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New direction for education sector (Pre-published version)
(Public Affairs Ireland, 2011)
Worldwide trends in children’s and adolescents’ body mass index, underweight, overweight and obesity, in comparison with adults, from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2,416 population-based measurement studies with 128.9 million participants (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2017)
Background: Being underweight as well as overweight and obese in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body ...
Teachers’ and students’ perspectives of participating in the ‘Active Classrooms’ movement integration programme (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2017)
This paper evaluates perceptions of 5 teachers and 129 students of participating in an 8-week primary school movement integration intervention. Following training and provision of resources, teachers were asked to teach 2 ...
An intervention to improve the physical activity levels of children: Design and rationale of the ‘Active Classrooms’ cluster randomised controlled trial (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)
Background: Recent evidence demonstrates that children are not engaging in the recommended 60mins of moderate to vigorous PA per day. PA interventions have been acknowledged by the WHO (2010) as a key strategy to increase ...
The effect of walking on risk factors for cardiovascular disease: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised control trials (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)
Objective: To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised control trials that examined the effect of walking on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Methods: Four electronic databases and reference lists ...
Becoming and being DLP: Designated Liaison Persons’ experience of the role in the Irish primary school (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2018-02-28)
This paper reviews the role of the Designated Liaison Person (DLP) for Child
Protection in the Irish primary school context. This is a role assigned by the
Board of Management to a person in the school who oversees all ...
Experiences, barriers and identity: the development of a workshop to promote understanding of and empathy for the migrant experience
(Centre for Global Education, 2017)
This article explores the development of a workshop that was designed to provide participants with a safe space in which to explore and empathise with the experiences of migrants. In this case the Irish centenary ...
Exploring global citizenship education through integrated curricula
(Centre for Global Education, 2016)
This article is informed by a qualitative case study of a primary school in England which developed an integrated school curriculum which focused on global citizenship education (GCE). The school followed a number of steps ...
Representations of race and racism in the textbooks used in southern black schools during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861–1876 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2016-08-30)
During the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861–1876,
formerly enslaved men and women demanded access to education.
Aided by northern white missionaries, free blacks and some southern
whites, freed men and ...