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Unreasonable expectation: the dilemma for pedagogues in delivering policy objectives
(Routledge,Taylor & Francis group., 2010)
Internationally, early childhood care and education policy is increasingly informed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (1989). In the Republic of Ireland, the importance of this convention ...
Facilitating inquiry based learning in mathematics teacher education
(SMEC [Science and Mathematics Education Conference], 2010)
A driving question in teacher education centers on how to help prospective teachers become expert teachers. The absence of a shared professional curriculum to prepare teachers to teach mathematics combined with the difficulty ...
Shaping public policy: Is there a place for values-led debate and discourse in the public sphere?
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)
Collaborative digital learning in schools: teacher perceptions of purpose and effectiveness
(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 ...
Teaching statistics at the primary level: identifying obstacles and challenges in teacher preparation from looking at teaching
(IASE [International Association for Statistical Education], 2010)
Preparing preservice primary teachers to teach statistics is a complex endeavor. The challenge is to enrich content knowledge, advance pedagogical understandings, and develop the types of thinking and dispositions necessary ...
Religious education an ideal conduit for child spirituality
(The Irish Times, 2010)
EAL – putting it in writing
(INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2010)
Session 1: Public health nutrition physical activity prescription for public health
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)
The increased prevalence of CVD deaths in the past 60 years is a result in considerable part of the influence of environmental and lifestyle changes, including decreased daily energy expenditure through physical exertion. ...