Browsing 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 ... -
Creating the future of teacher education together: the role of emotionality in university-school partnership
Higgins, Andrea; Heinz, Manuela; McCauley, Veronica; Fleming, Mary (Elsevier BV, 2013-10-01) -
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 ... -
Developing culturally responsive pedagogies in Irish secondary schools: Perspectives from student and beginning teachers and migrant parents of minority ethnic backgrounds
Adebayo, Seun Bunmi (NUI Galway, 2023-09-13)This qualitative research study explores the experiences of student and beginning teachers and migrant parents from minority ethnic backgrounds in relation to teaching and learning in culturally diverse classrooms and ... -
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 ... -
Maths was fine until they brought the alphabet into it: An examination of Irish 14-year-olds' knowledge of initial algebra
Healy O'Brien, Aoife (NUI Galway, 2021-02-26)The aim of this research is to establish what second-year students (age approximately 14 years) in Ireland know about initial algebra. To measure this knowledge, a standardised criterion referenced screener has been ... -
Modern language teacher professional development - A collaborative action research study to promote enquiry-based teaching and learning in the Irish post-primary classroom
Carslake, Annelie (2017-06-13)This action research study explored support systems for teachers enquiring into their modern language classrooms in Irish post-primary schools. Its findings show that each classroom context was a starting point for an ... -
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 ... -
Science classroom discourse and learning in secondary biology classrooms implementing a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach
Tagnin, Laura (NUI Galway, 2019-05-28)This multiple case study research analyses upper secondary teachers’ and students’ experiences of learning biology through the medium of a foreign language, which in this study is English, in the European context (German ... -
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 ...