Education: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Bilingual (Irish-English) phonemic awareness: language-specific and universal contributions
(2024)This paper examines the construct of bilingual phonemic awareness in Irish-English bilinguals. Though traditionally viewed as a skill or ability which transfers across languages, recent accounts have considered whether ... -
Inclusive Education in Bilingual and Plurilingual Programs
(2024)This chapter examines the inclusion of students with Additional Educational Needs (AEN) in language education opportunities for in English-medium, Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools in Ireland. The commitment to inclusive ... -
The Utilization of Extended Reality to Facilitate Quality Education and Reduce Inequalities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Educational inequalities pose a significant global challenge, as they hinder sustainable development and perpetuate disparities in opportunities and outcomes for different populations. To address this dilemma and offer ... -
Bridging citizen science and science communication: insights from a global study of science communicators
(2023)A large study of science communicators around the world was conducted as part of the GlobalSCAPE research project. All participants in the study indicated some level of science communication experience, with more than ... -
Science communication in higher education: global perspectives on the teaching of science communication
(2023)This special issue focuses on the global landscape of teaching science communication in higher education. Following an open call, we selected seven papers with topics including the geographical distribution of ... -
Losing the plot : a hermeneutic phenomenological study of the natue and meaning of psychological distress amongst third level students in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2016)Psychological distress, or mental health problems, constitute the leading form of disability worldwide (World Health Organisation, 2014). While much is known about the extent, or breadth, of the issue, less is known about ... -
Critical thinking in undergraduate general nursing students
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2015)This study investigated critical thinking in general nursing students registered in a four year undergraduate BSc. Honours degree course in nursing, at two university sites in Ireland. A main aim was to find out the critical ... -
Teacher Agency: Do teachers want to shake the tree? A study of teachers' responses to agency in the redeveloped curriculum
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)This dissertation reports the findings of a qualitative practitioner study into teacher agency among teachers of junior classes in one Irish primary school. Teachers engaged in an inquiry-based learning intervention and ... -
"Bee-Bot only speaks Irish." A sociocultural investigation of the use of programmable floor robots for second language learning and developing computational thinking skills in the early years of primary school.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)This thesis presents a sociocultural theory (SCT) investigation of the use of robotics for second language learning (SLL) and computational thinking (CT) skills development in the early years of primary school. The research ... -
Arts Alive: A literature review to support curriculum specification development for the area of Arts Education
(National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, 2023)This review is drawn from extensive and systematic reviews of the literature in Arts Education; as art form, as discrete subject and as arts pedagogy. The review constitutes a narrative enquiry and as such it is ... -
Who am I? Who can tell me who I am? The Importance of the Social and Political in Children¿s and Young People¿s Drama
(Custodian, 2023)‘Who Am I? Who can tell me who I am?’ is an international panoramic of voices, all of whom are speaking from within their praxis contexts, that is the social and the political in the personal when working with children ... -
Thinking, Feeling, Including. An Exploratory Study of Emotional Intelligence and Attitudes and Intentions Towards Inclusion Among a Sample of Irish Primary School Teachers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)This study explores emotional intelligence and attitudes and intentions towards inclusion among a sample of Irish primary school teachers. Research has suggested that teachers? attitudes (Boyle et al., 2020; Sharma & Sokal, ... -
Children's Research Digest: Children's Outdoor Play
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Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education: Theory, Research, and Practice
(Springer, 2023)Digital writing, in simple terms, is writing using a digital environment or tool. As with literacy more broadly, for many of us digital environments and tools are increas- ingly prevalent in our writing endeavors. And ... -
Social and Environmental Education: A Review of Research and Scholarship in Geography, History and Education about Religions and Beliefs in the Context of the Redeveloped Irish Primary School Curriculum
(National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, 2023)It is evident that the subjects of SEE provide opportunities for children to be active and agentic in their learning, with a sense of responsibility to participate in the world. SEE creates spaces for children to be ... -
Sorgente Research Report: The Irish Case Studies
(Trinity College Dublin, 2023)This report reflects on two case studies conducted within a community-based research and arts engagement programme, Sorgente: Engaging asylum seekers, refugees and their teachers in performative language pedagogy. This ...
