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An IoT and Wearable Technology Hackathon for Promoting Careers in Computer Science
(2017)This paper explores the use of a constructivist 21st-century learning model to implement a week-long workshop, delivered as a “hackathon,” to encourage preuniversity teenagers to pursue careers in STEM, with a particular ... -
'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 ... -
The landscape of European science communication
(2021)European science communication project QUEST surveyed and reviewed different aspects of European science communication, including science journalism, teaching and training in science communication, social media activity, ... -
Language ideologies in a minority context: An experimental study of teachers? responses to variation in Irish
(2022)Ideologies on linguistic variation among teachers of the Irish language are the focus of this article. Participants completed an experiment in which they responded to speech samples representing traditional dialectal ... -
Large-scale, design-based research facilitating iterative change in Irish schools - the Trinity Access Approach
(2022)Trinity Access (TA) is a post-primary initiative, in the authors’ university, that offers programmes for students, teachers and schools in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. The aims of the programme include helping ... -
Learning in Citizen Science
(Springer Nature, 2021)Citizen science is a promising field for educational practices and research. However, it is also highly heterogeneous, and learning happens in diverse ways, according to project tasks and participants’ activities. Therefore, ... -
'Learning the "encynicals"': the Catholic Workers' College Dublin 1951-1965
(2011)The Catholic Workers? College founded in 1951 by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Dublin remains an interesting case of Irish adult and trades union education as the College, society and education changed between the 1950s ... -
Lest we forget: Lessons learned in Ireland following Budget 2012.
(2013)School-based Guidance and Counselling provision suffered significantly in the austerity measures announced as part of the Irish national Budget for 2012. Through an exploration of the rapid changes visited on the profession ... -
Long-term impact of early maternal loss on females.
(2002)Loss is a universal experience. While it remains a uniquely personal experience, bereavement is often central to psychological distress in the lives of many people. The present article presents a review of the theory ...