Browsing by Author "Quirke-Bolt, Nigel"
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Can technology offer a solution to providing large numbers of students with effective assessment feedback? An invitation to create and join a network of critical friends to provide feedback on feedback
Quirke-Bolt, Nigel (2018)The aim of this roundtable discussion is to share good practice in using technology to provide holistic feedback to student teachers between higher education institutions. It is envisaged that the resulting discussions ... -
Collaborative digital learning in schools: teacher perceptions of purpose and effectiveness
Quirke-Bolt, Nigel; Austin, Roger; Smyth, Jane; Rickard, Angela; Metcalfe, Nigel (Routledge, 2010)Research on the place of digital collaborative learning in schools has established its extensive use for the provision of online courses (Stevens, 2007), for learning within schools (Orech, 2009) and as a means of promoting ... -
Dissolving boundaries through technology in education: making a difference with ICT
Quirke-Bolt, Nigel; Rickard, Angela; Metcalfe, Nigel; Austin, Roger; Smyth, Jane; Mallon, Marie (Ablex Publishing Corporation, 2008)A total of 320 schools have participated in the Dissolving Boundaries programme since its launch in 1999. The number of schools involved increased from 146 in 2006-7 to 170 in 2007-8. All schools in Northern Ireland continue ... -
Dissolving boundaries: building communities of practice
Austin, Roger; Mallon, Marie; Rickard, Angela; Metcalfe, Nigel; Quirke-Bolt, Nigel (Ablex Publishing Corporation, 2006)Dr. Roger Austin and Dr. Aidan Mulkeen in 1999 identified the opportunity that the growth of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) presented to schools and founded the Dissolving Boundaries programme from an ... -
The effects of peer feedback, within an ‘assessment as learning’ approach, on the learning and development of student-teachers
Quirke-Bolt, Nigel (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 ... -
An investigation into the profile of entrants to concurrent (post-primary) initial teacher education in Ireland, 2009–2020
Quirke-Bolt, Nigel; Purcell, Rebecca (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 ... -
Joining the dots: Connecting change, post-primary development education, initial teacher education and an inter-disciplinary cross-curricular context
Quirke-Bolt, Nigel; Jeffers, Gerry (Centre for Global Education, 2018)This Perspectives article develops a rationale for the integration of a development education (DE) approach into initial teacher education (ITE) within a cross-curricular framework. The perspective is grounded in the ... -
Learning Anew – Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century, 2003 - 2007
Quirke-Bolt, Nigel; Hogan, Pádraig; Brosnan, Anne; de Róiste, Bernadette; MacAlister, Alec; Malone, Anthony; Smith, Greg; Coolahan, John (NUI Maynooth, 2007)Many of the more interesting stories that come to us from ancient times getclouded or distorted by the course of history. For instance it’s said that during the course of his trial, allegedly for corrupting the youth of ... -
Teachers' professional identities and development education
Jeffers, Gerry; Quirke-Bolt, Nigel (Centre for Global Education, 2019)This article explores the relationship between development education (DE) and the notion of teachers’ identity. The Teaching Council’s Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers (2016a) is seen as a significant step forward ...