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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 ... -
Shifting Sands: Disability and Reasonable Accommodation in the Covid/Post Covid Higher Education Environment
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Ableism in Academia in Ireland: Experiences of Disabled Academics & Recommedations for the Future
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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 ... -
ALTITUDE The National Charter for Universal Design in Tertiary Education: Technical Report
(AHEAD Educational Press, 2024)Ireland’s education system is at a critical stage in its development towards inclusion. Greater diversity in the student population, national and international policy emphases on the right to an inclusive education for ... -
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 ... -
Usando el marco en educación dramática y teatral
(2022)In everyday life, experiences are ‘framed’ or presented from sociological, cultural, political, philosophical, communication, historical, or psychological perspectives, and this has become increasingly prevalent in our ... -
Creative Youth: Evaluation Guidelines
(Dept. of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, 2023)The Creative Ireland Programme was established in 2017 to support the mainstreaming of creativity in the life of the nation. The Programme works in partnership with local and national authorities, youth services, community, ... -
RISING Strong: Sustainability through Art, Science, and Collective Community Action
(2023)The objective of this research is to offer a qualitative analysis of adult STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics) learning in a community setting, with a focus on sustainability and climate ... -
Performing Yu?nf?n: An Exploration of Untranslatable Words in the Lacunae Project
(2024)In this paper, we discuss a collaborative research project called Lacunae: Embodying the Untranslatable. The issue of untranslatability has been a much-discussed topic in translation studies, with recent debate linking it ... -
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 ... -
A Prototype Bilingual Literacy Screening Test for Pupils in Gaelscoileanna and Gaeltacht Schools: Design Consideration and Teacher Attitudes
(2023)The present paper has two main aims. The first is to describe the prototype development of a bilingual literacy screening test for pupils in Gaelscoileanna and Gaeltacht schools. A description of the design process is ... -
Geabaire, the first Irish AAC system: voice as a vehicle for change
(2023)This paper introduces Geabaire, an Irish language Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) system which is currently under development in the Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin. This high-tech ... -
AAC don Ghaeilge: the Prototype Development of Speech-Generating Assistive Technology for Irish
(2022)This paper describes the prototype development of an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) system for the Irish language. This system allows users to communicate using the ABAIR synthetic voices, by selecting ...