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Autonomy in education: implications for the institution and the subject.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)Like many other philosophers and educationalists, Durkheim and Habermas understand education to have a political function. Education is understood as a means to assure socioZpolitical stability ... -
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 ... -
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)The BRFP staff includes one full-time Project Leader, and four additional fulltime staff comprising a Social Worker, Information Officer/Hospitality Centre Leader, Family Links Social Worker and Traveller Support Worker. ... -
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering Summary Report
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)The services provided by the BRFP embrace an ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner 1979) in that they see each person, not as an isolated individual but as a member of a family and of the wider community. Consequently, ... -
'Behind the teacher’s back': an ethnographic study of deaf people’s schooling experiences in the Republic of Ireland (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2014)Historically, the valuing of deaf children’s voices on their own schooling has been underrepresented in educational policies, curriculum frameworks and discursive practices and, in particular, in the debates and controversies ... -
Being teachers, being women, being human: critically re-storying teacher praxis in selected DEIS schools in Ireland, 2013-2015
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)A growing body of recent literature on teaching has developed a focus on teachers’ perspectives and on life in schools, (Clandinin, 1986; Clandinin and Connelly, 1995; Freeman and Schmidt, 2000; Jalongo and Isenberg with ... -
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 ... -
The challenges that face the primary school teacher in coping with grief and loss in a multicultural setting
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)Death is a fact of life. The primary school teacher is often at the forefront of the child’s life and therefore has to be able to help a child who has suffered a bereavement to cope with this loss. During my teaching ... -
Changes in roles and relationships in a school-university partnership
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Child protection in Irish primary schools: supports and challenges in the role of Designated Liaison Person for child protection (Pre-published version)
(Oxford University Press, 2022-03)This article reviews child protection in the Irish primary school context from the perspective of the Designated Liaison Person (DLP). Research undertaken with DLPs is presented which illuminates the supports and challenges ... -
Childhood interrupted: a story of loss, separation, and reconciliation (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2016)This essay presents a story of personal loss and childhood trauma experienced by the author in 1968. Written in autoethnographic form, the author narrates a particular time in his life when he lost his hearing and subsequently ... -
Children negotiating their own beliefs: The religious education of young children in families in the Republic of Ireland (Pre-published version)
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The church and the public sphere
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The church's social mission
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Classroom teaching and formation: developing educational partnership
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Conversation: A key to relationship for action
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A critical (auto) ethnographic study of deaf people's experience of education and culture in Ireland.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)At the heart of this thesis is the methodological and theoretical framework in which to conduct a study of deaf people’s experience of education and culture in Ireland. Methodologically, the research design is critical ... -
Daring to be creative: Divine creation as a blueprint for human creativity (Pre-published version)
(Tablet Publishing Company, 2012)