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An Investigation into the Impact of Inquiry-Based Learning on Young Learners’ Environmental Awareness and Agency in the Local Environment
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
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
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.
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 ...
