Education (Theses and Dissertations)
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Inspiring Women - An Educational Design Research Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)The under-representation of girls in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education and careers is a deep-rooted problem. Gender differences in the participation of STEM education are visible as early as ... -
Exploring the impact of a parent-designed family literacy programme in a DEIS primary school on family literacy practices, home school-relationships and confidence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)This doctoral research is set in an urban DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) band 1 primary school (a school at risk of educational disadvantage) in Ireland and explores family literacy, home-school ... -
Implementing Computer-Mediated Communication Learning Activities for Adolescent Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language in Ireland: Task Design, Learning Process, Affordances and Constraints
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Drawing together the development of Chinese as a curricular language subject in Ireland and the most advances in technology enhanced language learning, this doctoral study took place during the Covid pandemic to investigate ... -
From Oral Storytelling to Critical Thinking: A Design-Based Research Pedagogical Intervention
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Critical thinking is at the forefront of learning and gaining increasing attention as a 21stcentury skill that helps students make well-informed decisions that positively impact their learning and life opportunities. In ... -
New Ways of Evaluating, New Ways of Being: STEAM Zines and Non-Formal Learning
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Places in which art and science come together have proven to be fertile grounds for imagination, creativity, and the prototyping of ideas where different forms of inquiry and exploration become possible. Choosing effective ... -
An Exploration of the Trinity Access Mentoring Programme and the Perceptions and Experiences of 6th-year Students in Five of its Post-Primary Link Schools.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)This research explored the effectiveness of the Trinity Access (TA) mentoring programme in supporting and/or informing the post-school aspirations and expectations of sixth-year students. It assessed the operational aspects ... -
"Kansas to Oz” – An exploration of post-primary teachers’ knowledge of transition from primary to post-primary in Ireland
This study focuses on the critical transition from primary to post-primary education from the perspective of post-primary in-service and pre-service teachers. The study aims to understand teachers’ knowledge and practices ... -
There Has to be More Than One Way - How the Learning Experience of People with Disabilities Can Inform Career Guidance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)This research explores Inclusion in the Career Guidance relationship and how Universal Design (UD)and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) might be applied to Career Guidance or Guidance Counselling. The research considers ... -
The lived experience of teachers working inclusively in the modern classroom, a systemic approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Inclusive education is well documented in the literature and in today’s educational settings, all schools are required to drafted inclusive policies. However, historically speaking, inclusive education referred only to ... -
The Utilization of Extended Reality to Facilitate Quality Education and Reduce Inequalities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Educational inequalities pose a significant global challenge, as they hinder sustainable development and perpetuate disparities in opportunities and outcomes for different populations. To address this dilemma and offer ... -
Losing the plot : a hermeneutic phenomenological study of the natue and meaning of psychological distress amongst third level students in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2016)Psychological distress, or mental health problems, constitute the leading form of disability worldwide (World Health Organisation, 2014). While much is known about the extent, or breadth, of the issue, less is known about ... -
Critical thinking in undergraduate general nursing students
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2015)This study investigated critical thinking in general nursing students registered in a four year undergraduate BSc. Honours degree course in nursing, at two university sites in Ireland. A main aim was to find out the critical ... -
Teacher Agency: Do teachers want to shake the tree? A study of teachers' responses to agency in the redeveloped curriculum
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)This dissertation reports the findings of a qualitative practitioner study into teacher agency among teachers of junior classes in one Irish primary school. Teachers engaged in an inquiry-based learning intervention and ... -
"Bee-Bot only speaks Irish." A sociocultural investigation of the use of programmable floor robots for second language learning and developing computational thinking skills in the early years of primary school.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)This thesis presents a sociocultural theory (SCT) investigation of the use of robotics for second language learning (SLL) and computational thinking (CT) skills development in the early years of primary school. The research ... -
Thinking, Feeling, Including. An Exploratory Study of Emotional Intelligence and Attitudes and Intentions Towards Inclusion Among a Sample of Irish Primary School Teachers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)This study explores emotional intelligence and attitudes and intentions towards inclusion among a sample of Irish primary school teachers. Research has suggested that teachers? attitudes (Boyle et al., 2020; Sharma & Sokal, ... -
Platformization of Academic Work in a COVID-19 Reality: Experiences of Foreign Language Faculty in Research-Intensive Universities in the United States
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)Despite research on how the coronavirus pandemic has changed work generally, a paucity of studies exists on the impact of the pandemic on academic work. One study suggests that remote, hybrid, and educational platform-mediated ... -
Roads less travelled: Narratives of Adult Male Former Prisoners in Education
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)This study explores the lived experience of adult male former prisoners in the context of prison education through a narrative research approach. The theoretical framework incorporates theories of transformation, recognition, ... -
Shaping transdisciplinary, challenge-based education using knowledge creating teams from five European universities: A realist evaluation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)There are increasing calls both within universities (Gibbons, Limoges, Nowotny, Schwartzman, Scott & Trow, 1994; Sterling, 2004; Stauffacher, Walter, Lang, Wiek & Scholz, 2006; Kueffer, Underwood, Hirsch Hadorn, Holderegger, ... -
Desire Lines in Open Space:: An Exploration of the TeachMeet Phenomenon
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)Desire Lines in Open Space :: An Exploration of the TeachMeet Phenomenon Margaret Mary Amond Abstract TeachMeet is a recent phenomenon in which informal gatherings are arranged by teachers in order to share and discuss ... -
Why Are You Here? A Case Study of Persistence in Higher Education.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)The Irish Higher Education system has undergone significant structural change in the past three years, culminating in the re-designation of the majority of the Institutes of Technology (IoTs) as Technological Universities ...