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Innovative initiatives: targeting the declining science enrollments in Ireland
(The New Zealand Annual Review of Education, 2006)
At the time of economic growth in Ireland, declining numbers of students enrolling in the sciences is emerging as an educational concern. Using a 2002 Government of Ireland commissioned report on science: The Task Force ...
Texting gender and body as a distant/ced memory: an autobiographical account of bodies, masculinities and schooling
(The Journal Of Curriculum Theorizing, 2004)
Researchers, many of whom have come from a feminist perspective, have used
autobiographical approaches to highlight issues of inequity and to centre the
experiences of women where historically such experiences have been ...
Contradictions and tensions of the practice of masculinities in school: interrogating embodiment and 'good buddy talk'
(Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2005)
Masculinity, and gender more broadly, has been theorised as a series of performative and discursive acts (Butler, 1990) which are constituted contextually and culturally. Not only are masculinities enacted differently ...
Masculinities and femininities and secondary schooling: the case for a gender analysis in the postmodern condition
(Sage, 2006)
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A review of science outreach strategies north and south: with some recommendations for improvement
(Centre for Cross Border Studies, 2006)
No abstract available
Sexualities, genders, bodies and sport: changing practices of inequity
(Oxford University Press Canada, 2007)
No abstract available
'Frictional' relationships tension in the camp: focusing on the relational in under-represented students' experiences in higher education
(2009)
Drawing upon data collected as part of a research project exploring diversity in Irish higher education, this article focuses on the relational realm of under-represented students¿ experiences. It commences with a brief ...
Retention initiatives for ICT based courses
(IEEE, 2005-10-19)
Unlike our European neighbours, Ireland failed to develop its educational system in the immediate postwar years and it was only in 1967 that second-level education was provided free to all citizens. Since 1970, the educational ...