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"I want them to have a good education" : The "New Irish" parents and the primary school system
(2020-02-07)Just over one in 10 primary school age children in Ireland are first-generation immigrants (Department of Education and Skills [DES] 2018a). An even larger number of Irish primary school pupils have at least one immigrant ... -
IMPACT maths programme
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The impact of primary school closures in Ireland resulting from the coronavirus pandemic on principal and teacher wellbeing (Pre-published version)
(SAGE Publications, 2023-09-24)In December 2019, in Wuhan in China an outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) was reported. In late February 2020, the first cases of the virus were recorded in Ireland. By 11th March, the World Health Organisation had ... -
Improv to improve: the importance of philosophy in the university
(Sociedad Española de Fenomenología, 2016)The status of philosophy is contingent upon the civilizations that embrace or undermine its importance. Such status is never fully understood, nor clear, due in part to its inutility. In a goal-oriented world, philosophizing ... -
Integrating mathematics and science in secondary classrooms
(The British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 2018-06)This theoretical paper discusses the value of integrating mathematics and science in the secondary classroom, understanding gained from previous studies in this field, and the means by which lessons of this nature can be ... -
Intercultural education in the Irish primary classroom
(The SPHE Network, 2021)As a result of rapidly increasing inward migration over the last twenty years, Ireland has changed to become a nation with a wealth of diversity. As a result, schools have had to ensure pupils from a range of diverse ... -
Intercultural education, picturebooks and refugees: approaches for language teachers
(CLELEjournal, 2014)Picturebooks can be used as a means of teaching a range of intercultural issues as well as enriching learners’ linguistic and literacy skills. As windows and mirrors, picturebooks can be a powerful vehicle in the classroom ... -
Invisibility and Inclusivity: Approaches to religious difference in schools.(Pre-Published version)
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The journey to G.R.A.C.E: Creating an international community of practice
(Religions, 2023-01)Abstract: Global Researchers Advancing Catholic Education (G.R.A.C.E) is a unique Community of Practice (CoP). The CoP methodology was applied within G.R.A.C.E for its capacity to connect multidisciplinary and international ... -
Keeping track of vulnerable young people: A policy agenda
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Limerick City's coat of arms: a visual review
(Mary Immaculate College, 2024-09-20)The presentation hopes to provide an approach to understanding the Limerick City Coat of Arms and its evolution. It does not provide an exhaustive list of the Coat of Arms, hoping that the presentation will provoke interest ... -
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 ... -
The meaning of partnership in development: lessons in development education
(Center for Global Education, 2011)A number of partnerships between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the global North and South have been developed in recent decades with the aim of bridging the North/South knowledge divisions which currently exist. ... -
Narrating the deaf self in autoethnography
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The nature and purpose of religious education in contemporary Ireland (Pre-published version)
(Veritas ( Irish Catholic Bishops), 2012) -
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. ... -
“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 ... -
Policy actors’ experiences of the decisionmaking processes in Irish primary educational policymaking 1990-2023: a continuum from a ‘cosy consensus’ to a ‘fight in the ditch’
(2025-03-21)This research investigated the mechanisms by which decisions are made surrounding Irish primary educational policymaking. Policymaking can be viewed as a complicated and complex process abundant with change, tension and ... -
Primary school pupils’ life skills development the case for primary school pupils development in Uganda
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)Life skills education was introduced as part of the thematic curriculum in Uganda between 2007 and 2012. An infusion approach to life skills is taken within that curriculum, whereby life skills are to be taught through the ...