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Jack's life : a Taylorean auto/biographical study of the masculine identity of a young Irish male undergraduate
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2015)Masculinities is a relatively new field of study, grounded in anthropology, sociology and psychoanalysis. The most cited author in the field, Raewyn Connell, has developed a widely-used sociological theory of masculinities, ... -
"Kansas to Oz” – An exploration of post-primary teachers’ knowledge of transition from primary to post-primary in Ireland
This study focuses on the critical transition from primary to post-primary education from the perspective of post-primary in-service and pre-service teachers. The study aims to understand teachers’ knowledge and practices ... -
The landscape of European science communication
(2021)European science communication project QUEST surveyed and reviewed different aspects of European science communication, including science journalism, teaching and training in science communication, social media activity, ... -
Language ideologies in a minority context: An experimental study of teachers? responses to variation in Irish
(2022)Ideologies on linguistic variation among teachers of the Irish language are the focus of this article. Participants completed an experiment in which they responded to speech samples representing traditional dialectal ... -
Large-scale, design-based research facilitating iterative change in Irish schools - the Trinity Access Approach
(2022)Trinity Access (TA) is a post-primary initiative, in the authors’ university, that offers programmes for students, teachers and schools in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. The aims of the programme include helping ... -
Leaders or jugglers? the principal dilemma : Irish second-level principals' narratives, identifying selected factors that encourage/limit their acting ethically
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2012)School principals play a significant role in the effective running of schools. They are confronted by countless demands, expectations and challenges while trying to maintain balance in their decision-making about contradictory, ... -
Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care: Gender, Class, and Women who Care(s)?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2021)The Irish Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector has undergone considerable change in the last decade, including introducing various leadership roles for the ECEC practitioner. Conversely, it is difficult to ... -
Learner autonomy, teacher autonomy and the process of becoming a pro-autonomy teacher : theoretical perspectives and life stories of six teachers of Japanese as a second language
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2003)In this thesis I explore how teachers may develop their understanding of and a positive attitude towards learner autonomy. Part 1 of the thesis consists of two chapters. In Chapter 1 I compare definitions of learner autonomy ... -
Learning in Citizen Science
(Springer Nature, 2021)Citizen science is a promising field for educational practices and research. However, it is also highly heterogeneous, and learning happens in diverse ways, according to project tasks and participants’ activities. Therefore, ... -
Learning modern foreign languages in the Republic of Ireland : a study of the learning experiences of upper-secondary level students
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2012)This study investigates the learning experiences of upper-secondary level students in the Republic of Ireland whilst learning modern foreign languages at school. Essentially this study has sought to capture the students’ ... -
'Learning the "encynicals"': the Catholic Workers' College Dublin 1951-1965
(2011)The Catholic Workers? College founded in 1951 by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Dublin remains an interesting case of Irish adult and trades union education as the College, society and education changed between the 1950s ... -
Learning vocabulary in the authentic written form for novice English-speaking learners of Japanese with limited orthographic knowledge
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2012)It is conventionally assumed that complicated Japanese orthography is too difficult to learn for learners from non-logographic language backgrounds at the early stages of learning. However, this sort of assumption may have ... -
Leaving is not Losing: Influences on and Impacts of Career Decision Self-Efficacy in a Selection of Third Level Students in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)College withdrawals are a widespread problem and Ireland is no exception. The associated challenges for the third level education provider, the family of the withdrawing student, and above all, the student him/herself, ... -
Lest we forget: Lessons learned in Ireland following Budget 2012.
(2013)School-based Guidance and Counselling provision suffered significantly in the austerity measures announced as part of the Irish national Budget for 2012. Through an exploration of the rapid changes visited on the profession ... -
Letting language live. Establishing a basis for the use of drama in education to support and implement a communicative approach to the teaching and learning of modern foreign languages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2009)Having for many years successfully used Drama in Education (DiE) in her classroom as a means of supporting and implementing a communicative approach (CLT) to the teaching and learning of modern foreign languages (MFL), the ... -
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Literacy in the kitchen
Short video for parents to support young children learning to read and write. -
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Literacy On Television
Short video for parents to support young children learning to read and write.