Browsing Education (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Education after Wittgenstein: A Causal-Cultural Theory of Reference and Meaning and its Implications for Education
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)Educational theory frequently does not appear to have satisfactory cognitive and linguistic foundations. It is frequently reliant on empirical or ethnographic findings but without a connection to the underlying cognitive ... -
Education as a preparation for work : an investigation of an episode of mathematics curriculum development in Ireland based upon the participant objectivation methodology of Pierre Bourdieu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2000)This work examines a specific curriculum development initiative - the mathematics element of the Leaving Certificate Applied programme introduced in the Republic of Ireland in 1995. Chapter One shows that the methodology ... -
Educational provision for children with mild general learning disabilities in national schools and special schools in the Republic of Ireland 1989-2004
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Enhancing the teaching and learning of mathematics in the Senior Cycle
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2006)This thesis aserts that the current provision of mathematics education at Senior Cycle suffers from a number of shortcomings. These are described as a failure to show the relevance of the material being taught and an almost ... -
An Examination of the Impact of Mobile Technology on Quality of Education in a Large Public School in Mozambique
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2019)This study was carried out in parallel with a wider study on the impact of the introduction of a mobile technology project, IADT s School in a Box, on the quality of education in a large public school in Mozambique. The ... -
Examining a Virtual Learning Environment: Utilisation factors and impact on post-primary national school teachers in Malaysia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2021)Since 2012 teaching and learning in all national schools in Malaysia are supplemented with a cloud-based virtual learning environment (VLE). This study was instigated by the fact that despite many programmes associated ... -
Examining special education teacher learning in mathematics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2017)The purpose of this research study was to understand the factors, individual and contextual, influencing special education teachers acquisition of knowledge and skills for teaching mathematics to pupils with Special ... -
Examining the Generalisability of `Social Drama' for Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Natural Environments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are becoming more prevalent in Ireland, with literature positing that a common challenge for those with ASD is generalising social skills from intervention settings to natural environments. ... -
Expectations you encounter : the educational experiences and transition choices / opportunities of blind / vision impaired people in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2013)This study was concerned with exploring the educational experiences and transition choices/opportunities of blind/vision impaired people in the Republic of Ireland. Until relatively recently the educational provision for ... -
Expert Perspectives & Methodological Excerpts: A Creative Semi-Fictionalised Epistolary Describing A Student Voice Led Study Of Irish Teens' Engagement With Earth Science & Climate Change
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)Today’s teens have seen the writing on the wall, as oceans rise and global superpowers fall. Schoolchildren take to the streets and make crucial pleas, challenging the powers that be. Meanwhile, in Ireland, Junior Cycle ... -
An Exploration into the Psychology of Education: The Use of an Ecological Framework to Address Macro and Microsystemic Factors that Influence Individuals Working within Irish Education
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2017)This Ph.D. project is considered a two-part piece. The first aspect is methodological and theoretical, concerning the design of an ecological and context-driven grounded theory framework. The second aspect is a cross-sectional ... -
An exploration of female adolescent experiences of abortion and miscarriage from an adult retrospective bio-psycho-social perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)The current research presents an exploratory bioecological understanding of female experiences of miscarriage or abortion during secondary school-ages. A systematic review revealed that the topic area is empirically sparse, ... -
An Exploration of Students’ Experiences in one DEIS second level school
Existing qualitative studies on DEIS and the lived experiences of students in DEIS schools are limited, particularly at second level. There has not been much analysis of the ways in which the affective elements of education, ... -
An exploration of the state and status of nature awareness, appreciation and education in the Irish primary school system
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2019)Abstract This research explores the state and status of nature awareness, appreciation and education in the Irish primary system. The research was undertaken because personal observation, anecdotal evidence, media reports ... -
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 ... -
Exploring contemporary higher education and academic work in Ireland : the impact of policy on practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2010)The drive for the so called ‘knowledge economy’ and the expected competitive advantage envisioned, has led to 'power elites' and vested interests applying pressure on nation states to develop and implement policies that ... -
Exploring Home-School Partnership through Epstein's Framework: A comparative study of two post primary schools.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)Historically the role of parents in the Irish education system has not been part of a planned programme of partnership but the result of unlinked government policies and initiatives which involved parents in school life. ... -
Exploring teachers' conceptions and implementation of differentiated reading in primary and elementary schools
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2018)Reading is an essential life skill and an important component of learning. Effective teachers encourage and sustain children?s desire to read, restructuring teaching and learning activities to meet pupil variance towards ... -
Exploring the causes of attrition among further education students in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2018)The study seeks to develop a critical understanding of the causes of attrition among Further Education (FE) students in Ireland. The causes of non-persistence, which are outside of the control of FE Colleges and the ...