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Why I am still a Catholic
(The Irish Catholic, 2009-10)
The Role of Sustained, On-Site Continuing Professional Development in the Promotion of a Whole-School Approach to Comprehension Strategy Instruction.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)
This study examines the extent to which a sustained, coherent, on-site
professional development approach, incorporating a school-based facilitator, can
support the staff of a large urban primary school in the implementation ...
Teacher-Writer Memoirs as Lens for Writing Emotionally in a Primary Teacher Education Programme
(Teaching Education (Routledge), 2008)
This paper examines student teachers experiences of writing emotionally through the lens of teacher-writer memoirs. The participants were ninety-nine postgraduate student teachers in a sociology of teaching module in an ...
Playtime: the needs of very young learners in physical education and sport
(Pearson Education, 2011)
Too cool for school? Musicians as partners in education (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2010)
Scholarly electronic journals: economic and technical issues
(Arizona State University, College of Education, 2000)
In this paper we discuss scholarly communication and the emergence of electronic journals. Scholarly electronic journals are expanding their influence. Currently, about 70 peer-reviewed scholarly journals in education are ...
"Just say something and we can all argue then": community and identity in the workplace talk of English language teachers
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2009)
This thesis addresses the professional talk of English language teachers. In doing so, it differs from the vast majority of the previous
research by focussing on naturally occurring professional interaction
outside the ...
Displays for the primary school classroom
(I.N.T.O. [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2013)
While traditionally, Irish classrooms have displayed examples of published posters and teacher-generated charts on the walls, with changing constructivist methodologies which value the involvement of pupils, further learning ...
An embedded case study of how knowledge, competences and skills are acquired through coaching, mentoring and training for leadership at an Adult Education Centre in Ireland
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)
This study explores a proposed construct of leadership in the adult education sector. The construct is a
fusion of sustainable, transformational and distributed leadership that is mediated by the Competing
Values Framework ...
An ethnography exploring how hegemony and power mediate agency and structure among a group of 6th year Irish girls in a middle-class Post-Primary school
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)
This is an ethnographic study of a culture-sharing group of 6th year girls. Facing the high stakes Leaving Certificate examinations while on the cusp of adulthood, this study contributes to the agency-structure debate from ...