -
Texting gender and body as a distant/ced memory: an autobiographical account of bodies, masculinities and schooling
Davison, Kevin (The Journal Of Curriculum Theorizing, 2004)Researchers, many of whom have come from a feminist perspective, have used autobiographical approaches to highlight issues of inequity and to centre the experiences of women where historically such experiences have been ... -
Using comment only marking in a mathematics classroom in the Republic of Ireland: experience and learning of a student teacher
O'Mahoney, Kathleen; Heinz, Manuela (Journal of Teacher Action Research, 2016)Formative assessment is a well recognised and researched method of assessing student learning and understanding in the classroom. One method of formative assessment is the use of comment only marking. In this paper, a ... -
Why choose teaching? An international review of empirical studies exploring student teachers career motivations and levels of commitment to teaching
Heinz, Manuela (Taylor and Francis, 2015-03-18)Why do individuals all over the world choose to become school teachers? What motivates them to become educators of young people, and how committed are they to this cause when they enter their teacher education courses? ...