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Using comment only marking in a mathematics classroom in the Republic of Ireland: experience and learning of a student teacher
(Journal of Teacher Action Research, 2016)
Formative assessment is a well recognised and researched method of assessing student learning and understanding in the classroom. One method of formative assessment is the use of comment only marking. In this paper, a ...
Why choose teaching? An international review of empirical studies exploring student teachers career motivations and levels of commitment to teaching
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-03-18)
Why do individuals all over the world choose to become school teachers? What motivates them to become educators of young people, and how committed are they to this cause when they enter their teacher education courses? ...
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 ...
Realising the management challenges for science communication outreach: a Social marketing perspective
(2010)
Social marketing recognises that neither government nor education alone can solve the
growing range of complex and multifaceted social policy issues facing societies around
the world. Social marketing is about behavioural ...
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 ...
Distancing to self-protect: The perpetuation of inequality in higher education through socio-relational dis/engagement
(2011)
This paper explores the social class-differentiated behaviours of access and traditional-entry students, based on a three-year constructivist grounded theory study with 45 undergraduates at an Irish university. The participant ...
Dependence-Deconstruction: Widening Participation and Traditional-Entry Students Transitioning from School to Higher Education in Ireland
(2011)
Equality and quality in higher education (HE) are frequently juxtaposed in the literature. This paper presents evidence to contest deficit assumptions about widening participation, particularly the belief that entering HE ...
'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 ...
Enhancing children's literacy skills: designing the Q-Tales ecosystem for children's e-book design and publication
(Wiley, 2017-07-20)
Digital media, interactive storytelling and e-books are ubiquitous in contemporary education, and consequently play an increasingly important role in the development of children s nascent and emergent literacy. Digital ...