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An Investigation into the Impact of Inquiry-Based Learning on Young Learners’ Environmental Awareness and Agency in the Local Environment
(Marino Institute of Education, 2020-06)This thesis describes a case study analysis of an inquiry-based learning (IBL) approach with a class of young learners in an urban, primary school setting. Firstly, it examines how IBL can deepen the understanding of young ... -
How does Irish teachers’ understandings and lived experience of IBL impact their teaching practice?
This dissertation explores Irish post-primary teachers’ lived experience of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) as they use it to teach areas of the Junior Cycle Framework (2015) (JCF). The research focused on how teachers’ lived ... -
Case Study Examining the Skills and Dispositions that are Developed in a Unit of Inquiry as Students and Teacher Adopt an Inquiry Stance to Learning in a Mainstream Primary School Classroom
(Marino Institute of Education, 2020-06)Inquiry based learning as a teaching practice makes an important contribution to primary education in Ireland as the fundamentals of inquiry; questioning skills, problem solving, critical thinking, agency and collaboration ... -
Empowering Children Through Inquiry
(Marino Institute of Education, 2020-06)Learning through inquiry can make a valuable contribution to primary education. The primary aim of this study was to identify how learning through inquiry might empower children to take action on environmental issues. A ... -
To Screen or Not to Screen? Exploring Primary School Children’s Perspectives on the use of Green Screen Technology when Looking at and Responding to Visual Arts.
(Marino Institute of Education, 2020-06)The 1999 visual arts primary school curriculum was evaluated by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment in 2005 as part of a phase one curriculum review which also included maths and English. This review reported ...
