Education: Recent submissions
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Review of Learning Disability and Everyday Life by Alex Cockain
(2025)Learning Disability and Everyday Life offers an account of Alex Cockain’s life with his brother Paul. Paul is a middle-aged man who has labels of autism and learning disability. The account is ethnographic in texture, ... -
"'In what orbit we shall find ourselves, no one could predict": institutional reform, the university merger and ecclesiastical influence on Irish higher education in the 1960s'
(2017)This paper explores the persistence of ecclesiastical influence on higher education in Ireland during an era of far-reaching policy change in the 1960s. The extensive interaction between political and official elites and ... -
Reframing, Reacting, or Responding? The Climate Emergency and Higher Education in Ireland
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025)This chapter sets out the nature of Ireland’s policy response to the climate emergency as it relates to higher education, across various policy realms (national, sectoral, and institutional), and questions what these amount ... -
Cultural Histories of Disability
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)The study of cultural histories of disability examines the past to gain insights into the present. This entry uses the specific example of learning disability to illustrate the contribution cultural histories can make ... -
Third/Additional Language Learning Strategies in a Globalised World: Learning the Chinese language in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2025)This thesis investigates the language learning strategies (LLS) employed by multilingual learners in Ireland studying Chinese as a third or additional language (L3/AL). Given the growing global importance of Chinese and ... -
Emotionally entwined narratives: a polyphonic trialogue on learning disability history research
(2025)This paper offers a critical analysis of the concept of “emotional community” in the context of our research into histories of learning disability Emotional communities are places where people feel, express and make sense ... -
Science and Society in Ireland: Examining Public Trust in Scientists against a Global Background
(2025)Public trust in scientists is vital for navigating complex global challenges, influencing evidence-informed policy, and promoting societal well-being. However, concerns exist about a potential crisis of trust in science, ... -
LEVERS Learning Framework
(Trinity College Dublin, 2023)The LEVERS project (2023-2026) promotes open schooling for innovative science education, with a specific focus on lifelong learning for climate and environmental justice. The project investigates the potential of localised ... -
An Ghaeilge in �irinn
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Perspectives on the Irish Language in Education in the Early- to Mid-Twentieth Century
(2024)Many Minority language revitalization movements globally strive for the status the Irish language today enjoys in formal education: as a core subject in mainstream primary and post-primary schools, as a medium of instruction ... -
Standardised Testing among Children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) in Ireland: Normative and exclusionary practices.
(2024)Standardised testing has become an increasingly prominent feature in education policy. In Ireland, standardised tests in literacy and numeracy are compulsory for all pupils, with few exceptions, in second, fourth and ... -
Dyslexics "knowing how" to challenge Lexism
(Routledge, 2017)In this chapter we argue that historic conceptual confusion between ‘knowing how’ and ‘knowing that’ (Ryle, 1949) has helped construct dyslexia as a literacy difficulty. Normative literacy practices, which we call Lexism, ... -
A Cultural History of Learning Difficulties in the Modern Age
(2020)My thesis in this chapter is threefold. Firstly, I contend that “learning difficulties” as we now understand them are phenomena created by certain contingent discursive formations. That is to say, they are not natural, ... -
Including Learners from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds
(Routledge, 2016)Imagine fluently speaking two languages, but not English, and having two degrees from Cairo University, and then having to retrain in a new language – English. This is the example of a teacher from Egypt, a Coptic Christian, ... -
Avoiding New Literacies
(Routledge, 2015)Common consequences of a student acquiring the label dyslexic are that the student is selected for some sort of remedial education programme, which takes place away from the mainstream class and curriculum, and that the ... -
The Metanarrative of Learning Disability
(Routledge, 2021)Over the last two centuries, learning disability has become an organising concept: a concept which has radically transformed our sense of what it means to be - or not be - a person. In this chapter, we employ a historiographic ... -
The Foundation of the Preparatory Colleges and their Ideological Mission in the Irish Free State
(Peter Lang, 2024)The Department of Education of the newly independent Irish Free State asserted in 1928 that the official initiative for the creation of preparatory colleges was designed to offer ‘…a sound secondary education on Irish ... -
Challenging dyslexia
(Routledge., 2016)Dyslexia remains a troublesome concept. Despite reportedly affecting around one person in ten, and therefore just about every classroom, it continues to elude satisfactory definition. Neuroscientists, theorists and other ... -
Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset
(2025)Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist ... -
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
(2025)Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic ...
