Education (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Finding Volunesia: An Exploration of How Volunteer Identity and Volunteer Learning Through the Life Course Transforms Participants and Develops Enduring Leaders.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)Ireland has a rich history in volunteering. A culture of neighbor helping neighbor, and giving one's time, energy and commitment to others outside of one?s immediate family. The purpose of the research is to examine life ... -
Learning vocabulary in the authentic written form for novice English-speaking learners of Japanese with limited orthographic knowledge
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2012)It is conventionally assumed that complicated Japanese orthography is too difficult to learn for learners from non-logographic language backgrounds at the early stages of learning. However, this sort of assumption may have ... -
The policy implementation process in the upper secondary education system (senior cycle) and videregaende skolen in science and mathematics in the Republic of Ireland and the Kingdom of Norway from 1960 - 2005
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2009)The substantive issue at the heart of this thesis is identifying the key changes in science and mathematics mandated by the state, in upper secondary academic education, and seeing the extent to which these are translated ... -
Authoring our culture : using narrative to explore the student-learner's understanding of self within the educative relationship
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2012)This study was interested in looking into the life and experience of ordinary teenaged secondary students and set out to discover their themes of self and the place of these themes within the educative relationship. This ... -
A longitudinal study of portfolio use to assess the competence of undergraduate student nurses
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2012)With the advent of the new BSc programmes, An Bord Altranais, the regulatory body for professional nursing would no longer host what was known as the 'state final examinations'. Until this time, decisions on whether or not ... -
Stalking science : a microlinguistic analysis of an Irish classroom
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2011)This research project sought to investigate the language of school science from a linguistic perspective. Research into classroom discourse in Ireland is quite sparse, and it was hoped this research could contribute to ... -
Leaders or jugglers? the principal dilemma : Irish second-level principals' narratives, identifying selected factors that encourage/limit their acting ethically
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2012)School principals play a significant role in the effective running of schools. They are confronted by countless demands, expectations and challenges while trying to maintain balance in their decision-making about contradictory, ... -
Disciplinary practices and their effects on students attending secondary public schools in Cyprus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2012)A growing body of literature indicates that the traditional disciplinary practices, such as suspension and expulsion, which are being widely used by the majority of schools around the world, are not only ineffective in ... -
A Sound Beginning for Reading: The impact of a phonological awareness programme on junior infant children attending a DEIS urban Band 1 school
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2019)Phonemic awareness -"the conscious awareness that spoken words are made up of individual speech sounds?" (Walsh, 2009)- is an important prerequisite for later reading proficiency, as it acts as a bridge between spoken ... -
Coteaching music in a primary school: teacher perspectives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2019)Within the parameters of this research study, an in-service - preservice teacher partnership, which was developed from the work of Murphy & Beggs (2005), was employed to explore teacher perspectives on coteaching music. ... -
Heurism in science teaching in Irish schools, 1878-1924
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2003)Introduction: The period 1878 to 1924 encompassed by this thesis was one in which profound educational changes which began with the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act and ended in 1924 with the establishment of the present ... -
Religious pluralism and education in postreformation Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2000)This dissertation examines the phenomenon of multiculturalism and investigates how religious pluralism can help to bring about a greater understanding of the problems on the island of Ireland. It is argued that religious ... -
The Board of Management : a study of operational effectiveness of the Boards of Management as vehicles for the participation of trustees, teachers, and parents in a sample of voluntary secondary and community schools in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2000)Boards of management are part of an approach aimed at democratismg local school management through the involvement of parents and teachers with the school trustees in the local educational decision-making process. Board ... -
The preparatory colleges 1926-1961 : an experiment in Irish education
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2000)This dissertation examines recruitment to primary teaching through the preparatory system during the period: 1926-1961. The system consisted of seven residential second-level schools, mainly situated in the Gaeltacht, three ... -
Adult learner responses to semi-autonomy in intensive ELT : a systematic replication case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2000)The emerging field of classroom learner autonomy is defined by interest in complementing or replacing institutional group tuition, or 'other-directed learning' (ODL), with 'self-directed learning' (SDL). The enquiry addresses ... -
An investigation into chaplaincy in Irish Catholic voluntary secondary schools
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2000)This qualitative study investigates chaplaincy in voluntary Catholic secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland. It is an exploratory study in which focus groups, interviews and a questionnaire were used to elicit the ... -
Education as a preparation for work : an investigation of an episode of mathematics curriculum development in Ireland based upon the participant objectivation methodology of Pierre Bourdieu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2000)This work examines a specific curriculum development initiative - the mathematics element of the Leaving Certificate Applied programme introduced in the Republic of Ireland in 1995. Chapter One shows that the methodology ... -
School development planning : a pathway to school improvement
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2000)The concept of school development planning is currently a significant policy issue in primary education. The White Paper Charting Our Education Future envisages that school development plans will form an important basis ... -
An Examination of the Impact of Mobile Technology on Quality of Education in a Large Public School in Mozambique
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2019)This study was carried out in parallel with a wider study on the impact of the introduction of a mobile technology project, IADT s School in a Box, on the quality of education in a large public school in Mozambique. The ... -
Reasonable accommodation for students with disabilities/learning disabilities: perspectives of university faculty, staff and students
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2019)In recent years, in Saudi Arabia, students with disabilities (SWDs) including students with a learning disability (SLD) have been enroling in post-secondary education in growing numbers. The growth of this population within ...
