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Making the invisible visible: disciplinary literacy in secondary school classrooms
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014-01-02)In Ireland, policy on literacy now aims to expand the role that post-primary teachers of all subjects have in developing students' literacy skills. This paper draws on data from a wider research study carried out in secondary ... -
Masculinities and femininities and secondary schooling: the case for a gender analysis in the postmodern condition
(Sage, 2006)No abstract available -
Micro and macro pedagogy for science education
(Irish Science Teachers' Association, 2015-11)[No abstract available] -
Mobilising teacher education in Ireland: The MiTE ecosystem for learning by design
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2020-06-11)This chapter outlines an innovative and emergent multilevel initiative in the School of Education, National University of Ireland, Galway, focused on infrastructuring educational transformation in teacher education through ... -
The next generation of teachers: an investigation of second-level student teachers' backgrounds in the Republic of Ireland
(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 ... -
Performance anxiety in academia: Tensions within research assessment exercises in an age of austerity
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Report on public consultation on exemptions from the study of Irish in schools
(Department of Education and Skills, 2019-05)Public consultation on the future direction of policy on exemptions from the study of Irish in schools was undertaken in the context of recent changes in the arrangements for granting additional supports to children with ... -
Retention initiatives for ICT based courses
(IEEE, 2005-10-19)Unlike our European neighbours, Ireland failed to develop its educational system in the immediate postwar years and it was only in 1967 that second-level education was provided free to all citizens. Since 1970, the educational ... -
A review of science outreach strategies north and south: with some recommendations for improvement
(Centre for Cross Border Studies, 2008-10)No abstract available -
Science outreach and science education at primary level in Ireland: a mixed methods study
(Libreria Universitaria, 2013)Worldwide, science has become economically very important [1]. The European Union and different EU countries, such as Ireland, stress that science and technology graduates are fundamental for economic growth [2,3]. ... -
Science outreach and science education in the primary level: Conceptual and pedagogical challenges faced
(Infonomics Society, 2012)To achieve economic growth, countries such as Ireland need to continue investing in scientific enterprise, which necessitates having more students choose and follow scientific careers. Current literature and policies point ... -
Science outreach and science education: The analysis of dilemmas faced to promote the creation of the third space
(hrčak, 2013)To achieve economical growth, countries such as Ireland need to continue to invest in scientific enterprise, which necessitates having more students choose and follow scientific careers. Current literature and policies ... -
Sexualities of initial teacher education applicants in the Republic of Ireland: Addressing the hidden dimension of diversity in teaching
(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 ... -
Sexualities, genders, bodies and sport: changing practices of inequity
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Shared reading practices between parents and young children with Down syndrome in Ireland
(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
(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 ... -
An straitéis litearthachta in iar-bhunscoileanna lán-Ghaeilge: Cad is ciall le litearthacht san earnáil seo agus cad iad na dúshláin?
(An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta, 2016-05-15)ACHOIMRE Aithnítear in An Straitéis Náisiúnta chun an Litearthacht agus an Uimhearthacht a Fheabhsú i measc Leanaí agus Daoine Óga 2011-20 (An Roinn Oideachais agus Scileanna, 2011:12) go bhfuil dúshláin ar leith “do ... -
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 ...