Department of Learning, Society and Religious Education: Recent submissions
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Educational disadvantage in Limerick: the socio-economic and spatial context
(Mary Immaculate College, 2007)Relationship between educational and social disadvantage particularly strong in Limerick urban area. As well as economic restructuring, this may be due to the spatial concentration of social disadvantage, and the depth of ... -
Evaluation of the Doodle Families Literacy Programme Pilot, Dublin: Childhood Development Initiative
(Childhood Development Initiative, Dublin., 2016)The Doodle Families Literacy Programme was a pilot programme that was delivered in three DEIS Band 1 primary schools in Limerick during the period of April to June 2015 for First Class children and their parents. Doodle ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
An ethnography exploring how hegemony and power mediate agency and structure among a group of 6th year Irish girls in a middle-class Post-Primary school
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This is an ethnographic study of a culture-sharing group of 6th year girls. Facing the high stakes Leaving Certificate examinations while on the cusp of adulthood, this study contributes to the agency-structure debate from ... -
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 ... -
“Passing as Normal”: Living and Coping With the Stigma of Deafness (Pre-published version)
(Sage, 2016)This autoethnography presents a narrative account of the author’s experience of living and coping with the stigma of deafness. First, the autoethnographic stories explore the author’s experience of face-to-face encounters ... -
A tale of two schools: educating Catholic female deaf children in Ireland, 1846–1946 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2015)This paper discusses the contributions of the Dominican Sisters and Sisters of Mercy in running schools for female deaf children in Ireland during the period 1846 to 1946. The schools were established as part of an attempt ... -
'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 ... -
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 ... -
Male primary teachers' understandings of masculinities and their impact on their lives
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)Ireland has a long history of heroic male teacher ranging from the 1916 revolutionist, Pádraig Pearse, to literary giants such as The Master, Bryan MacMahon and Teacher Man, Frank McCourt. The charismatic male teacher trend ... -
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 ... -
North-South educational partnership, a critical analysis: an Ireland, Uganda, Lesotho and Zambia case study
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)The term ‘partnership’ has emerged to dominate development aid discourse. It is a term which suggests movement towards effective development relations based on powerfully appealing yet contested ideas of symmetry and equity. ... -
An examination of adult access in higher education in Ireland: policy and practice
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)The rationale for this study is to examine the under-researched relationship between national policy and higher education practice in relation to contemporary access initiatives for adult learners in Ireland. This study ... -
An embedded case study of how knowledge, competences and skills are acquired through coaching, mentoring and training for leadership at an Adult Education Centre in Ireland
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This study explores a proposed construct of leadership in the adult education sector. The construct is a fusion of sustainable, transformational and distributed leadership that is mediated by the Competing Values Framework ... -
A quantitative and qualitative inquiry into the relationship between self-esteem and coping processes of university students
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)University life brings with it many stressful events, which place varying demands on students. During this time many students leave home for the first time, have a new found social life, a parttime job and also have to ... -
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 ... -
Primary school pupils’ life skills development the case for primary school pupils development in Uganda
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)Life skills education was introduced as part of the thematic curriculum in Uganda between 2007 and 2012. An infusion approach to life skills is taken within that curriculum, whereby life skills are to be taught through the ...