Browsing by Subject "Irish education"

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    • Finding the missing link (Pre-published version) 

      Kenny, Ailbhe; Larkin, Charles; MacSíthigh, Daithí; Thijssen, Jacco (The Irish Times, 2008)
      Education: Is it time to sacrifice the sacred cow of Irish education - the Leaving Cert?

    • A foucauldian discourse analysis of intellectual disability in Irish education 

      McSherry, Eleanor (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
      Since the birth of the Irish State there has been three official terms for children with mental disabilities, ‘mental deficiency’, ‘mental handicap’ and ‘intellectual disability’. Each new term replaced the previous one; ...

    • Teacher competences: a core challenge for teacher educators 

      O'Doherty, Teresa (Department of Education and Skills, 2009)
      This paper recognises that Irish educationalists need to assert and debate the values, knowledge, skills and attitudes that our teachers should acquire, while recognising the limitations of any rubric to describe the essence ...