Browsing by Subject "Pedagogy"
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An exploration into the play pedagogical practices of an infant teacher: A case study.
(2018-06)This case study, An Exploration of an Infant Teacher's Practices in Play Pedagogy, is a small scale research study exploring an infant teacher's practices during child led play session. Research tends to state what teachers ... -
Approaching critical pedagogies in education.
(Routledge, 2020)This opening chapter sets the scene for subsequent contributions. It begins with an examination of typical perceptions of ‘Africa’ in Northern classrooms and contexts. This is followed by an interrogation of ‘development ... -
The Books are Harder: Enhancing the Teaching of Reading Comprehension in The Senior Primary Classes
(STER, 2024-04)This research describes the experiences of a final year BEd student undertaking school placement with a cohort of sixth class students in an urban non-disadvantaged Irish primary school with a class size of twenty eight ... -
Card-Based Methods in Interactive Narrative Prototyping
(Springer, 2018)Paper prototyping plays an important role in the creation of inter-active digital narratives (IDN). A structured prototyping approach can help improve the process of making IDNs. In particular, pre-made, specialized card ... -
Creating communicative opportunities for autistic children
(2021)Our approach to working with children with autism in this article is not about the engagement philosophies but rather is focussed at a social communicative level: not just hearing and seeing but listening and understanding, ... -
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Multi-Belief Learning: Exploring Students’ Experiences of and Perspectives on the Family Project in the GMGY Curriculum.
(Marino Institute of Education, 2019-06)Irish classrooms are increasingly diverse in terms of cultures, languages, ethnicities and religions. Educators can engage with meaningful and relevant cultural elements from their students’ lives, and this can increase ... -
Exploring children's oral language use during sociodramatic play in a junior infant classroom.
(2019-06)This dissertation seeks to examine children's language use during sociodramatic play in a junior infant classroom. The research is a case study which aimed to examine the purposes of children's oral language use during ... -
The Factors that Influence Primary Teachers’ Pedagogy in Visual Arts Education in Ireland
(2021-06-01)This small-scale study explores the factors that influence teachers' Visual Arts pedagogy in the Irish primary school setting. A mixed methods sequential explanatory design was adopted, and the data was gathered through ... -
Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in the Republic of Ireland - A National Response
(Inclusive National Higher Education Forum, 2019)Given the context that people with intellectual disabilities face significant barriers and limited postsecondary opportunities, a number of initiatives in Ireland and internationally have been established with the aim of ... -
An investigation into the role of a Childrens’ Rights Education program in a diverse, urban, DEIS school, focusing on an Intercultural perspective. Is it a good fit? An action-research and self-reflective study.
This study investigates the ‘fit’ of a Childrens’ Rights Education program, in a diverse, urban, designated disadvantaged (DEIS) school. The program in this study is ‘Making Rights Real’ which was distributed to all ... -
Left to their Own Devices: Exploring Primary Teacher Experiences of Teaching Online During the COVID19 School Closures
There is an international consensus that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has the potential to enhance teaching and learning in schools, and when supported by a constructivist pedagogy, can engage students ... -
Philosophy with Children How does the practice of philosophy nurture a young child's natural ability to think philosophically and encourage him/her to participate in a democratic community of enquiry?
(2017-06)Philosophy enables us to be critical, independent thinkers particularly in a fast-paced digital world. Philosophy with Children is a pedagogy whereby the voice of the child is upheld, their agency is enabled and their ... -
Undergraduate student nurses' views of online learning
(2022)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and resultant public health restrictions saw the mass movement of higher education to online, remote delivery. There was wide variation in how this was implemented, and for many undergraduate ... -
Virtual Worlds: A New Environment for Constructionist Learning
(2019)Virtual worlds have the potential to provide a new environment in which to engage learners in constructionist activities. However, they were not designed for education and have features and affordances which are not ... -
We respect them, and they respect us: The Value of Interpersonal Relationships in Enhancing Student Engagement
(2021)Attempts to understand the patterns behind student disengagement and early school leaving have traditionally focussed on early school leavers’ individual characteristics. More recently, however, studies have begun to focus ...
