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An Exploration of the use of therapeutic intervention across school psychology services in Ireland
(2020-01-27)
Aims: Educational legislation in the United Kingdom (UK) of the 1980s, in support of children and young people with additional needs, placed a duty on educational psychologists (EPs) to complete statutory assessments ...
Teacher perspectives on the transition planning process into post-secondary education (PSE) for students with a diagnosis of autism in post-primary schools in Ireland
(2020-01-08)
Aims: This study explored teachers’ perspectives on transition planning (TP) into post-secondary education (PSE) for students with autism attending mainstream classes or an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) unit attached to ...
Crisis and problematicity : Europe from the perspectives of Edmund Husserl and Jan Patocka
(2020-01-22)
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During the past century a discourse of crisis has accompanied the discourse on Europe. While there has been talk of various crises in relation to Europe, up until a certain point in the 20th century the ...
The Untold story of the monster: a psychoanalytic analysis of the monster through the anamorphic lens
(2020-02-04)
Research identifies the perception of evil as a mechanism to segregate people from inhuman and monstrous transgressors. Luke Russell defines that ‘the evil of the agent is supposed to provide a complete explanation of the ...
The canon of pedagogical grammar for ELT: a mixed methods study of its evolution, development and comparison with evidence on learner output
(2020-01-22)
The teaching of grammar plays a key role in English Language Teaching (ELT).
Pedagogical grammars such as English Grammar in Use and the Azar-Hagen
Grammar Series are mainstays within the profession, their enduring ...
Positive youth development and resilience amongst early school leavers
(2020-01-24)
Early School Leaving (ESL) represents a massive loss of potential to individuals who leave school and can have a much wider social and economic cost. This study examines Early School Leaving (ESL) and resilience among young ...
"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 ...
An examination of the career aspirations of Irish children within the framework of goal contents theory
(2020-02-07)
Aims: This study explored the following questions: (a) what are students‟ career aspirations and goal contents? (b) are there predictive factors of students‟ career aspirations and goal contents? (c) how do students‟ career ...
A postcolonial and disability studies analysis of a selection of popular contemporary novels about disability
(2020-12-10)
This thesis will combine postcolonial theory and disability theory to analyse the representation of characters with a disability and their family members in a selection of contemporary popular novels. The texts examined ...
The Solheim Cup: media representations of golf, gender and national identity (Pre-published)
(Emerald publishing, 2021-11-29)
The increasing inclusion of women in sport has been mediated by societal gendered expectations. It is an oft-cited notion that sport is “an institution created by and for men” (Messner and Sabo, 1990: 9), and sport is ...