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The importance of including the child’s voice in the transition process: signposts from a national evaluation of concepts of school readiness in Ireland (Pre-published version)
(Children's Research Network, 2016)
In a recent national evaluation of concepts of school readiness in Ireland commissioned by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) through the Irish Research Council (IRC), one of the participants, observed ...
Pre-service Primary Teachers' understanding of mathematical problem posing and problem solving: exploring the impact of a study intervention
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
The results of national assessments – National Assessment in Mathematics and
English Reading (Shiel, Kavanagh and Millar, 2014) and international assessments-
Programme for International Student Assessment (2011) and ...
“Passing as Normal”: Living and Coping With the Stigma of Deafness (Pre-published version)
(Sage, 2016)
This autoethnography presents a narrative account of the author’s experience of living and coping with the stigma of
deafness. First, the autoethnographic stories explore the author’s experience of face-to-face encounters ...
Being teachers, being women, being human: critically re-storying teacher praxis in selected DEIS schools in Ireland, 2013-2015
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
A growing body of recent literature on teaching has developed a focus on teachers’ perspectives and on life in schools, (Clandinin, 1986; Clandinin and Connelly, 1995; Freeman and Schmidt, 2000; Jalongo and Isenberg with ...
Male primary teachers' understandings of masculinities and their impact on their lives
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
Ireland has a long history of heroic male teacher ranging from the 1916 revolutionist, Pádraig Pearse, to literary giants such as The Master, Bryan MacMahon and Teacher Man, Frank McCourt. The charismatic male teacher trend ...
Moving in school: physical activity promotion in primary school setting
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
Introduction: Childhood physical activity is associated with numerous health benefits. However, many children worldwide are not sufficiently active to meet the 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) ...
Integrating, fostering and encouraging the development of literacy skills in the Irish Primary science classroom
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
The National strategy to improve literacy and numeracy among children and young people 2011-2020 in Ireland states that we need to prioritise literacy and numeracy through positive interventions and integrating these skills ...
Childhood interrupted: a story of loss, separation, and reconciliation (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2016)
This essay presents a story of personal loss and childhood trauma experienced by the author in 1968. Written in autoethnographic form, the author narrates a particular time in his life when he lost his hearing and subsequently ...
North-South educational partnership, a critical analysis: an Ireland, Uganda, Lesotho and Zambia case study
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
The term ‘partnership’ has emerged to dominate development aid discourse. It is a term which suggests movement towards effective development relations based on powerfully appealing yet contested ideas of symmetry and equity. ...
A mixed methods investigation of effective online comprehension strategy instruction within the Irish Primary School context
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
This study was based on an embedded mixed methods design. In this study, qualitative data was embedded within a quasi-field experimental design. The researcher adopted quantitative methods to test the hypothesis that a ...