Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Playful maths! The influence of play-based learning on academic performance of Palestinian primary school children
(Springer, 2022-02-11)This study explores the relationship between play-based learning and achievement in mathematics in Palestinian elementary school children. Forty teachers from eight schools received training in play-based pedagogies and ... -
The clustering of physical activity and screen time behaviours in early childhood and impact on future health-related behaviours: a longitudinal analysis of children aged 3 to 8 years
(BMC, 2022-03-21)Meeting physical activity and screen time guidelines has been associated with improved health in children. Research has shown that lifestyle behaviours happen in combination and can be tracked into later life. Thus, a ... -
Factual fictions: an investigation into audience understandings of documentary
(2022-09-05)The aim of this thesis is to investigate audience understandings of documentary. A review of the relevant literature was carried out on the areas of: the Evolution of Documentary; Subjectivity, Objectivity and Truth; Reality ... -
Flow, play, feel and creativity: some of the potential outcomes of playing by ear from a recording
(GIA Publications Inc, 2017)Playing by ear from a recording is, in the history of human music-making, a relatively new activity, stemming as it does from only the last one hundred years or so, since the invention of audio recording and play-back ... -
Pedagogy and professional development- research report for ETHNO
(Jeunesses Musicales International, 2022-06-07)The aim of the pedagogy and professional development research was to document local, national and global understandings of Ethno pedagogy, and to describe and theorize its processes in action, including the ways it was ... -
Nurturing collaborative creativity through group playing by ear from recordings in formal music education
(Springer Nature, 2019-07-12)This chapter discusses research on informal learning (Green in How popular musicians learn. Ashgate Publishers, Aldershot, 2002) with a particular focus on playing by ear from recordings in groups and how it contributes ... -
Bringing different generations together in music-making – an Intergenerational Music Project in East London
(Intellect, 2011-12-09)This article describes an intergenerational music project that took place as part of a bigger project, entitled the Music for Life Project that explored the social and emotional benefits of music participation for people ... -
Benefits experienced by older people in group music-making activities
(Intellect, 2012-08-23)This article focuses on the reported benefits of participation in musical activities identified by people over the age of fifty, who participated in the Music for Life Project. The participants engaged in weekly musical ... -
Collaborative playful experimentation in Higher Education: a group ear playing study
(Sage Publications, 2016-08)Exploring how western classical musicians could develop their aural, improvisatory and creative musicianship skills through playing by ear is an area that has recently received noteworthy attention within Higher Education. ... -
An investigation into the profile of entrants to concurrent (post-primary) initial teacher education in Ireland, 2009–2020
(Routledge, 2021-03-26)In recent times, Ireland’s post-primary schools have experienced considerable social, cultural, economic and technological change. As a result newly qualified teachers are entering an increasingly diverse and rapidly ... -
The effects of peer feedback, within an ‘assessment as learning’ approach, on the learning and development of student-teachers
(University of Cumbria, 2020-09-21)This paper describes a study that examined the effects of peer feedback on the learning and development of a group of eighty-one second-year undergraduate post-primary student-teachers on a four-year concurrent initial ... -
Teachers' professional identities and development education
(Centre for Global Education, 2019)This article explores the relationship between development education (DE) and the notion of teachers’ identity. The Teaching Council’s Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers (2016a) is seen as a significant step forward ... -
“Didn’t know she could shout that loud”: the performance of fandom among women followers of women’s golf
(2022-06-20)While a growing body of evidence exists around women fans of men’s sport, less is known about women fans’ perspectives and identities in relation to women’s sport, and what is known tends to focus on homogenous representations ... -
The teacher as co-creator of drama: a phenomenological study of the experiences and reflections of Irish primary school teachers.
(Routledge, 2017-05-24)Classroom drama in the Irish primary school context remains a relatively new endeavour and is largely under-researched. The knowledge base for all aspects of teacher education should be informed by rigorous reflection on ... -
A case for change in how we refer to dual career athletes: a person first approach (Pre published)
(Routledge, 2021-10-21)Rationale/Purpose: Dual Career Athletes (DCA) combine education, training, or work with a sporting career within broader sports management and educational environments. A holistic approach embraces the DCA as a “person ... -
The impact of usage-based approaches on second language learning and teaching
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-09)The application of usage-based models of language learning began to gain ground in the early twenty-first century, particularly in the field of first language acquisition, and, more recently, are gaining traction in second ... -
Data-driven learning: a call for a broader research gaze
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-04)Over the last three decades, data-driven learning (DDL) has been widely championed by those of us who see the exciting opportunities that it can bring to the language learner. From the initial days of DDL, there has been ... -
Walking back to Earth: the enduring appeal of ancient pilgrimage as portal to the sacred for the contemporary seeker
(2022-05-16)This thesis offers a perspective on pilgrimage, from the vantage point of the pilgrim’s reflection on their embodied experience and an analysis of that experience from theological and psychological hermeneutics, in particular. ... -
Holding on to ‘rites, rhythms and rituals’: Mike McCormack’s homage to small town Irish life and death (Pre published)
(Springer Nature, 2018-07-31)The Goldsmith Award-winning Solar Bones is a novel focused on, and dedicated to, loss. As Marcus Conway comes to terms with his own death, he pays homage to the “rites, rhythms and rituals” that were part of his life in ... -
The disbanded Royal Irish Constabulary and forced migration, 1922–31
(2022-04-08)This article concerns the men of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) who were disbanded from the force in 1922 and felt obliged to leave Ireland for Britain. Afforded unique – if not always entirely sufficient – financial ...