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Igniting a spark?: an investigation into how an Irish arts partnership can support primary teachers in their teaching of arts education
(2023-10-24)
In recent years, arts partnerships have increased in popularity as a means of delivering arts
education in schools. Creating opportunities for both teachers and artists alike, arts partnerships
can enhance a shared sense ...
The experience of Irish-medium and English-medium primary schools for children with down syndrome and their parents
(2023-10-24)
Background
Recent studies indicate that learners with Down syndrome can become competent bilinguals and biliterates. However, less is known about whether immersion education is a suitable and beneficial education setting ...
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 ...
Performing the fractured puppet self : employing auto-ethnopuppetry to portray and challenge cultural and personal constructions of the disabled body
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)
This research project examines personal and cultural constructs of the disabled body, with the creation of the puppet play Pupa as its practical culmination. The testimonials of six participants (including my own), all ...
The holy wells of County Kilkenny in terms of documentary coverage, location, ritual practice and onomastic concept
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)
Not alone is water crucial for human existence but it is fundamental to human religious practices worldwide. This thesis examines holy-well definition which establishes that holy wells are generally natural sources of water ...
Cad a spreagann rogha laethúil teanga sa Ghaeltacht: anailís ar an rogha teanga i nGaeltacht na nDéise
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)
‘Cad a spreagann rogha laethúil teanga sa Ghaeltacht - anailís ar an rogha teanga i nGaeltacht na nDéise’
Is í aidhm an taighde seo chun a fhiosrú dé chúis go maireann an Ghaelainn i bpobal beag urlabhra in Oirdheisceart ...
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 ...
Queer ecofeminism: from binary feminist environmental endeavours to postgender pursuits
(2023-11-03)
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ecofeminism: Inception; Development and Challenges
Chapter 2: On De-Essentialising Ecofeminism
Chapter 3: Gendered Climate Politics: Between the Far Right and Social ...
What is strong over what is wrong: an exploration of Irish educational psychologists' use and perceptions of strengths based practice
(2023-11-03)
The present research aims to explore how Educational Psychologists (EPs) employ strengths based practice (SBP) and to elicit their thoughts and experiences of working from a strengthsbased lens. Research in the area of SBP ...
What are primary school teachers' attitudes toward introversion in students?
(2023-11-06)
The existing literature suggests a potential implicit social desirability associated with the extrovert personality and as a result, extroverts are accommodated across various work and educational settings, leading to a ...