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Limerick City's coat of arms: a visual review
(Mary Immaculate College, 2024-09-20)The presentation hopes to provide an approach to understanding the Limerick City Coat of Arms and its evolution. It does not provide an exhaustive list of the Coat of Arms, hoping that the presentation will provoke interest ... -
The benefits of mindfulness as a weekly activity: experiences from a male homeless service
(St. Kliment Ohridski Press, 2022-06)The social services in Ireland are organized by different organizations which have different views on social activities within residential and homeless services for ser-vice-users. Mindfulness has become a ‘buzzword’ when ... -
Una identidad pragmática, estética y fenomenológica (Pre-published)
(Fundación Mindán Manero, 2017-06)The conflict between aesthetic experience and the modern vision of the world frames aesthetic experience as a defender of the plurality derived from the perspectives of individuals. This signifies that aesthetic experience ... -
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 ... -
Understanding the self as hypostasis: a phenomenological view on therapeutic presence
(Tribunal of Milan, 2021)Natural scientific views on the human being have the tendency to reduce selfhood to a static object. This tendency arguably derives from the need to objectify the present in which the human being is found. Phenomenology ... -
The hypothetical imperative as an indicator of irrational will: the case of the 2018 Toronto van attack
(Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association (IFIASA), 2023)The categorical imperative inherent in Kant's ethics has had indubitable historical influence on societies worldwide whether in the form of laws, democracy or public deliberation. The Toronto Van Attack of 2018 and its ... -
The embodied fluency model: uncanniness between the mere-exposure effect and angst
(Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association (IFIASA), 2022)Human beings can be said to naturally seek familiarity in their environment for survival purposes, and this can explain why the mere-exposure effect, where being merely exposed to external factors in our environment, can ... -
The role of the environment in system creation in Luhmann and Hegel: between imagination and reason
(National University of Galway and St. Angela's College, 2023-08)This paper will aim to accomplish two things to show Luhmann’s and Hegel’s support of language and communication as dependent on culture, but also their differences with respect to how culture is formed in conjunction with ... -
Demoicracy as a viable outcome of a party-less European Union
(International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS), 2017-10)The European Union today is a cosmopolitan entity that functions in conjunction with political parties. This reliance on parties is one example of cosmopolitanism’s need to replicate the nation-state at supranational and ... -
A qualitative analysis on the client’s experience of the propeller model approach to counselling therapy, Dublin Business School
(DBS Library, 2023-03)The successful development of psychotherapeutic and counselling approaches can reflect the evolution and innovation within the industry of psychological treatment. Measuring the benefits of an approach involves inquiry ... -
Improv to improve: the importance of philosophy in the university
(Sociedad Española de Fenomenología, 2016)The status of philosophy is contingent upon the civilizations that embrace or undermine its importance. Such status is never fully understood, nor clear, due in part to its inutility. In a goal-oriented world, philosophizing ... -
Integrating mathematics and science in secondary classrooms
(The British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 2018-06)This theoretical paper discusses the value of integrating mathematics and science in the secondary classroom, understanding gained from previous studies in this field, and the means by which lessons of this nature can be ... -
The role of expectancy-value theory in upper secondary level students’ decisions to avoid the study of advanced mathematics
(Routledge, 2023-04-25)Widening and increasing participation in advanced mathematics studies at upper secondary level (age 16-18) is a significant challenge for most education systems. Policy makers in Ireland have attempted to address this ... -
“To educate themselves”: southern black teachers in North Carolina’s schools for the freedpeople during the Civil War and reconstruction period, 1862–1875 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2019-11-26)Between 1862 and 1875, most of the teachers in North Carolina’s schools for the freedpeople were black. The vast majority of these teachers were from the South, mostly North Carolina, and many were former slaves. Yet, ... -
Developing critical citizenship in an evolving Irish culture through interactive workshops
(The SPHE Network, 2017)This chapter explores the development and facilitation of a workshop exploring migration in Ireland. The workshop was piloted at the Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) Conference in 2016 and was facilitated on ... -
Intercultural education in the Irish primary classroom
(The SPHE Network, 2021)As a result of rapidly increasing inward migration over the last twenty years, Ireland has changed to become a nation with a wealth of diversity. As a result, schools have had to ensure pupils from a range of diverse ... -
Exploring global citizenship education through integrated curricula (Pre-published)
(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 ... -
Experiences, barriers and identity: the development of a workshop to promote understanding of and empathy for the migrant experience (Pre-published)
(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 ... -
Promoting democratic values in initial teacher education: findings from a self-study action research project
(Centre for Global Education, 2023)Democracy and global education are intrinsically linked in their shared commitment to debate and the opportunity to evaluate multiple perspectives and make informed decisions on topics that impact the world around us. A ... -
Enabling critical thinking development in higher education through the use of a structured planning tool (Pre-published)
(Routledge, 2023-09-14)Critical thinking is a core component of higher education teaching and learning across multiple disciplines. However, supporting students to develop critical thinking skills can be challenging due to their prior experiences ...