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Teacher competencies in health education: results of a Delphi study

Moynihan, Sharon; Paakkari, Leena; Välimaa, Raili; Jourdan, Didier; Mannix McNamara, Patricia (Public Library of Science, 2015)

Objective The aim of this research study was to identify the core competencies for health education teachers in supporting the development of health literacy among their students. Method/Results A three round Delphi ...

Teacher Design Teams (TDTs) - building capacity for innovation, learning and curriculum implementation in the continuing professional development of in-career teachers

Mooney Simmie, Geraldine (Taylor and Francis: Routledge, 2007)

From October to December 2005, six biology associates were employed to progress the connection between curriculum implementation and the continuing professional development of teachers at regional level. The associates ...

Teacher professional development and ICT: an investigation of teachers studying a postgraduate award in ICT in education

McGarr, Oliver; O'Brien, J. (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2007)

The Schools IT2000 initiative, launched in 1997, was the first large-scale attempt to integrate ICT into teaching and learning in the Irish education system. Prior to its launch computer use in Irish schools was inhibited ...

Teacher responses to inquiry-based pedagogy in Irish post-primary schools : case studies on the use of a virtual chemistry laboratory as a vehicle for educational change.

Donnelly, Dermot (University of Limerick, 2011)

The lack of uptake of science subjects in Post-Primary Schools (Secondary/High Schools) and on to university is a continuous cause for concern, both nationally and internationally. In the Strategy for Science, Technology ...

Teachers as overseas volunteer teacher educators: a case study of Global Schoolroom as a professional encounter

Liddy, Margaret (University of Limerick, 2015)

The study sought to address how volunteer teacher educators translate their overseas experience into their understanding of global development and their professional knowledge and practice in the context of a professional ...

Teachers’ perceptions of whole-school guidance counselling in second-level why teachers’ perceptions matter

Hearne, Lucy; Geary, Tom; King, Paul (Education Matters, 2017)

This article will report on findings from a recent explanatory case study (Hearne et al., 2016) carried out against a background of policy, practice, and research on a whole-school approach to guidance counselling in ...

Technology as a discipline: a case study

McGarr, Oliver (The Liffey Press, 2011)

Technology was introduced as a Leaving Certificate subject in 2007 after several years of development and is now one of four senior cycle technology-based subjects on the curriculum. To the outside observer, its introduction ...

Technology leadership or technology somnambulism? Exploring the discourse of integration amongst ICT coordinators.

McDonagh, Adrian; McGarr, Oliver (Taylor and Francis, 2015)

This research aimed to explore Information and Communication Technology (ICT) coordinators’ discourse in relation to ICT integration in a sample of Irish post-primary schools. As ICT leaders in their schools, how they ...

Theory, practice and interiority: an extended epistemology for engineering education

Cosgrove, Tom; O'Reilly, John (Taylor and Francis, 2018)

Engineering education is appropriately concerned with technical problem solving. However, the philosophical tradition has periodically asserted that technical rationality is but one mode of rationality. Informed by experience ...

Towards a psychosocial theory of ageing with lifelong intellectual disability

Dukes, Eileen (University of Limerick, 2018)

Background: In the context of ageing populations in the western world, people with lifelong disability are among the fastest growing groups of older people. The largest sub-group of these are older people with intellectual ...

Towards an understanding of the measurement of individual progression in adult guidance

Hearne, Lucy (Waterford Insitute of Technology, 2009)

The overall aim of this research study is to consider the development of a best practice framework for the longitudinal tracking of individual progression in the Irish Adult Educational Guidance Initiative (AEGI). A specific ...

The transition of early school-leavers from mainstream post-primary school into a Youthreach education centre: an exploration of staff perspectives and the implications for the centre's guidance service

Kearney, Noel (University of Limerick, 2014)

Although research on Early School Leaving is comprehensive, the focus of research has overlooked both the personal experience of the early school leavers who succeed in returning to education programmes and the staff who ...

Ultra-short race-pace training (USRPT) In swimming: current perspectives

Nugent, Frank J.; Comyns, Thomas M.; Kearney, Philip Edward; Warrington, Giles D. (Dovepress Medical Press, 2019)

The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in sports science research due to the ever-increasing professionalization of sport. As a result, many alternative training methodologies that challenge traditional training ...

Unravelling 'Ethos' and section 37(1): the experiences of LGBTQ teachers

Neary, Aoife (2014)

Section 37 (1) of the Employment Equality Act allows religious institutions to differentiate in the recruitment of employees in order to maintain religious ‘ethos’. It also facilitates legal action against an employee who ...

The use of case-based learning in the development of student teachers’ levels of moral reasoning

O'Flaherty, Joanne; McGarr, Oliver (Taylor and Francis, 2014)

The important role of the teacher in developing morally sensitive individuals is widely acknowledged. This paper examines the integration of context specific moral development interventions within a 4-year undergraduate ...

The use of virtual simulations in teacher education to develop pre-service teachers' behaviour and classroom management skills: implications for reflective practice

McGarr, Oliver (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

Dealing with the often-overwhelming nature of the school placement experience, and the associated demands of classroom management, can be a significant challenge for many pre-service teachers. These challenges point to the ...

Using autobiographical comics to explore life stories and school experiences of pre-service early childhood educators

McGarr, Oliver; Gavaldon, Guillermina; Saez de Adana, Francisco (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

Exploring one’s life-history in order to unearth how one’s past influences current conceptions of teaching is commonly employed in teacher education. Recognising the constructed and situated nature of autobiographical ...

Using drama in education to develop pre-service English teachers’ understanding and capacity in teaching social justice at post-primary level

Hennessy, Jennifer (Liffey Press Dublin, 2011)

One of the most common forms of non-recognition in education is for a group to be generally left outside educational discourse by not being named or known (Lynch and Baker 2005). Addressing inequalities of respect and ...

The visual arts practice PhD in Ireland: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Halvey, Susan (University of Limerick, 2018)

The Visual Arts Practice PhD (VAP PhD) has emerged during the last few decades in part due to the assimilation of autonomous art schools into the fabric of the bigger Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) (Baker, 2009; ...

What discourse of science dominates lower post-primary education in Ireland?

Freeman, Shane (University of Limerick, 2011)

This study examines the discourse of science presented at lower Post-Primary level in Ireland. In the investigation the text materials for the course were qualitatively examined. The data analysis revealed five key themes ...

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