RSS 1.0Learning, Society and Religious Education (Theses)
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Exploring the relationships between psychological wellbeing, religiosity and religious coping amongst adolescents at Senior Cycle level in Irish post-primary schools: an empirical enquiry
(2023-09-29)Recent years have witnessed an increase in the discourse surrounding mental health and wellbeing worldwide (Chandra & Chand, 2018), while mental health-related issues amongst adolescents have risen steadily in prevalence ... -
How do school networks operate to support DEIS schools? A case study analysis of two Transforming Education through Dialogue (TED) Project facilitated school networks
(2022-04-06)This research sought to understand two networks of DEIS schools, PLUS and OSCAILT, from members’ perspectives including their evolution, how they operate to support members and how learning and knowledge creation take place ... -
What is the experience of navigating a new life in Ireland for international protection applicants and refugees and what role does education play?
(2022-04-01)This research is political in nature. It analyses the system of reception for international protection applicants and refugees in Ireland, investigates the nature of life within Direct Provision and explores the ways in ... -
Education in West Africa as a contested space between global politics and local cultures: an exploration through critical discourse analysis
(2020-12-17)This research contributes to the discourse on resolving some of the challenges facing contemporary education-formal schooling across West Africa, particularly the challenge of resentment toward formal schooling in the ... -
Experiences of post-primary school communities transitioning to a settings-base for mental health and wellbeing promotion: the impact of policy on context, competition and care
(2020-12-11)This multi-case case study explores the experiences of post-primary school communities as they transition to a mental health and wellbeing promotion model. The research study includes the voices of students, principals, ... -
"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 ... -
Human rights education: reflections on theory and practice
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Public housing in Limerick City: a profile of tenants and estates
(Limerick City Council, 2005)Income poverty is both pervasive and profound among LCC tenant households. Certain groups and areas show a particularly high risk of poverty. Spatial concentration of the poor is exacerbated by estate-specific problems. ... -
Educational disadvantage in Limerick: the socio-economic and spatial context
(Mary Immaculate College, 2007)Relationship between educational and social disadvantage particularly strong in Limerick urban area. As well as economic restructuring, this may be due to the spatial concentration of social disadvantage, and the depth of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A critical (auto) ethnographic study of deaf people's experience of education and culture in Ireland.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)At the heart of this thesis is the methodological and theoretical framework in which to conduct a study of deaf people’s experience of education and culture in Ireland. Methodologically, the research design is critical ... -
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 ... -
Being teachers, being women, being human: critically re-storying teacher praxis in selected DEIS schools in Ireland, 2013-2015
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)A growing body of recent literature on teaching has developed a focus on teachers’ perspectives and on life in schools, (Clandinin, 1986; Clandinin and Connelly, 1995; Freeman and Schmidt, 2000; Jalongo and Isenberg with ... -
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. ... -
An examination of adult access in higher education in Ireland: policy and practice
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)The rationale for this study is to examine the under-researched relationship between national policy and higher education practice in relation to contemporary access initiatives for adult learners in Ireland. This study ... -
An embedded case study of how knowledge, competences and skills are acquired through coaching, mentoring and training for leadership at an Adult Education Centre in Ireland
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This study explores a proposed construct of leadership in the adult education sector. The construct is a fusion of sustainable, transformational and distributed leadership that is mediated by the Competing Values Framework ... -
A quantitative and qualitative inquiry into the relationship between self-esteem and coping processes of university students
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)University life brings with it many stressful events, which place varying demands on students. During this time many students leave home for the first time, have a new found social life, a parttime job and also have to ... -
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 ... -
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 ...