Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Investigating language corpora as a grammar development resource
(2023-09-25)The digital era has brought new concepts and transformations into language development and has given rise to technology-based approaches to learner autonomy. It has shifted the focus from deductive to inductive learning, ... -
An exploration of the impact of formal and non-formal teaching and learning approaches on piano students’ musical knowledge, skills, engagement and motivation: a longitudinal action research study
(2023-09-25)Traditional approaches to piano pedagogy tend to be dominated by Western Classical Music practices where musical literacy and technical skills take precedence over aural skills. This can lead to fragmented musical understanding ... -
An evaluation of the compatibility of mindfulness and ethos in the Irish Catholic primary school
(2023-09-25)Mindfulness has exploded in popularity across several elements of society, including healthcare, education and commerce. This growth in the practice is supported by an increasing body of research on the benefits of mindfulness ... -
Studying revolution: accounts of Mary Immaculate College, 1918-1923
(Limerick City and County Council, 2022-04-28)In 1921 the War of Independence entered its most violent phase and this has been reflected in Limerick City and County Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme this year. But against the backdrop of ambushes such as ... -
Survival and assimilation: loyalism in the interwar Irish Free State (Pre-published version)
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022-12-03)In 1997, historian R. B. McDowell suggested that when “compared to the thorough methods for dealing with unpopular minorities … in eastern and central Europe and elsewhere, the harassment of loyalists was not notably ... -
A case study of beginning teachers’ lived experiences of engagement with parents, particularly parents of children with special educational needs
(2023-09-19)The research study aimed to make a contribution to the knowledge-gap in the area of parent-teacher engagement. Specifically, it sought to explore the nature of eight beginning teachers’ lived experiences of engagement with ... -
The Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association and Irish ex-servicemen of the First World War, 1922–1932 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2023-08-20)In 1925, the Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association (SILRA), originally founded for the relief of southern Irish loyalist refugees in Britain, created a fund for ex-servicemen resident in the Irish Free State (IFS). ... -
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 ... -
Re-Presenting Christian Tradition as a Source of Inspiration and Integration for Educators in Catholic Schools—A Proposal
(Religions, 2021-01)Abstract: A significant challenge facing leaders of Catholic schools in Ireland today is to ensure an appreciation for, and understanding of, the Catholic identity of the school among members of staff. A first aim of ... -
Using Peircean abduction to understand teacher mentoring
(Routledge, 2022-05-15)Lesson observation is frequently used in teacher induction programmes to support newly-qualified teachers in their reflection and classroom enquiry. This article uses an elaboration of Peirce’s abduction to illustrate how ... -
The Curriculum in an era of global reform: Bobbitt’s ideas on efficiency and teacher knowledge
(Routledge, 2021-02-12)Over a hundred years later, The Curriculum by John Franklin Bobbitt continues to be relevant for understanding contemporary issues in education. One issue has been the association with elements of reform such as scripted ... -
Credit allocation and programmes design: insights from metaphor
(Routledge, 2020-10-01)Volume is the dominant metaphor underlying the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Credits are used to ‘express the volume of learning based on the defined learning outcomes and their associated ... -
Health and wellbeing in an outdoor and adventure sports context
(MDPI, 2020-04-14)While the world responds to the latest health issue, it is perhaps timely that we think broadly about human and planetary health and wellbeing. Across the globe, there is a call for a different future, one that prioritises ... -
Engaging practitioners as co-researchers in national policy evaluations as resistance to patriarchal constructions of expertise: the case of the end of year three evaluation of the access and inclusion model
(Frontiers Media, 2022-12-23)Seventeen Practitioner Researchers (PRs) were engaged as co-researchers in an evaluation commissioned by Ireland’s Department of Childhood, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth (DCEDIY), as an innovative aspect in ... -
Principled pattern curation to guide data-driven learning design
(Elsevier, 2022-08-06)Insights from corpus linguistics (CL) have informed language learning and materials design, among many other areas. An important nexus between CL and language learning is the use of Data-Driven Learning (DDL), which draws ... -
Aristotle on efficient and final causes in Plato (Pre published)
(2022-11-09)In Metaphysics A 6, Aristotle claims that Plato only recognises formal and material causes. Yet, in various dialogues, Plato seems to use and distinguish efficient and final causes too. Consequently, Harold Cherniss accuses ... -
Getting younger (Pre published)
(2022-11-09)I argue that in Plato’s Parmenides 141a6-c4, things in time come to be simultaneously older and younger than themselves because a thing’s past and present selves are equally real. As a result, whatever temporal relation ... -
The last natural philosophers in the Phaedo (Pre published)
(2022-11-08)This paper examines the possible sources of the two theories introduced by Plato in Phaedo 99b2-c6. First, it shows that the theories belong to people who remain unpersuaded by the teleology introduced by Socrates (Phaedo ... -
‘The golf course doesn’t know what gender you are’: feminist perspectives in the online blog of a female professional golfer
(Routledge, 2022-09)Many female athletes are using online platforms to control their own portrayals, and such representations have been examined mostly through neoliberal and postfeminist perspectives, which position female athletes as ... -
Measurement and prevalence of adult physical activity levels in Arab countries
(Elsevier, 2021-07)Physical activity (PA) has a profound effect on health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that physical inactivity is the fourth leading global risk for mortality, responsible for raising the risk of ...