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From vision to practice: are children at the centre or clinging on at the periphery of practice within early childhood care and education provision? (Pre-published version)
(CHILDforum, 2011)Concepts such as child-centred practice, children’s agency and active participation feature strongly within Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) policy. They have been shaped by the UN Convention on the Rights of the ... -
Gender and Religious Education in the Primary Classroom.
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Geometric growing patterns: what’s the rule?
(AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2015)We explore several examples of the way in which to use geometrical growing patterns. Examples are situated within interesting contexts to elicit algebraic generalisations by working through a five-phase analysis process. -
Get up! Stand up! (version 2) : an evaluation of a school-based social skills programme
(2020-01-07)Background: Social and emotional (SE) skills play an important role in a person’s development, while a range of negative outcomes are associated with poor SE skills (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning ... -
‘Getting into the nucleus of the school’: experiences of collaboration between special educational needs co-ordinators, senior leadership teams, and educational psychologists in Irish post-primary schools.
(2023-09-27)Objective: The research explored barriers and facilitators to collaboration between National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) psychologists, Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs) and Senior Leadership ... -
Getting the balance right: the equals sign
(INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2011)Much of the number work carried out in primary classrooms contains elements of algebraic reasoning. In fact, equals sign work in junior and senior infants underpins much of the algebraic reasoning used in later years. In ... -
Gifted students’ understanding of statistics: analysis of data arising from a small group teaching experiment
(Routledge, 2003)The principal objective of the study was to gain insight into cognitive processes related to three gifted students’ understanding of data. Small group teaching experiment methodology was used to uncover students’ understanding ... -
God in the ‘bits and pieces of everyday’ – sacred objects and human encounter with the divine.
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‘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 ... -
Growing up outdoors (Pre-published version)
(Early Childhood Ireland, 2019)Did you know that nearly one in six Irish parents don’t think it’s safe for their five year old child to play outside at home during the day? Irish and international research indicates that neighbourhood safety has an ... -
“The habits of history”: a research-based play script
(The Qualitative Report, 2018)In this article, derived from her doctoral dissertation, the author (a teacher educator in drama in Ireland) presents her students’ initial responses to her performance of a one-woman play, “Goldilocks’s Testimony.” The ... -
Having fun with functions
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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 ... -
Highlighting the DSM-V's omission of client context
(University of Niš, 2023-09)The DSM-V is a product of a medical culture that holds individual symptoms as important within the search for biological indicators and psychopathological genetic etiologies (Van Praag, 1990, p. 21). Such an approach ... -
A historical analysis of senior cycle state examinations in the school subject English from 1878-2016: a longitudinal study
(2021-05-04)This thesis critically examines senior cycle examination in Ireland for the school subject English from colonial to modern times. It explores the development of examinations as a method of senior cycle assessment and, in ... -
The home-school-community liaison (HSCL) scheme: summary evaluation report
(Educational Research Centre (St. Patrick's College, Dublin), 1995) -
Home-school-community liaison scheme: final evaluation report
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A hop, skip and a jump to school! (Pre-published version)
(Early Childhood Ireland, 2018)As we come towards the end of the preschool year, parents may now be focused on the summer holidays and making the transition to primary school. Parents may be asking you what they should be doing over the summer to prepare ...