Browsing Peer Reviewed Publications by Author "Kieran, Patricia"
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Beyond Belief? Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives on Teaching RE in Ireland.
Kieran, Patricia; Mullally, Aiveen (Springer, 2021)This article overviews the contemporary context for teaching RE in Ireland and profiles changing religious demographics in an increasingly secular context. It presents the findings of a two-year mixed-methods study undertaken ... -
Blending Catholicism with Chi, Chakras and Crystals: Research on the Lived Reality of Catholicism Among Pre-Service Postgraduate Student Teachers In Catholic Third-Level Colleges in the Republic of Ireland (ROI)
Kieran, Patricia; Mullally, Aiveen (Brill, 2022)This article presents the findings of a two-year research project investigating four hundred third-level Initial Teacher Education (ITE) students’ perceptions of the religiously unaffiliated in Ireland. The research was ... -
‘The New Nones’: Implications of Ticking the ‘No Religion’ Census Box for Educators in Ireland
Kieran, Patricia; Mullally, Aiveen (The Furrow, 2020)In recent decades every census in the Republic of Ireland has given a snapshot of the rising number of people who self-identify under the category of ‘No Religion’. In 2016, one in ten people in Ireland belonged to this ...