Department of Learning, Society and Religious Education: Recent submissions
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Exploring the spiritual dimension of the school curriculum (Pre-published version)
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Religious education an ideal conduit for child spirituality
(The Irish Times, 2010) -
Intercultural education, picturebooks and refugees: approaches for language teachers
(CLELEjournal, 2014)Picturebooks can be used as a means of teaching a range of intercultural issues as well as enriching learners’ linguistic and literacy skills. As windows and mirrors, picturebooks can be a powerful vehicle in the classroom ... -
Home-school-community liaison scheme: final evaluation report
(Educational Research Centre (St. Patrick's College, Dublin), 1994) -
Classroom teaching and formation: developing educational partnership
(Peter Lang, 2012) -
Developing reciprocal support among families, communities and schools: the Irish experience
(Jessica Kingsley, 2000) -
The home-school-community liaison (HSCL) scheme: summary evaluation report
(Educational Research Centre (St. Patrick's College, Dublin), 1995) -
Human rights education: reflections on theory and practice
(Centre for Global Education, 2012) -
Public housing in Limerick City: a profile of tenants and estates
(Limerick City Council, 2005)Income poverty is both pervasive and profound among LCC tenant households. Certain groups and areas show a particularly high risk of poverty. Spatial concentration of the poor is exacerbated by estate-specific problems. ... -
Educational disadvantage in Limerick: the socio-economic and spatial context
(Mary Immaculate College, 2007)Relationship between educational and social disadvantage particularly strong in Limerick urban area. As well as economic restructuring, this may be due to the spatial concentration of social disadvantage, and the depth of ... -
Evaluation of the Doodle Families Literacy Programme Pilot, Dublin: Childhood Development Initiative
(Childhood Development Initiative, Dublin., 2016)The Doodle Families Literacy Programme was a pilot programme that was delivered in three DEIS Band 1 primary schools in Limerick during the period of April to June 2015 for First Class children and their parents. Doodle ... -
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering Summary Report
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)The services provided by the BRFP embrace an ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner 1979) in that they see each person, not as an isolated individual but as a member of a family and of the wider community. Consequently, ... -
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)The BRFP staff includes one full-time Project Leader, and four additional fulltime staff comprising a Social Worker, Information Officer/Hospitality Centre Leader, Family Links Social Worker and Traveller Support Worker. ... -
The challenges that face the primary school teacher in coping with grief and loss in a multicultural setting
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)Death is a fact of life. The primary school teacher is often at the forefront of the child’s life and therefore has to be able to help a child who has suffered a bereavement to cope with this loss. During my teaching ... -
An ethnography exploring how hegemony and power mediate agency and structure among a group of 6th year Irish girls in a middle-class Post-Primary school
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This is an ethnographic study of a culture-sharing group of 6th year girls. Facing the high stakes Leaving Certificate examinations while on the cusp of adulthood, this study contributes to the agency-structure debate from ... -
Childhood interrupted: a story of loss, separation, and reconciliation (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2016)This essay presents a story of personal loss and childhood trauma experienced by the author in 1968. Written in autoethnographic form, the author narrates a particular time in his life when he lost his hearing and subsequently ... -
“Passing as Normal”: Living and Coping With the Stigma of Deafness (Pre-published version)
(Sage, 2016)This autoethnography presents a narrative account of the author’s experience of living and coping with the stigma of deafness. First, the autoethnographic stories explore the author’s experience of face-to-face encounters ... -
A tale of two schools: educating Catholic female deaf children in Ireland, 1846–1946 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2015)This paper discusses the contributions of the Dominican Sisters and Sisters of Mercy in running schools for female deaf children in Ireland during the period 1846 to 1946. The schools were established as part of an attempt ... -
'Behind the teacher’s back': an ethnographic study of deaf people’s schooling experiences in the Republic of Ireland (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2014)Historically, the valuing of deaf children’s voices on their own schooling has been underrepresented in educational policies, curriculum frameworks and discursive practices and, in particular, in the debates and controversies ...