Deenihan, Jeremiah Timothy(University of Limerick, 2012)
Sport Education (SE) (Siedentop, Hastie, & van der Mars, 2011) is a curriculum and instructional model for physical education that has received a wealth of research attention (Hastie, de Ojeda, & Luquin, 2011; Kinchin, ...
Kinsella, Elaine Louise(University of Limerick, 2012)
This thesis documents a PhD research project, conducted over three years, that
investigates the important features and functions associated with heroes. This
programme of research was designed to add to the scant literature ...
Effective school-university partnerships can enhance a pre-service teachers’ (PST)
experience and encourage experienced teachers to become cooperating teachers (CT).
International literature alludes to the lack of ...
Background: To ensure the right of the child with an intellectual disability to grow up in the family home is maintained, this study explores mothers ability to overcome the many challenges to the provision of care so as ...
Background: There is a paucity of research profiling the anthropometric measures and physical performance indicators of hurling athletes. Such profiles are essential to optimising the physical preparation structures of ...
This thesis consists of three papers taking a sequential approach to the problem of groin/ hip injury in rugby union (RU). Firstly the literature surrounding the identification of groin/ hip injury risk factors in field ...
The majority of research associated with the analysis of the rowing stroke is concentrated in laboratories due to the aquatic nature of rowing. The limitations of the tethered connection between the boat and land, has meant ...
Background: Inflammatory arthritis (IA) is the term given to a group of chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases that primarily include rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Physical activity (PA), defined ...
The primary purpose of this thesis was to determine the associations between low intensity physical activities and indices of health in a particularly inactive population, adolescent females. To achieve this, methodologies ...