Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Author "Heinz, Manuela"
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Career motivations of student teachers in the Republic of Ireland: continuity and change during educational reform and 'Boom to Bust' economic times
Heinz, Manuela; Keane, Elaine; Foley, Conor (Cambridge University Press, 2017-08-31)[No abstract available] -
Collaborative learning, role play and case study: Pedagogical pathways to professionalism and ethics in school placement
Heinz, Manuela; Fleming, Mary; Logue, Pauline; McNamara, Joseph (Learning Connections UCC, 2019-12-05)Teachers are moral agents. Acting professionally in loco parentis teachers have a legal and moral duty of care to students (DES, 2017). Moreover, they can be regarded as moral role models (Bergen, 2006; Lumpkin, 2013). ... -
Creating the future of teacher education together: The role of emotionality in university-school partnership
Higgins, Andrea; Heinz, Manuela; McCauley, Veronica; Fleming, Mary (Elsevier, 2013-10-13)This paper describes an innovative project between university tutors and co-operating teachers in self-selected partner schools with a focus on improving the school placement experience of the pre-service teacher. The ... -
Developing critical thinking, justification and generalisation skills in mathematics through Socratic questioning
Duffy, Meighan; Heinz, Manuela (The Journal of Teacher Action Research, 2019)This paper reports on an action research study which explored the impact of Socratic questioning on student learning in a second-level mathematics classroom in Ireland. While students engaged in a higher order mathematical ... -
Differentiated homework: Impact on student engagement
Keane, Gearóid; Heinz, Manuela (Scholar Commons, University of South Florida, 2019)This paper describes a mixed methods practitioner research study that aimed to enhance student engagement with homework. Based on a comprehensive literature review and data from a pre-study questionnaire, a differentiated ... -
Factors impacting on the retention of students from under-represented groups in initial teacher education in Ireland
Keane, Elaine; Heinz, Manuela; Lynch, Andrea (Springer, 2022-12-01)Initial teacher education (ITE) programmes in Ireland have seen continued high demand for places, reflecting high regard for the teaching profession. However, there is a dearth of diversity amongst Ireland’s student teacher ... -
‘I will do it but religion is a very personal thing’: teacher education applicants’ attitudes towards teaching religion in Ireland
Heinz, Manuela; Davison, Kevin; Keane, Elaine (Taylor & Francis, 2018-01-15)There has been extensive research internationally describing teachers homogenous socio-demographic backgrounds and critiquing the associated equity and diversity issues, most especially with regard to ethnicity and gender, ... -
Identity matters? ‘Working class’ student teachers in Ireland, the desire to be a relatable and inclusive teacher, and sharing the classed self
Keane, Elaine; Heinz, Manuela; Lynch, Andrea (Routledge, 2020-12-03)This paper is about social class and initial teacher education, specifically the perspectives and experiences of those from lower socio-economic groups in an initial teacher education programme in Ireland. It draws on a ... -
Initial teacher education in Ireland: Structure, policy developments and implications for practice
Heinz, Manuela (Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), 2014)This paper aims to provide an overview of recent policy developments in Initial Teacher Education in Ireland, their impact on practices and challenges for ITE providers and schools. It will outline and discuss recruitment ... -
Leading change in teacher education: Balancing on the wobbly bridge of school-university partnership
Heinz, Manuela; Fleming, Mary (Eurasian Society of Educational Research, 2019-10-15)Initial teacher education (ITE) programmes have been critiqued widely for failing to connect educational theory with everyday practices in schools. More meaningful collaborations between schools and teacher education ... -
The next generation of teachers: an investigation of second-level student teachers' backgrounds in the Republic of Ireland
Heinz, Manuela (Taylor & Francis, 2013-01-30)This paper presents and discusses the demographic, educational and career backgrounds of second-level student teachers in the Republic of Ireland. Its findings confirm that student teachers from the lower social classes ... -
Reconceptualising relatedness in education in ‘Distanced’ times
Murray, Clíona; Heinz, Manuela; Munday, Ian; Keane, Elaine; Flynn, Niamh; Connolly, Cornelia; Hall, Tony; MacRuairc, Gerry (Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) and Routledge, 2020-08-12)As schools and universities worldwide tentatively move beyond an initial emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the prospect of socially-distanced learning spaces prompts us to ask how we can maintain good educational ... -
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 ... -
Shared reading practices between parents and young children with Down syndrome in Ireland
Lusby, Sinead; Heinz, Manuela (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-02-17)Shared reading, a key component of the home literacy environment, has well documented potential for the development of emergent literacy skills. This study explored shared reading interactions between parents and their ... -
Socio-demographic composition of primary initial teacher education entrants in Ireland
Heinz, Manuela; Keane, Elaine (Taylor & Francis, 2018-10-24)The homogeneity of the teaching profession is an international, as well as national, phenomenon. In an era of significant demographic change in schools and education policy development in Ireland and across Europe, the ... -
Tomorrow’s teachers—selecting the best: An exploration of the quality rationale behind academic and experiential selection criteria for initial teacher education programmes
Heinz, Manuela (Springer, 2013-03-26)Using Ireland as an example, this paper explores the rationale behind various selection criteria currently used to select suitable candidates for initial teacher education courses. It investigates and discusses patterns ... -
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 ... -
Using real data in a quantitative methods course to enhance teachers and school leaders statistical literacy
Heinz, Manuela (International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd), 2020-06-02)Engaging part-time Master of Education students in the study of quantitative research methods is challenging. The majority of them lead busy lives as teachers and/or education leaders, attend their MEd classes in the ... -
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? ... -
‘Working-class’ student teachers: Not being encouraged at school and impact on motivation to become a teacher
Keane, Elaine; Heinz, Manuela; Lynch, Andrea (The Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, 2018)Diversifying Ireland’s relatively homogeneous teaching population has been a policy concern for over a decade in the context of the rapid transformation of Irish society and schooling. This paper draws on the Access to ...