Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT)
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Our mission is to foster a culture of excellence in teaching and learning; promoting methods that encourage active learner engagement and critical thinking.
We are research-led and participate in international organisations and fora in the areas of teaching, evaluation, technology, civic engagement and higher education research.
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The management and creation of knowledge: Do Wikis help?
(IGI Global, 2011)The increasing need for effective collaboration among third-level interdisciplinary groups suggests the necessity of developing teaching pedagogy that infuses teaching techniques with technologies. This case study analyses ... -
Trust schools and the politics of persuasion and the mobilisation of interest
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-06-21)This paper sets out the theoretical and methodological approach of a study of the politics of persuasion and the mobilisation of interest in relation to the Trust schools initiative in England. Drawing on the discourse ... -
Openness and praxis: exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education
(Athabasca University Press, 2017)Open educational practices (OEP) is a broad descriptor of practices that include the creation, use and reuse of open educational resources (OER) as well as open pedagogies and open sharing of teaching practices. As compared ... -
Struggling for visibility in higher education: caught between neoliberalism 'out there' and 'in here' - an autoethnographic account
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-01)What happens when neoliberalism as a structural and structuring force is taken up within institutions of higher education, and works upon academics in higher education individually? Employing a critical authoethnograph ... -
Private sentiment and public issues Irish medium education and complex linguistic and political Identification
(Waxman, 2012)Is it possible to construct a non-essentialist politics of place? This is a central question explored in this chapter. The empirical focus of the chapter is the cultural politics of language surrounding the Irish-medium ... -
The trouble of ‘living with others’: language, community and the politics of belonging
(SAGE Journals, 2016)In this article I ask myself the following question: ‘Rather than try to escape the seemingly awful choice between the private and the public, between the particular and universal, or between justice and freedom, I ask if ... -
Challenging lifelong learning policy discourse: Where is structure in agency in narrative-based research?
(2007)Can adult educational research on learning and identity counter the individualising of neoliberal government policy that seeks to constrain educational choices to those that contribute to government economic agendas? ... -
The making of Irish-speaking Ireland: The cultural politics of belonging, diversity and power
(2012)This paper is about linguistic justice issues in the post-colonial context of an Irish-speaking region in the south-west of Ireland, drawing on a study of political mobilization around the Irish-medium education policy ... -
Theorizing Progress: Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology in Higher Education
(Wiley, 1999-08)A conceptual framework of positions on women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) was developed, showing a chronological progression of the main approaches to women's underrepresentation in SET during the past 20 ... -
The Galway Symposium on Design for Learning: curriculum and assessment in higher education (Review Essay)
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-06-14)The higher education (HE) system in Ireland, in common with many systems around the world, is facing a period of uncertainty. In the current economic climate, the seven universities in Ireland - plus the approximately 20 ... -
Creativity in Education: challenging the assumptions
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-06-25)The creative process is mysterious, intriguing and elusive. The above quote from celebrated Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami evokes an other-wordliness, a dream-like state, an escape from reality that many other creative ... -
An ethical commitment: responsibility, cosmopolitanism and care in the internationalised university
(Routledge, 2013-10)The internationalization of higher education has decisively moved from being a scholarly tradition of mobility across borders to an almost purely economic concern. This is a trend that is most pronounced in countries such ... -
The Contradictions of Policy and Practice: Creativity in Higher Education
(London Review of Education (Taylor & Francis), 2012-07)Whilst much of the rhetoric of current educational policy champions creativity and innovation, structural reforms and new management practices in higher education run counter to the known conditions under which creativity ... -
Forum Critical Thinking: Symposium on the Future of Universities: Introduction
(Sage, 2010)This introduction is for a special forum with contributions from the Galway Symposium on Critical Thinking: the Future of Universities. -
Irish Higher Education and the Knowledge Economy
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Exploring the Unknown: Levinas and International Students in English Higher Education
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)This article will start with a description of a small, pedagogic event: a snippet of conversation recorded in a classroom as part of a research project on working in groups with postgraduate students. I will use these few ...