Browsing by Subject "Primary school"
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Ambitions for transitions: a guide to support every child’s progression from early years services to primary school
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Bizzy break! The effect of a classroom-based activity break on in-school physical activity levels of primary school children (Pre-published version)
(Human Kinetics, 2013)The school has been identified as a key setting to promote physical activity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a classroom-based activity break on in-school step counts of primary school children. ... -
'Education about religions and beliefs (ERB) and ethics in the primary school: Consultation paper’ A response
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The evolution of wellbeing in educational policy in Ireland: towards an interdisciplinary approach
(International Journal of Wellbeing, 2022-01-31)This paper examines how wellbeing has evolved in educational policy over the last decade in Ireland. The influence of the developments in national policy on wellbeing are also considered. While the concept of wellbeing is ... -
How can we avert the citation-based (h index) crisis? (Pre-published version)
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An intervention to improve the physical activity levels of children: Design and rationale of the ‘Active Classrooms’ cluster randomised controlled trial (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)Background: Recent evidence demonstrates that children are not engaging in the recommended 60mins of moderate to vigorous PA per day. PA interventions have been acknowledged by the WHO (2010) as a key strategy to increase ... -
A melange or a mosaic of theories? How theoretical perspectives on children’s learning and development can inform a responsive pedagogy in a redeveloped primary school curriculum
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)We are living in a rapidly evolving society, where cultural, ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity is the norm. Parallel to this changing societal zeitgeist is the development of an increasing awareness and understanding ... -
A personal response to the consultation paper on: education about religions and beliefs (ERB) and ethics in the primary school
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Preliminary findings of Active Classrooms: An intervention to increase physical activity levels of primary school children during class time (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)This study evaluates the effects of a behaviour change intervention, which encourages the integration of PA into the teaching of academic lessons, on PA levels of students. The main outcome is mean minutes of moderate-to-vigorous ... -
Primary teachers with expertise in PE: a win-win for all?
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Prospective primary teachers understandings of graphicacy (Pre-published version)
(Springer Verlag [Germany], 2016)This paper reports on the statistical knowledge of 456 entry-level, prospective teachers relating to data representation. We report on the responses of participants to three items sourced from the OECD Programme for ... -
Religion and the primary schools
(The Furrow, 2014)In the current debates about religion and schooling in the Republic of Ireland, the primary sector has become the lightning rod of discontent with the current system, as we saw during the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism ... -
Spoon-feeding to tongue-biting: An evolving instructional framework for primary school mathematics
(St. Patrick's College, Dublin, 2013)In this paper, I examine the evolution of an instructional framework for primary mathematics during a sustained, on-site professional development project with one case study school. The project attempts to bridge the gap ... -
Story sacks: an exciting way of bringing books to life!
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Teachers’ and students’ perspectives of participating in the ‘Active Classrooms’ movement integration programme (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2017)This paper evaluates perceptions of 5 teachers and 129 students of participating in an 8-week primary school movement integration intervention. Following training and provision of resources, teachers were asked to teach 2 ... -
Time and structure of a revised primary school curriculum
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Time, space and presences: Bangladeshi girls' friendships in an English primary school
(Social Care Ireland, 2000)The study reported here examined what it is like to be and have friends and how developing conceptions of friendships become embedded in children's peer cultures. It took place in two mixed Year 5 and Year 6 classes in a ... -
Using electronic books to engage young readers
(I.N.T.O. [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2013-02)Electronic books offer a fun, interactive, multimedia rich approach to sharing stories with children. Although teaching reading has traditionally focused on using conventional printed books, there is a growing shift ...