• Academic resilience and buoyancy in second-level schools: understanding and supporting student success 

  Comerford, Jason (University of Limerick, 2017)

  Despite the reduction in early-school leaving rates in Ireland beginning at the end of the last decade at the onset of the economic recession, there remain persistent social class differences in educational attainment and ...
• Core entrepreneurial competencies and their interdependencies: insights from a study of Irish and Iranian entrepreneurs, university students and academics 

  Rezaei-Zadeh, Morteza; Hogan, Michael; O'Reilly, John; Cunningham, James; Murphy, Eamonn (Springer, 2016)

  The purpose of this paper is to advance our understanding of core entrepreneurial competencies and their interdependencies. Developing entrepreneurial competencies is increasingly seen as important to foster entrepreneurship. ...
• Parent-mediated interventions to promote communication and language development in children with Down syndrome aged between birth and six years 

  O'Toole, Ciara; Lee, Alice S.Y; Gibbon, Fiona E; van Bysterveldt, Anne K; Conway, Paul F; Hart, Nicola J (Cochraine Collaboration, 2016)

  This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To systematically assess the evidence for parent-mediated interventions aimed at improving communication and language development ...
• "I chose to become a teacher because". Exploring the factors influencing teaching choice amongst pre-service teachers in Ireland 

  Hennessy, Jennifer; Lynch, Raymond (Taylor and Francis, 2017)

  This study investigated the suitability of the FIT-Choice scale for use within an Irish Initial Teacher Education setting with a cohort of first year pre-service teachers (n=143), from across five different subject ...
• An evaluation of the WAVE academy approach to reducing post traumatic stress disorder 

  Corcoran, Roisin P; O'Flaherty, Joanne; Morrissey, Laura; Ross, Steven M; Cheung, Alan C.K (Center for Promoting Ideas, 2016)

  The Wave Academy is a non-profit organization dedicated to communicating the physical and mental benefits of warm water therapy, and increasing the circle of individuals and communities that benefit from this therapy. ...
• Integrating design heuristics into your classroom 

  Leahy, Keelin; Yilmaz, Seda; Seifert, Colleen; Daly, Shanna R (American Society for Enginering Education, 2016)

  While successful concept generation is essential for innovative solutions, engineering students often receive limited instruction about how to accomplish it. Design Heuristics have been shown to facilitate concept generation ...
• Crossing the individual / group divide; brainsketching in education 

  Leahy, Keelin; Mannix McNamara, Patricia (American Society for Engineering Education, 2016)

  The concept of group brainstorming for idea generation is widely used in business settings; in Ireland it remains underutilised as a pedagogical tool. This study investigated the potential use of individual creative ...
• Educational innovation and change in the teaching and learning of science in the contemporary Irish school and classroom 

  Power, Sancha Anne (University of Limerick, 2012)

  This research study is focused primarily on educational innovation and change in the Irish lower secondary science classroom. The overall goal of the research was to encompass three domains through the development of a ...
• Monopolising the STEM agenda in second-level schools: exploring power relations and subject subcultures 

  McGarr, Oliver; Lynch, Raymond (Springer, 2017)

  The ubiquitous and often pervasive expansion of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) agenda across global education systems has largely gone uncontested. Strategic efforts to build on perceived natural ...
• Exploring the position of curriculum studies across the continuum of teacher education in Ireland 

  Lynch, Raymond; McCormack, Orla; Hennessy, Jennifer (Taylor and Francis, 2017)

  Curriculum, while often narrowly defined, is a contested space that stimulates continuing international debate, yet the importance of curriculum studies is frequently overlooked across the continuum of teacher education. ...
• Exploring homophobia and transphobia in primary schools in Ireland 

  Neary, Aoife; Irwin-Gowran, Sandra; McEvoy, Eileen (University of Limerick and Gay and Lesbian Equality Network, 2017)

  In 2013, the Department of Education and Skills Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools were issued, requiring all primary and secondlevel schools to include homophobia and transphobia in their ...
• Evaluating a guidance counsellor education programme: the methodological complexities 

  Liston, Jennifer; Geary, Tom (Elsevier, 2014)

  The focus of this paper is on the methodological considerations of a PhD study which evaluated a guidance counsellor education programme, offered by a University in Ireland. The programme is offered as a two-year part-time ...
• Clinical performance assessment tools in physiotherapy practice education; a systematic review 

  O'Connor, Anne; McGarr, Oliver; Cantillon, Peter; McCurtin, Arlene; Clifford, Amanda M (Elsevier, 2017)

  Background: Clinical performance assessment tools (CPATs) used in physiotherapy practice education need to be psychometrically sound and appropriate for use in all clinical settings in order to provide an accurate ...
• An examination of health promoting schools in Ireland 

  Moynihan, Sharon; Jourdan, Didier; Mannix McNamara, Patricia (Emerald Group Publishing Limited.,, 2016)

  Purpose: This paper reports the results of a national survey that examined the extent of implementation of health promoting schools (HPS) in Ireland. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative research design was adopted. ...
• Exploring the theory-practice gap in initial teacher education: moving beyond questions of relevance to issues of power and authority 

  McGarr, Oliver; O'Grady, Eammanuel; Guilfoyle, Liam (Taylor and Francis, 2017)

  The theory-practice divide in teacher education can be viewed not simply as an acceptance of a body of knowledge but instead an acceptance of the teacher educator s authority to determine what is relevant ...
• Supporting discourse using technology-mediated communication: a model for enhancing practice in second level education 

  O'Connor, Adrian (Uiversityof Limerick, 2016)

  Despite the pervasiveness of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in our daily lives, such technology has not been as widely adopted in formal education. When ICT is used within the classroom, its impact on pupil ...
• In search of élan vital: a Gestalt exploration of the role of self-regulation in mastering work related stress – an autoethnographic study using directed content analysis 

  Danaher, Morgan (University of Limerick, 2016)

  Contemporary stress theory emphasises the role of individual differences in stress appraisal and coping. Although this view of stress as a process has achieved much scientific acceptance, complexity around the nature of ...
• A queer politics of emotion: reimagining sexualities and schooling 

  Neary, Aoife; Gray, Breda; O'Sullivan, Mary (Taylor and Francis, 2016)

  This paper draws together Hochschild’s (1979; 1983) concepts of emotional labour and feeling rules with Ahmed’s affective economies (2004a, 2004b; 2008; 2010) and queer phenomenology (2006a, 2006b) as a way to address wider ...
• Lesbian, gay and bisexual teachers negotiations of civil partnership and schools: ambivalent attachments to religion and secularism 

  Neary, Aoife; Gray, Breda; O'Sullivan, Mary (Taylor and Francis, 2017)

  As legal structures for same-sex relationships are introduced in many contexts, the politics of sexuality are negotiated along religious/secular lines. Religious and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBT-Q) ...
• Civil partnership and marriage: LGBT-Q political pragmatism and the normalisation imperative 

  Neary, Aoife (SAGE Publications, 2016)

  The last decade has seen significant change in LGBT-Q politics in many (neo)liberal democracies. In Ireland, Civil Partnership (CP) was signed into law in 2010. While LGBT-Q advocacy groups had been divided over the terms ...

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