• An Irish perspective on initial teacher education: How teacher educators can respond to an awareness of the ‘absurd’ 

  Ó Gallchóir, Ciarán; McGarr, Oliver (Taylor and Francis, 2021)

  Internationally, initial teacher education has experienced shifts towards competence and school-based programmatic reforms. As a result, literature on the role of teacher educators operating within the academy suggests a ...
• Exploring the influence of Irish post primary teachers’ profession on their perceived stress 

  Devitt, Brian (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Research has consistently indicated that teaching is a stressful occupation with large numbers of teachers experiencing burnout (Hakanen et al. 2006). High stress is associated with poorer physical and psychological ...
• Let's talk about career guidance in secondary schools! A consideration of the professional capital of school staff in Ireland and England. 

  Siobhan Neary; Hearne, Lucy; Neary, Siobhan (Springer, 2021)

  The delivery of a comprehensive career guidance service in secondary schools through the whole school model that equips students with requisite career learning and development competencies has garnered credence in recent ...
• How task conflict can support creative problem solving in teams by stimulating knowledge sharing, critical and creative thinking and meta-cognition 

  Kiernan, Louise; Ledwith, Ann; Lynch, Raymond (IntechOpen, 2021)

  This study explores how task conflict can support creative problem solving in teams and the cognitive processes applied. As multidisciplinary teams can be diverse in nature, they may not always partake competently in the ...
• Wheelchair service provision education for healthcare professional students, healthcare personnel and educators across low-to high-resourced settings: a scoping review protocol 

  Kamalakannan, Sureshkumar; Rushton, Paula W.; Giesbrecht, Ed; Rusaw, David F.; Bouziane, Selsabil-A.; Nadeau, Melodie; McKee, Jennifer; Gowran, Rosemary J.; Kirby, R. Lee; Pedersen, Jessica P.; Tasiemski, Tomasz; Burrola-Mendez, Yohali; Tofanin, Marco; Goldberg, Mary; Pearlman, Jon (Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  Purpose: Appropriate wheelchair provision is necessary for addressing participation barriers experienced by individuals with mobility impairments. Health care professionals involved in the wheelchair service provision ...
• Trans children and the necessity to complicate gender in primary schools 

  Neary, Aoife (Taylor and Francis, 2021)

  Trans children have become more visible in primary schools in recent years. Arising from a qualitative study with twelve parents of trans children (aged 5–13) and six primary school educators in Ireland, this paper explores ...
• Pre-service early childhood educators’ career motivations: moving from a thematic analysis to recognising the performative nature of talk and text 

  McGarr, Oliver; Gavaldon, Guillermina (Springer, 2021)

  Encouraging students to reflect on their decisions to become early childhood educators and explore their future intentions is commonly employed in pre-service programmes. Notwithstanding the value of such tasks, research ...
• Investigating the different dimensions of preservice mathematics teachers’ understanding – the case of factorisation 

  Fitzmaurice, Olivia; Hayes, Jacqueline (Edith Cowan University, 2020)

  This paper reports on a study designed to investigate preservice teachers’ understanding of factorisation, a topic not explicitly taught within their teacher education programme, but one they will be required to teach ...
• The design, implementation and evaluation of a teacher development programme to empower graduate students teaching in the undergraduate chemistry laboratory 

  Flaherty, Aisling (University of Limerick, 2018)

  Graduate students who fulfil teaching roles in the undergraduate laboratory play an important role in establishing a positive learning environment. A host of graduate-student teacher training programmes have been developed, ...
• Underneath the veneer of techno-positivity – exploring teachers’ perspectives on technology use in further education and training 

  Ryan, Brendan; McGarr, Oliver; McCormack, Orla (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  This qualitative study explores the views of nine teachers working in the Further Education and Training in Ireland regarding the use of technology. Drawing on in-depth interviews, thematic analysis exposed a techno-positive ...
• The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) from the perspective of Irish teacher educators 

  Gleeson, Jim; Lynch, Raymond; McCormack, Orla (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), one of the main pillars of the Bologna Process, was heavily influenced by external forces such as internationalisation, globalisation and market values. It was also immune to ...
• Knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score (KOOS) responder criteria and minimal detectable change 3–12 years following a youth sport-related knee injury 

  Toomey, Clodagh M.; Whittaker, Jackie L.; Palacios-Derflingher, Luz; Emery, Carolyn A. (MDPI, 2021)

  The applicability of thresholds that constitute an acceptable score or meaningful change on the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) in cohorts ≥ 5 years following knee injury is not well understood. The ...
• What’s the point? Impact of Ireland’s bonus points initiative on student profile in mathematics classrooms 

  O'Meara, Niamh; Prendergast, Mark; Treacy, Páraic (Western Australian Institutes for Educational Research, 2020)

  In 2012 mathematics was assigned a special status within the Irish post-primary school curriculum with the introduction of a bonus points initiative (BPI). Students are now awarded additional credit in their upper ...
• Exploring teachers’ professional development to support the roll-out of computer science in Irish second-level schools 

  McGarr, Oliver; McInerney, Clare; Exton, Chris; Power, Julie (LERO & EPI-STEM, 2020)

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• Autobiographical memory and future imaginings as a resource for pedagogical understanding in initial teacher education 

  Hinchion, Carmel (Nova Southeastern University, 2020)

  The focus of this article is twofold: (a) It explores how autobiographical memory and future imaginings can be used as a resource for pedagogical understanding in Initial Teacher Education, and (b) The paper engages a ...
• Comparing discourses on reflective practice in teacher education policy in Ireland and Norway: critical reflection or performance management? 

  McGarr, Oliver; Emstad, Anne Berit (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  Policy documents relating to teacher education in Ireland and Norway from 2008 to 2016, representing periods of change in teacher education in both jurisdictions, were analysed to explore the discursive construction of ...
• A fusion of research-informed teaching and teaching-informed research: designing a scalable online ecosystem for new partnerships in educational research 

  Connolly, Cornelia; Hall, Tony; Ryan, Marie; McMahon, Jennifer; McGann, Merek; McGann, Alison (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2020)

  This paper examines the unbundling of research in the context of the Teachers’ Research Exchange (T-REX) platform, the national flagship Internet platform in Ireland for teachers to access, use and engage in research. ...
• Building teacher knowledge for quality mathematics education in Ireland 

  Goos, Merrilyn; Hannigan, Ailish; O'Donoghue, John; Ní Ríordáin, Máire (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Improving mathematics proficiency among Irish school children has long been a topic of national debate.123The research team at EPI*STEM, the national centre for STEM Education based at the University of Limerick (UL), ...
• An exploration into the criteria used in assessing design activities with adaptive comparative judgment in technology education 

  Buckley, Jeffrey; Canty, Donal; Seery, Niall (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  The use of design assignments for teaching, learning, and assessment is considered a signature of technology education. However, there are difficulties in the valid and reliable assessment of features of quality within ...
• Interdisciplinary group work in higher education: a student perspective 

  Kelly, Regina; McLoughlin, Eilish; Finlayson, Odilla E. (Western Australian Institutes for Educational Research, 2020)

  This research intends to provide understanding of the impact that a module consisting entirely of collaborative interdisciplinary science tasks had on students’ group work behaviour, attitude and motivation. It was ...

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