FACULTY OF EDUCATION: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of the Doodle Families Literacy Programme Pilot, Dublin: Childhood Development Initiative
(Childhood Development Initiative, Dublin., 2016)The Doodle Families Literacy Programme was a pilot programme that was delivered in three DEIS Band 1 primary schools in Limerick during the period of April to June 2015 for First Class children and their parents. Doodle ... -
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering Summary Report
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)The services provided by the BRFP embrace an ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner 1979) in that they see each person, not as an isolated individual but as a member of a family and of the wider community. Consequently, ... -
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)The BRFP staff includes one full-time Project Leader, and four additional fulltime staff comprising a Social Worker, Information Officer/Hospitality Centre Leader, Family Links Social Worker and Traveller Support Worker. ... -
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 ... -
Using electronic books to engage young readers
(I.N.T.O. [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2013-02)Electronic books offer a fun, interactive, multimedia rich approach to sharing stories with children. Although teaching reading has traditionally focused on using conventional printed books, there is a growing shift ... -
10 ways to encourage beginning reading in an Emirati home
(International Printing Press, 2011)Parents worldwide play a significant role in the development of their children’s reading (Trelease, 2006). Yet, the fostering of home reading practices seems to be a challenge in both the United Arab Emirates and wider ... -
An autoethnographic inquiry into the role of serendipity in becoming a teacher educator/ researcher
(Routledge [Taylor & Francis], 2013)In this inquiry, the author inquires into her shifting ‘self’ as a researcher/teacher educator in teacher professional development. The ‘self’ in question is acknowledged as being historically, culturally and locally ... -
Music at the margins research briefing: Exploring the musical lives of children living under direct provision
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This research briefing provides a summary of a participatory music research project with children of asylum seekers living in direct provision in the Mid-West of Ireland. The project explores the musical lives of children ... -
The challenges that face the primary school teacher in coping with grief and loss in a multicultural setting
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)Death is a fact of life. The primary school teacher is often at the forefront of the child’s life and therefore has to be able to help a child who has suffered a bereavement to cope with this loss. During my teaching ... -
Playing to our strengths: physical education leadership in Irish primary schools
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This thesis set out to research primary physical education (PE) leadership. It is an exploratory study investigating generalist primary school teachers’ experiences of PE leadership. Although PE leadership has been identified ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
A tale of two schools: educating Catholic female deaf children in Ireland, 1846–1946 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2015)This paper discusses the contributions of the Dominican Sisters and Sisters of Mercy in running schools for female deaf children in Ireland during the period 1846 to 1946. The schools were established as part of an attempt ... -
'Behind the teacher’s back': an ethnographic study of deaf people’s schooling experiences in the Republic of Ireland (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2014)Historically, the valuing of deaf children’s voices on their own schooling has been underrepresented in educational policies, curriculum frameworks and discursive practices and, in particular, in the debates and controversies ... -
Modeling the use of electronic books to engage young EFL readers in a teacher education methodology course in the U.A.E. (Pre-published version)
(TESOL Arabia, 2008)Teaching “Reading” has traditionally focused on using conventional printed books. However, there is a growing shift towards interactive reading approaches, some of which may incorporate digital media. This article discusses ... -
Read aloud experiences in a second language Arabic context: effects upon vocabulary acquisition (Pre-published version)
(TESOL Arabia, 2010)Teachers exhibit a variety of styles in reading aloud, which influences vocabulary development. This study examined the effects of two conditions on student’s second language English vocabulary acquisition: listening to ... -
A musical approach to shared reading: effects upon English vocabulary acquisition in an Arabic environment
(TESOL Arabia, 2010)The notion of music enhancing language learning is increasingly common in the bilingual classroom. Yet, little is known about the effects of music on second language vocabulary acquisition. This article ... -
In my reading classroom…Emirati student teachers constructing teaching styles in the college classroom (Pre-published version)
(TESOL Arabia, 2012)Those entering the education profession in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) often face considerable obstacles in the government’s primary school system, particularly in the teaching of English reading. Traditional curricula ... -
Exploring the impact of teacher education pedagogy on EFL reading teacher identities: a United Arab Emirates case (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2014)In response to a demand by government authorities to significantly improve educational practices in the UAE, and to simultaneously Emiratize and professionalize the teaching profession (Mograby, 1999; UAE Ministry of ...