Education (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Networked in or networked out? Learners' experiences of completing a PhD on a part-time basis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)Doctoral education policy and practice in Europe tends to recognise candidature in terms of the full-time PhD researcher. Part-time doctoral candidates have been described as invisible in policy (Neumann and Rodwell, 2009) ... -
A Study of Teacher Engagement with Junior Cycle: Have You Asked the Teacher?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)he Irish education system has been undergoing significant reform since the introduction of the Framework for Junior Cycle 2015. The programme of reforms was begun in the lower second level serving 12 to 15-year-olds. The ... -
A Case Study Analysis of Irish Primary Schools Principals:Perspectives of and Experiences in Their Role
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)Summary Research consistently concludes that school leadership impacts both directly and indirectly on a myriad of school factors (Grisson et al., 2021; Leithwood et al., 2020; Day et al., 2016; Harris and Jones, 2020). ... -
An Investigation into the leading factors that affect teachers' decision-making towards curricula change in Irish post-primary schools
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)In recent years there has been an international resurgence in curriculum change. Intercontinental influences such as globalisation and international testing have resulted in a transformation of traditional educational ... -
Examining the Generalisability of `Social Drama' for Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Natural Environments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are becoming more prevalent in Ireland, with literature positing that a common challenge for those with ASD is generalising social skills from intervention settings to natural environments. ... -
A Comparative Study of Leaving Certificate Chemistry in Ireland and Advanced Placement Chemistry in the United States
This research aims to compare the senior second level programmes in Ireland and the United States, so that recommendations can be made to establish best practice for international chemical education. To do this, the ... -
Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care: Gender, Class, and Women who Care(s)?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2021)The Irish Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector has undergone considerable change in the last decade, including introducing various leadership roles for the ECEC practitioner. Conversely, it is difficult to ... -
What alternatives can BRICS countries offer to the world of global higher education? A thematic policy analysis of the WCU policies of BRICS nations through the lens of multiple modernities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2021)The formation of higher education policy in BRICS nations, particularly in recent decades, has been increasingly affected by the advent of global educational trends, particularly those which have been laid down by the ... -
Science and Gender Relations: The Development of Science Identity of Female Students and Early Career Researchers in Physics and Physical Sciences in Higher Education
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2021)This thesis investigates women s science identity development in physics and the physical sciences in higher education through a gender perspective. It arises from the real-life sociological issue of women s lower level ... -
To examine the professional development of pre-service modern language teachers from a consecutive program of study in terms of both knowledge and identity underpinned conceptually by the Threshold Concepts Framework (TCF)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2021)This study tracks the professional development (PD) of two cohorts of student language teachers (ST) in Initial Teacher Education in both their learning and school placement throughout a year of their studies in terms of ... -
The Social Engagement Experiences of Disabled Students in Higher Education in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2021)Title: The Social Engagement Experiences of Disabled Students in Higher Education in Ireland. Vivian Rath Ph.D. School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. The aim of this research was to examine the social engagement ... -
Examining a Virtual Learning Environment: Utilisation factors and impact on post-primary national school teachers in Malaysia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2021)Since 2012 teaching and learning in all national schools in Malaysia are supplemented with a cloud-based virtual learning environment (VLE). This study was instigated by the fact that despite many programmes associated ... -
A case study of 21st century learning in an Irish context: An exploration of the utilisation of mobile devices and how they contribute to the realisation of the aims of the new Junior Cycle framework
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2021)The 20th century has provided a number of significant technologies that have transformed education, with the introduction of the overhead projector, Schools TV, the whiteboard, personal computers, video projectors and ... -
Expert Perspectives & Methodological Excerpts: A Creative Semi-Fictionalised Epistolary Describing A Student Voice Led Study Of Irish Teens' Engagement With Earth Science & Climate Change
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)Today’s teens have seen the writing on the wall, as oceans rise and global superpowers fall. Schoolchildren take to the streets and make crucial pleas, challenging the powers that be. Meanwhile, in Ireland, Junior Cycle ... -
Socialisation, Role theory, and Infrapolitics: Officers of the Irish Defence Forces and Civilian Higher Education since the 1960s
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)The military profession has a long history, and its institutions of education have been central to the development of military officers. Questions about the higher education of officers became increasingly important in the ... -
Flipped-mastery learning through the use of 'student action cycles' in a mixed-ability secondary level Irish science classroom
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)The following document explores the use of student action cycles (SACs), a reflexive, student-driven approach to flipped-mastery learning, with a focus on developing deep understanding rather than on learning to pass ... -
Leaving is not Losing: Influences on and Impacts of Career Decision Self-Efficacy in a Selection of Third Level Students in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)College withdrawals are a widespread problem and Ireland is no exception. The associated challenges for the third level education provider, the family of the withdrawing student, and above all, the student him/herself, ... -
Unlearning: Education, Literature, Event
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)This thesis is an extended investigation into the concept of unlearning and how it can be used to further critical thinking in the philosophy of education and literary studies. The thesis argues, in the context of the ... -
Mainstream and Margins: An exploration of the policy, practice and perspectives that have shapred part-time flexible learning in Irish Higher Education 2012-18
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2020)Part-time flexible learning in Irish higher education has not been embedded within mainstream policy and was of marginal interest to policy makers and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs’). This subject also received ... -
Education after Wittgenstein: A Causal-Cultural Theory of Reference and Meaning and its Implications for Education
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)Educational theory frequently does not appear to have satisfactory cognitive and linguistic foundations. It is frequently reliant on empirical or ethnographic findings but without a connection to the underlying cognitive ...
