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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Long-term impact of early maternal loss on females.
(2002)Loss is a universal experience. While it remains a uniquely personal experience, bereavement is often central to psychological distress in the lives of many people. The present article presents a review of the theory ... -
An maith leat an Ghaeilge? An analysis of variation in primary pupil attitudes to Irish in the Growing Up in Ireland study
(2018)This paper presents an analysis of primary schoolchildren's attitudes to the Irish language, Gaeilge, in the context of national policy in the Republic of Ireland. In particular, the study examines the factors (social, ... -
Making the transition to post-secondary education: opportunities and challenges experienced by students with ASD in the Republic of Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)International and national policy initiatives have begun to focus on enabling people from traditionally marginalised groups to fully participate within society. In the Republic of Ireland there has been a concerted struggle ... -
Making the transition to post-secondary education: Opportunities and challenges experienced by students with ASD in the Republic of Ireland
(2017)Internationally there are increasing numbers of young people on the ASD spectrum attending higher education. Early transition planning is essential and students with ASD often require support to articulate their post-school ... -
Management of bullying in Northern Ireland schools: a pre-legislative survey
(National Foundation for Educational Research, 2008)BACKGROUND Unlike the rest of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland has only recently (2003) implemented legislation regarding the requirement for anti-bullying policies in the Provinces school system. PURPOSE To ascertain ... -
Mapping an ethnography of change in teachers of Italian (L2) learning process drama
(2016)This paper discusses a longitudinal, participatory case study focused on a group of experienced teachers of Italian (L2), learning to integrate process drama pedagogy in their practice. Process drama is an embodied approach ... -
Marginalised students in Primary and Post-Primary DEIS Schools and other settings: System Gaps in Policy and Practice and the Priority Issues for consideration, with reference to the impact of Covid 19
(EDC, 2020)Founded in 2000 by the late Dr. Ann Louise Gilligan, the DCU Educational Disadvantage Centre, located in its Institute of Education, engages in interdisciplinary research, policy and practice regarding poverty and social ... -
Mathematics, Technology Interventions and Pedagogy- Seeing the Wood From the Trees
(SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2013)This research explores recent technological interventions in mathematics education and examines to what extent these make use of the educational opportunities offered by the technology and appropriate pedagogical approaches ... -
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 ...