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Further studies in self-directed learning in physics at the University of Limerick, Ireland
(International Society for Self-Directed Learning (ISSDL), 2004)
This article reports on two SDL studies of undergraduate physics students and postgraduate science students at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Initial studies (McCauley and McClelland, 2001) indicated that the majority ...
The Lucent Science Teacher Initiative (LSTI): A mentoring project for trainee teachers of second level science
(2004)
This paper describes an innovative project in the University of Limerick for
trainee science teachers in Irish second-level schools. This three-year project
has received funding from Lucent Technologies Foundation K-16 ...
Innovative initiatives: targeting the declining science enrollments in Ireland
(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 ...
'Frictional' relationships tension in the camp: focusing on the relational in under-represented students' experiences in higher education
(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 ...
Texting gender and body as a distant/ced memory: an autobiographical account of bodies, masculinities and schooling
(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 ...
Contradictions and tensions of the practice of masculinities in school: interrogating embodiment and 'good buddy talk'
(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 ...