Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Good grief: changing attitudes to childhood grief in children's literature
(2023-10-24)In the modern context, it is understood that childhood grief is a normal response to loss and that bereaved children require support and guidance to navigate their grief. However, less than a century ago it was believed ... -
Foreign language anxiety in the Irish third-level context and the potential of performative pedagogy for learners' of French
(2023-10-23)Who among us has never been lost in translation at one point or another when learning a language? Given its complex nature, the study of second language (L2) acquisition has become a largely interdisciplinary enterprise ... -
The perceptions of Irish school personnel of critical incident training and critical incident response from school psychological services and other services: an appreciative inquiry
(2023-10-23)Background: The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) defines a Critical Incident (CI) as: “any incident or sequence of events which overwhelms the normal coping mechanisms of the school” (Department of Educational ... -
The best of both worlds: exploring the socialisation of physical education specialism graduates as generalist teachers with expertise in PE
(2023-10-23)This research investigated the self-efficacy, beliefs, and practices of generalist primary school teachers who undertook the Bachelor of Education with a specialism in PE between 2016 and 2019. Data were collected through ... -
Sarah Atkinson (1823-1893) in The Irish Quarterly Review, Duffy’s hibernian magazine, Duffy’s hibernian sixpenny magazine, the month and the Irish monthly: a study of nineteenth-century Irish women writers and their literary and publishing networks (1857-1893)
(2023-10-23)Anchored in the nineteenth-century periodical archive, this recovery project takes Sarah Atkinson (1823-1893) as a centripetal force. An influential Irish Catholic middle-class writer and philanthropist, Atkinson lists ... -
"Nothing about me without me": exploring how educational psychologists in Irish disability, educational and primary care services elicit and represent the voices of school aged children and young people with special educational needs
(2023-10-23)Background: National and international policy stipulate the importance of listening to the voices of children and young people (CYP) with special educational needs (SEN). During consultation, educational psychologists ... -
Exploring the influence of early screen use in the home on psychological development from an ecological perspective
(2023-10-23)The present research focuses on the influence that early screen use in the home has on young children’s psychological development. While a large body of research has been conducted on the influence that screens have on ... -
The Irish question: an investigation into Irish language self-efficacy beliefs in adults
(2023-10-23)The vast majority of adults that have received their education in Ireland undertake compulsory Irish for around 13 years. However, over 60% of adults claim to have no Irish speaking ability (CSO, 2018). This study seeks ... -
‘Jaysus, keep talking like that and you’ll fit right in’- an investigation of oral Irish English in contemporary Irish fiction
(2023-10-02)This project is an interdisciplinary and comparative investigation of the reproduction of linguistic features of Irish English (IrE) present in contemporary IrE fiction. To do this, a corpus of over 1 million words comprising ... -
The quiddity of inclusion: an interpretative phenomenological study of early childhood teachers experiences of the LINC (Leadership for Inclusion in the early years) programme on perceptions and practice of inclusion.
(2023-10-02)This interpretative hermeneutic phenomenological (IHP) study focuses on the lived experiences of early years educators engaged in the Leadership for Inclusion (LINC) programme, a continuing professional development (CPD) ... -
The effectiveness of an online dialogic reading intervention for improving the oral language skills of children attending a DEIS school in Ireland
(2023-10-02)Background: Dialogic Reading (DR) is a well-established, evidence-based, interactive reading intervention. Research indicates that children from low-socioeconomic backgrounds benefit less well from this intervention than ... -
Being there- a qualitative arts-based narrative inquiry into the lived experiences of women in management and leadership in high education in Ireland
(2023-10-02)The story of a male dominated leadership environment in academia is one which has been well told both nationally and internationally, as has the description of the academy as one in which the devaluing of women has become ... -
The effectiveness of a school-based test anxiety intervention at primary-level
(2023-10-02)Background Test anxiety (TA) is characterised as an extreme fear of assessment which has a debilitating effect on performance. Despite growing concern over TA in primary-level education in Ireland, research on evidence-based ... -
All singing from the same hymn sheet? An exploration of the lived experiences of joint work between Irish mainstream primary school teaching staff and NEPS psychologists to facilitate inclusion between 2015-2020.
(2023-10-02)Background. The role of the NEPS psychologist is said to have evolved in recent years in response to the global inclusion movement. In Ireland, the introduction of Circular 0013/2017 provided primary schools with greater ... -
"A form to accommodate the mess": a genetic (self-)translation study of Samuel Beckett’s dramatic writing
(2023-10-02)This thesis analyses the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s self-translated dramatic texts in order to better understand how an author recaptures the cadences, originality and political implications of his earlier versions ... -
An appreciative inquiry into coaches’ perspectives on the inclusion of young people with autism in sport clubs in Ireland
(2023-10-02)Background: Young people with autism spectrum difference (ASD) engage in fewer physical activities and participate less frequently in sport than their peers. To date, research has focused on the barriers to the participation ... -
A journey through learner language: tracking development using POS tag sequences in large-scale learner data
(2023-09-29)This PhD study comes at a cross-roads of SLA studies and corpus linguistics methodology, using a bottom-up data-first approach to throw light on second language development. Taking POS tag n-gram sequences as a starting ... -
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 ... -
School life following acquired brain injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences of adolescents, their parents and teachers in the Irish context
(2023-09-29)Aims: Research on acquired brain injury (ABI) has acknowledged the importance of environmental factors in the rehabilitation process. Given that adolescents spend a large proportion of their time in the school setting, ... -
Heidegger on truth and subjectivity: a nihilistic interpretation
(2023-09-29)This research offers an original interpretation of Heidegger's philosophy, which can be termed 'nihilistic' with reference to Heidegger's notion of nothingness and his reception of nihilism. The interpretation contributes ...