• Limerick City's coat of arms: a visual review 

  Stevenson, Kevin (Mary Immaculate College, 2024-09-20)

  The presentation hopes to provide an approach to understanding the Limerick City Coat of Arms and its evolution. It does not provide an exhaustive list of the Coat of Arms, hoping that the presentation will provoke interest ...

• Phenomenological bridge building: between empathy and archetypes in fiction and reality (Pre-published version) 

  Stevenson, Kevin (ILCAM, 2016)

  This paper aims to uncover some of the important contributions the phenomenological method can offer to philosophical issues in literary studies. It leads us to the idea that the archetypes found in fiction are intuited ...

• The benefits of mindfulness as a weekly activity: experiences from a male homeless service 

  Stevenson, Kevin (St. Kliment Ohridski Press, 2022-06)

  The social services in Ireland are organized by different organizations which have different views on social activities within residential and homeless services for ser-vice-users. Mindfulness has become a ‘buzzword’ when ...

• Una identidad pragmática, estética y fenomenológica (Pre-published) 

  Stevenson, Kevin (Fundación Mindán Manero, 2017-06)

  The conflict between aesthetic experience and the modern vision of the world frames aesthetic experience as a defender of the plurality derived from the perspectives of individuals. This signifies that aesthetic experience ...

• Highlighting the DSM-V's omission of client context 

  Stevenson, Kevin (University of Niš, 2023-09)

  The DSM-V is a product of a medical culture that holds individual symptoms as important within the search for biological indicators and psychopathological genetic etiologies (Van Praag, 1990, p. 21). Such an approach ...

• Understanding the self as hypostasis: a phenomenological view on therapeutic presence 

  Stevenson, Kevin (Tribunal of Milan, 2021)

  Natural scientific views on the human being have the tendency to reduce selfhood to a static object. This tendency arguably derives from the need to objectify the present in which the human being is found. Phenomenology ...

• The hypothetical imperative as an indicator of irrational will: the case of the 2018 Toronto van attack 

  Stevenson, Kevin (Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association (IFIASA), 2023)

  The categorical imperative inherent in Kant's ethics has had indubitable historical influence on societies worldwide whether in the form of laws, democracy or public deliberation. The Toronto Van Attack of 2018 and its ...

• The embodied fluency model: uncanniness between the mere-exposure effect and angst 

  Stevenson, Kevin (Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association (IFIASA), 2022)

  Human beings can be said to naturally seek familiarity in their environment for survival purposes, and this can explain why the mere-exposure effect, where being merely exposed to external factors in our environment, can ...

• The role of the environment in system creation in Luhmann and Hegel: between imagination and reason 

  Stevenson, Kevin (National University of Galway and St. Angela's College, 2023-08)

  This paper will aim to accomplish two things to show Luhmann’s and Hegel’s support of language and communication as dependent on culture, but also their differences with respect to how culture is formed in conjunction with ...

• Demoicracy as a viable outcome of a party-less European Union 

  Stevenson, Kevin (International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS), 2017-10)

  The European Union today is a cosmopolitan entity that functions in conjunction with political parties. This reliance on parties is one example of cosmopolitanism’s need to replicate the nation-state at supranational and ...

• A qualitative analysis on the client’s experience of the propeller model approach to counselling therapy, Dublin Business School 

  Stevenson, Kevin (DBS Library, 2023-03)

  The successful development of psychotherapeutic and counselling approaches can reflect the evolution and innovation within the industry of psychological treatment. Measuring the benefits of an approach involves inquiry ...

• Improv to improve: the importance of philosophy in the university 

  Stevenson, Kevin (Sociedad Española de Fenomenología, 2016)

  The status of philosophy is contingent upon the civilizations that embrace or undermine its importance. Such status is never fully understood, nor clear, due in part to its inutility. In a goal-oriented world, philosophizing ...

• Integrating mathematics and science in secondary classrooms 

  Treacy, Páraic (The British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 2018-06)

  This theoretical paper discusses the value of integrating mathematics and science in the secondary classroom, understanding gained from previous studies in this field, and the means by which lessons of this nature can be ...

• A conceptual framework for integrating mathematics and science in the secondary classroom (Pre-published) 

  Treacy, Páraic (Springer, 2021-06-14)

  This article presents a theoretical model for integrating mathematics and science in the secondary classroom. This model, Authentic Integration of Mathematics and Science (AIMS), promotes engagement with rich tasks which ...

• The role of expectancy-value theory in upper secondary level students’ decisions to avoid the study of advanced mathematics 

  Treacy, Páraic; O'Meara, Niamh; Prendergast, Mark (Routledge, 2023-04-25)

  Widening and increasing participation in advanced mathematics studies at upper secondary level (age 16-18) is a significant challenge for most education systems. Policy makers in Ireland have attempted to address this ...

• Incentivising advanced mathematics study at upper secondary level: the case of bonus points in Ireland 

  Treacy, Páraic (Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-22)

  Secondary level mathematics education in Ireland has recently experienced a period of significant change with the introduction of new curricula and the addition of an incentive to study upper secondary mathematics at the ...

• Representations of race and racism in the textbooks used in southern black schools during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861–1876 (Pre-published version) 

  Brosnan, AnneMarie (Routledge, 2016-08-30)

  During the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861–1876, formerly enslaved men and women demanded access to education. Aided by northern white missionaries, free blacks and some southern whites, freed men and ...

• “To educate themselves”: southern black teachers in North Carolina’s schools for the freedpeople during the Civil War and reconstruction period, 1862–1875 (Pre-published version) 

  Brosnan, AnneMarie (Routledge, 2019-11-26)

  Between 1862 and 1875, most of the teachers in North Carolina’s schools for the freedpeople were black. The vast majority of these teachers were from the South, mostly North Carolina, and many were former slaves. Yet, ...

• Developing critical citizenship in an evolving Irish culture through interactive workshops 

  Golden, Brighid (The SPHE Network, 2017)

  This chapter explores the development and facilitation of a workshop exploring migration in Ireland. The workshop was piloted at the Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) Conference in 2016 and was facilitated on ...

• Intercultural education in the Irish primary classroom 

  Connolly, Ciara; Golden, Brighid (The SPHE Network, 2021)

  As a result of rapidly increasing inward migration over the last twenty years, Ireland has changed to become a nation with a wealth of diversity. As a result, schools have had to ensure pupils from a range of diverse ...

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