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Learning Anew – Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century, 2003 - 2007
(NUI Maynooth, 2007)
Many of the more interesting stories that come to us from ancient times getclouded or distorted by the course of history. For instance it’s said that during the course of his trial, allegedly for corrupting the youth of ...
Dissolving boundaries through technology in education: making a difference with ICT
(Ablex Publishing Corporation, 2008)
A total of 320 schools have participated in the Dissolving Boundaries programme since its launch in 1999. The number of schools involved increased from 146 in 2006-7 to 170 in 2007-8. All schools in Northern Ireland continue ...
The effect of walking on fitness, fatness and resting blood pressure: a meta-analysis of randomised, controlled trials (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2007)
Objective. The purpose of this review was to perform a meta-analysis on walking intervention studies in order to quantify the magnitude and direction of walking-induced changes that may alter selected cardiovascular risk ...
“Working with learners”: shaping and contextualizing a teacher education methodology course in the U.A.E. (Pre-published version)
(TESOL Arabia, 2007)
Language teacher education programs have traditionally focused on transmission, product-orientated approaches that are applicable to any teaching context. However, there is a growing shift towards a constructivist, ...
The concept of shared reading
(Gulf News, 2005)
Coordinating student learning and teacher activity – The case of Savannah: Motivating an understanding of representativeness through examination of distributions of data
(St. Patrick's College, Dublin, 2007)
This research study investigated the measures chosen by five 4th to 8th grade students when selecting statistical measures to describe distributions of data. Over the course of eight weeks of instruction, individual teaching ...
Barriers to inclusion: a case study of a pupil with severe learning difficulties in Ireland (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2005)
The aim of this study was to examine the inclusion of a pupil with a severe general learning difficulty in a four-teacher mainstream primary school, located in rural Ireland. The research employed a qualitative multiple ...
Reading more deeply into EAL!
(INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2009)
Diversity in early years education North and South: Implications for teacher education
(The Centre for Cross Border Studies, 2004)
Dissolving boundaries: building communities of practice
(Ablex Publishing Corporation, 2006)
Dr. Roger Austin and Dr. Aidan Mulkeen in 1999 identified the opportunity that the growth of Information and Communications
Technologies (ICT) presented to schools and founded the Dissolving Boundaries programme from an ...