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Spoon-feeding to tongue-biting: An evolving instructional framework for primary school mathematics
(St. Patrick's College, Dublin, 2013)
In this paper, I examine the evolution of an instructional framework for primary mathematics during a sustained, on-site professional development project with one case study school. The project attempts to bridge the gap ...
Children negotiating their own beliefs: The religious education of young children in families in the Republic of Ireland (Pre-published version)
(ACU [Australian Catholic University], 2011)
Daring to be creative: Divine creation as a blueprint for human creativity (Pre-published version)
(Tablet Publishing Company, 2012)
Narrating the deaf self in autoethnography
(NUIG [National University of Ireland Galway], 2016)
Autonomy in education: implications for the institution and the subject.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)
Like many other philosophers and educationalists, Durkheim and Habermas
understand education to have a political function. Education is understood as a
means to assure socioZpolitical stability ...
Becoming and being DLP: Designated Liaison Persons’ experience of the role in the Irish primary school (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2018-02-28)
This paper reviews the role of the Designated Liaison Person (DLP) for Child
Protection in the Irish primary school context. This is a role assigned by the
Board of Management to a person in the school who oversees all ...
Well-being: bridging the gap between the language of policy and the culture of schools
(ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), 2019)
While there is an increasing interest in the notion of well-being—politically, societally
and educationally—it remains an enigmatic, multifaceted concept that sometimes
eludes definition in academic articles. This article ...
Experiences, barriers and identity: the development of a workshop to promote understanding of and empathy for the migrant experience
(Centre for Global Education, 2017)
This article explores the development of a workshop that was designed to provide participants with a safe space in which to explore and empathise with the experiences of migrants. In this case the Irish centenary ...
Exploring global citizenship education through integrated curricula
(Centre for Global Education, 2016)
This article is informed by a qualitative case study of a primary school in England which developed an integrated school curriculum which focused on global citizenship education (GCE). The school followed a number of steps ...
“To educate themselves”: southern black teachers in North Carolina’s schools for the freedpeople during the Civil War and reconstruction period, 1862–1875 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2019-11-26)
Between 1862 and 1875, most of the teachers in North Carolina’s
schools for the freedpeople were black. The vast majority of these
teachers were from the South, mostly North Carolina, and many
were former slaves. Yet, ...