Browsing Learning, Society and Religious Education (Peer reviewed publications) by Title
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A qualitative analysis on the client’s experience of the propeller model approach to counselling therapy, Dublin Business School
(DBS Library, 2023-03)The successful development of psychotherapeutic and counselling approaches can reflect the evolution and innovation within the industry of psychological treatment. Measuring the benefits of an approach involves inquiry ... -
The role of expectancy-value theory in upper secondary level students’ decisions to avoid the study of advanced mathematics
(Routledge, 2023-04-25)Widening and increasing participation in advanced mathematics studies at upper secondary level (age 16-18) is a significant challenge for most education systems. Policy makers in Ireland have attempted to address this ... -
Roots and Wings: Teacher Education for Diversity in a Changing Ireland
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Shaping public policy: Is there a place for values-led debate and discourse in the public sphere?
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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 ... -
Teacher-Writer Memoirs as Lens for Writing Emotionally in a Primary Teacher Education Programme
(Teaching Education (Routledge), 2008)This paper examines student teachers experiences of writing emotionally through the lens of teacher-writer memoirs. The participants were ninety-nine postgraduate student teachers in a sociology of teaching module in an ... -
The Theology and spirituality of joining the dots
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Three principles of Serendip : insight, chance, and discovery in qualitative research
(Qualitative Studies in Education: Taylor & Francis, 1996)This article discusses the role of serendipity in qualitative research. Drawing on ideas and methodological suggestions from a set of classic and recent fieldwork accounts, the authors examine conceptions of serendipity ... -
Time, space and presences: Bangladeshi girls' friendships in an English primary school
(Social Care Ireland, 2000)The study reported here examined what it is like to be and have friends and how developing conceptions of friendships become embedded in children's peer cultures. It took place in two mixed Year 5 and Year 6 classes in a ... -
“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, ... -
Understanding the self as hypostasis: a phenomenological view on therapeutic presence
(Tribunal of Milan, 2021)Natural scientific views on the human being have the tendency to reduce selfhood to a static object. This tendency arguably derives from the need to objectify the present in which the human being is found. Phenomenology ... -
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 ... -
Writing the deaf self in autoethnography (Pre-published version)
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The youth labour market in Cumbria: Employer and young people’s perspectives
(Institute for Employment Research, 2002)Significant changes have occurred in the pattern of post-compulsory destinations of young people in England over the past few decades, the most important of which has been the increasing proportion of school leavers ...