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The meaning (s) of practice: Puzzling through performative language practice with refugee learners.
(2020)This article features an investigation into the semantics of the term ‘practice’ coexisting in a multidisciplinary research context. The background of the discussion is a government-funded study with refugees and asylum ... -
Measures and Metrics: exploring some of the philosophical roots of accountability regimes in higher education with a specific focus on the Irish context
(2012)This paper reports on project aimed at examining the impact of accountability regimes on academic identity/identities in Ireland. Framed by a view of Foucaultian power relations and the Zizekian idea that academic life may ... -
Measuring Social and Psychological Outcomes from Activation Labour Market Programmes in Higher Education: A Pilot Study
(2018)Following the 2008 recession, Ireland experienced unemployment rates as high as 15% (McGuinness, O’Connell and Kelly, 2014). Policy responses have been through the introduction of upskilling and reskilling through activation ... -
Mediating the discourses of marketization and Bildung with Slavoj Zizek's dialectics
(2008)A number of different discourses are evident in contemporary Irish educational policy, debate and theory: the grammar of marketisation, the poetry of Bildung and culture, the prose of Christian formation together with the ... -
A mixed methods approach to understanding cyberbullying: A role for both quantitative and qualitative research.
(2013)The study investigated the incidence and nature of cyber-bullying within six post-primary schools in Northern Ireland. A mixed methods sequential explanatory design was employed. The first, quantitative phase involved ... -
More Than Food: Surplus Food Distribution during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Morpheme order studies : a case study of five language minority children acquiring English as an L2 in Irish primary schools
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2010)This study looks at how five children with English as a Second Language acquire five English morphemes. The morphemes that are the focus of this study are the plural [-s] morpheme, the past tense [-ed] morpheme, the third ... -
Moving to higher education: Opportunities and barriers experienced by people with disabilities.
(Palgrave, 2017)In this chapter, we will examine how national initiatives have developed over recent decades and how they impacted on the participation of people with disabilities within HE. We contend that Initial access initiatives ... -
National Forum of Inclusive Higher Education Providers – together is better
(National Centre for Guidance in Education, 2019)The Inclusive National Higher Education Forum (INHEF), is a national interest group comprised of higher education providers and other professionals interested in supporting access routes and inclusive post secondary ... -
A National Study of Leadership in the Irish Primary Sector: STEM Education and Wellbeing during Crisis
Principals are leaders in school communities and their role is becoming increasingly more autonomous. Specifically, the role of the principal is evolving given the continuous implementation of new reforms and policies. ... -
Networked in or networked out? Learners' experiences of completing a PhD on a part-time basis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)Doctoral education policy and practice in Europe tends to recognise candidature in terms of the full-time PhD researcher. Part-time doctoral candidates have been described as invisible in policy (Neumann and Rodwell, 2009) ... -
Never the right time: maternity planning alongside a science career in academia
(2020)Pregnancy and maternity planning pose a challenge and stress in the academic career of a researcher, especially at the PhD and postdoctoral level, where the conditions of employment and role status are not clear. This paper ...