Browsing School of Education by Subject "Education"
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Guidance to an Independent Adult Life
(National Centre for Guidance in Education, 2021)In this article, Des Aston of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID), provides an insightful reflection on Post-School Transitions for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in the The ... -
Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in the Republic of Ireland - A National Response
(Inclusive National Higher Education Forum, 2019)Given the context that people with intellectual disabilities face significant barriers and limited postsecondary opportunities, a number of initiatives in Ireland and internationally have been established with the aim of ... -
Home-schooling in the Republic of Ireland
(2023)Internationally, there continues to be a rise in the popularity of home-schooling. Although the growth in the numbers of families choosing this alternative approach was evident prior to the Covid-19 Pandemic school ... -
How to adopt an "inclusion as process" approach and navigate ethical challenges in research.
(Sage Publishers., 2022)This case study explores how Mary Quirke aimed to engage in Inclusionary Research for her doctoral research project and how her “Inclusion as Process” approach depended on and related to an “Ethics as Process” approach. ... -
THE HUMAN CATAPULT AND OTHER STORIES ? ADVENTURES WITH TECHNOLOGY IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
(University of Bari, 2013)This paper reports on-going research into how the affordances of off-the-shelf technologies can be aligned with relevant mathematics pedagogy, to create transformative learning experiences with the potential to overcome ... -
The importance of social competence for twenty-first century citizens: The use of mixed reality for social competence learning in mainstream education
(IGI Global., 2022)This chapter presents the results of a systematic review that investigated the use of mixed reality (MR) technology to assist social competence learning in mainstream education. Social competence represents our ability ... -
Intervention and prevention programmes on cyberbullying: A review
(Springer International, 2016)In this ever-changing society, the socio-developmental context that our children and young people encounter is monumentally different from the personal experience of childhood that we experienced. Whilst we can look back ... -
'It comes from you': Agency in adult migrants? language learning through process drama
(Routledge, 2019)In this paper, we present a study of adult asylum seekers learning Italian as a Second Language through Process Drama. Adopting an ecology of language approach, we first set the scene by examining some of the most salient ... -
Making the transition to post-secondary education: opportunities and challenges experienced by students with ASD in the Republic of Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)International and national policy initiatives have begun to focus on enabling people from traditionally marginalised groups to fully participate within society. In the Republic of Ireland there has been a concerted struggle ... -
Making the transition to post-secondary education: Opportunities and challenges experienced by students with ASD in the Republic of Ireland
(2017)Internationally there are increasing numbers of young people on the ASD spectrum attending higher education. Early transition planning is essential and students with ASD often require support to articulate their post-school ... -
Mapping an ethnography of change in teachers of Italian (L2) learning process drama
(2016)This paper discusses a longitudinal, participatory case study focused on a group of experienced teachers of Italian (L2), learning to integrate process drama pedagogy in their practice. Process drama is an embodied approach ... -
Mathematics, Technology Interventions and Pedagogy- Seeing the Wood From the Trees
(SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2013)This research explores recent technological interventions in mathematics education and examines to what extent these make use of the educational opportunities offered by the technology and appropriate pedagogical approaches ... -
The meaning (s) of practice: Puzzling through performative language practice with refugee learners.
(2020)This article features an investigation into the semantics of the term ‘practice’ coexisting in a multidisciplinary research context. The background of the discussion is a government-funded study with refugees and asylum ... -
Measuring Social and Psychological Outcomes from Activation Labour Market Programmes in Higher Education: A Pilot Study
(2018)Following the 2008 recession, Ireland experienced unemployment rates as high as 15% (McGuinness, O’Connell and Kelly, 2014). Policy responses have been through the introduction of upskilling and reskilling through activation ...