FACULTY OF EDUCATION: Recent submissions
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‘Getting into the nucleus of the school’: experiences of collaboration between special educational needs co-ordinators, senior leadership teams, and educational psychologists in Irish post-primary schools.
(2023-09-27)Objective: The research explored barriers and facilitators to collaboration between National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) psychologists, Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs) and Senior Leadership ... -
Take a chance, give a chance and give a real chance: experiences and perspectives of volunteer women coaches in ladies Gaelic football
(2023-09-27)The voice of volunteer women coaches is underrepresented in coaching literature. This research explores the experiences of volunteer women coaches at the non-elite club level within the sport of Ladies Gaelic football. To ... -
Musical futures as critical pedagogy: participatory case study research with generalist primary school teachers in the Republic of Ireland
(2023-09-27)Within the primary generalist context, issues inter alia of confidence, knowledge, beliefs and values, efficacy, and considerable variance in the musical backgrounds and experiences of teachers compound to problematise ... -
Father engagement with disability services: the perceptions and experiences of fathers and psychologists
(2023-09-26)Background and Aims: This study sought to explore father engagement with disability services in Ireland by capturing the perceptions and experiences of fathers of children with an intellectual disability or developmental ... -
An investigation into collaborative practice between the class teacher, special education teacher (SET) and speech and language therapist to identify and meet the needs of students with speech, language and communication difficulties (SLCD) in Irish primary schools
(2023-09-26)The number of students presenting with Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties (SLCD) represents a significant cohort of the student population nationally and internationally, according to the literature. These ... -
Refugee and asylum-seeker youths’ experiences of education in Ireland an interpretative phenomenological analysis
(2023-09-26)Background: School can play an important protective role in the lives of refugee youth. While a substantial body of research relates risk factors to subsequent psychosocial and educational outcomes for refugee youth, less ... -
Using CLIL to support teacher language awareness in the Irish language in English-medium primary schools: an analysis of the impact on second language teaching and learning competency
(2023-09-26)This study sought to examine CLIL as a mechanism to enhance teacher language awareness (TLA) in English-medium schools in the Republic of Ireland. The potential of this enhancement of TLA is to support teachers’ own language ... -
"Sowing the seed" : a bio-ecological exploratory case study of the forest school approach to learning and teaching in the Irish primary school curriculum
(2023-09-26)While emergent research notes an increasing awareness regarding the importance of time spent in nature for personal well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic, recent literature describes children's disconnection from the ... -
Investigating language corpora as a grammar development resource
(2023-09-25)The digital era has brought new concepts and transformations into language development and has given rise to technology-based approaches to learner autonomy. It has shifted the focus from deductive to inductive learning, ... -
An exploration of the impact of formal and non-formal teaching and learning approaches on piano students’ musical knowledge, skills, engagement and motivation: a longitudinal action research study
(2023-09-25)Traditional approaches to piano pedagogy tend to be dominated by Western Classical Music practices where musical literacy and technical skills take precedence over aural skills. This can lead to fragmented musical understanding ... -
A case study of beginning teachers’ lived experiences of engagement with parents, particularly parents of children with special educational needs
(2023-09-19)The research study aimed to make a contribution to the knowledge-gap in the area of parent-teacher engagement. Specifically, it sought to explore the nature of eight beginning teachers’ lived experiences of engagement with ... -
The journey to G.R.A.C.E: Creating an international community of practice
(Religions, 2023-01)Abstract: Global Researchers Advancing Catholic Education (G.R.A.C.E) is a unique Community of Practice (CoP). The CoP methodology was applied within G.R.A.C.E for its capacity to connect multidisciplinary and international ... -
Re-Presenting Christian Tradition as a Source of Inspiration and Integration for Educators in Catholic Schools—A Proposal
(Religions, 2021-01)Abstract: A significant challenge facing leaders of Catholic schools in Ireland today is to ensure an appreciation for, and understanding of, the Catholic identity of the school among members of staff. A first aim of ... -
Health and wellbeing in an outdoor and adventure sports context
(MDPI, 2020-04-14)While the world responds to the latest health issue, it is perhaps timely that we think broadly about human and planetary health and wellbeing. Across the globe, there is a call for a different future, one that prioritises ... -
Engaging practitioners as co-researchers in national policy evaluations as resistance to patriarchal constructions of expertise: the case of the end of year three evaluation of the access and inclusion model
(Frontiers Media, 2022-12-23)Seventeen Practitioner Researchers (PRs) were engaged as co-researchers in an evaluation commissioned by Ireland’s Department of Childhood, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth (DCEDIY), as an innovative aspect in ... -
‘The golf course doesn’t know what gender you are’: feminist perspectives in the online blog of a female professional golfer
(Routledge, 2022-09)Many female athletes are using online platforms to control their own portrayals, and such representations have been examined mostly through neoliberal and postfeminist perspectives, which position female athletes as ... -
Playful maths! The influence of play-based learning on academic performance of Palestinian primary school children
(Springer, 2022-02-11)This study explores the relationship between play-based learning and achievement in mathematics in Palestinian elementary school children. Forty teachers from eight schools received training in play-based pedagogies and ... -
The clustering of physical activity and screen time behaviours in early childhood and impact on future health-related behaviours: a longitudinal analysis of children aged 3 to 8 years
(BMC, 2022-03-21)Meeting physical activity and screen time guidelines has been associated with improved health in children. Research has shown that lifestyle behaviours happen in combination and can be tracked into later life. Thus, a ... -
An investigation into the profile of entrants to concurrent (post-primary) initial teacher education in Ireland, 2009–2020
(Routledge, 2021-03-26)In recent times, Ireland’s post-primary schools have experienced considerable social, cultural, economic and technological change. As a result newly qualified teachers are entering an increasingly diverse and rapidly ... -
The effects of peer feedback, within an ‘assessment as learning’ approach, on the learning and development of student-teachers
(University of Cumbria, 2020-09-21)This paper describes a study that examined the effects of peer feedback on the learning and development of a group of eighty-one second-year undergraduate post-primary student-teachers on a four-year concurrent initial ...