Browsing by Subject "Attitudes"
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Accent Anxiety: An Exploration of Non-Native Accent as a Source of Speaking Anxiety among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Students
(2022)Speaking anxiety is a form of foreign language anxiety which may reduce students’ willingness to communicate orally. Despite accent being one of the most salient aspects of speech, there has been little research to date ... -
Bullying and character development: An examination of character strengths associated with bullying and cyberbullying in post-primary schools in Ireland
(2022)A substantive body of research demonstrates negative bias towards reporting characteristics of young people associated with bullying and cyberbullying in schools, as both victims and perpetrators. The current study proposes ... -
Challenges faced by student nurses and midwives in clinical learning environment ??? A systematic review and meta-synthesis
(2021)Objectives: This systematic review aimed to offer insight and understanding, through synthesis of findings from studies that report on perspectives of student nurses/midwives, clinical instructors, clinical nurses/midwives ... -
Digital technology and privacy attitudes in times of COVID-19: formal legality versus legal reality in Ireland
(2022)The adoption of digital technologies to counteract the spread of COVID-19 has resulted in a major exposure of our rights to privacy and data protection. An empirical study conducted in Ireland by the Science Foundation ... -
Enhancing teacher education for inclusion
(2020)As the demographic profiles of many education systems continue to change, the challenges facing the teaching workforce and how teachers are prepared to address different aspects of diversity are leading many European ... -
Examining public acceptance of autonomous mobility
(2020)Over the last decade, the technology adopted for the automation of transportation has advanced at a pace that now the emergence of Autonomous Vehicles (AV’s) might not be as far away as it was thought a few years ago. ... -
Finding justice in wild, novel ecosystems: a review through a multispecies lens
(2023)Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities has grown in scale and magnitude in recent times but is still considered to be the main challenge for transitioning our cities and their communities to be more climate resilient ... -
Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in the Republic of Ireland - A National Response
(Inclusive National Higher Education Forum, 2019)Given the context that people with intellectual disabilities face significant barriers and limited postsecondary opportunities, a number of initiatives in Ireland and internationally have been established with the aim of ... -
Hospital-associated deconditioning: not only physical, but also cognitive
(2022)Introduction Hospital-associated deconditioning (HAD) or post-hospital syndrome is well recognized as reduced functional performance after an acute hospitalization. Recommendations for the management of HAD are still ... -
How to adopt an "inclusion as process" approach and navigate ethical challenges in research.
(Sage Publishers., 2022)This case study explores how Mary Quirke aimed to engage in Inclusionary Research for her doctoral research project and how her “Inclusion as Process” approach depended on and related to an “Ethics as Process” approach. ... -
The Impact of Self Help Groups on the Psychosocial Well-Being of Female Members in Ethiopia
(2021)Tearfund self-help groups are a variety of self-help group (SHG) aimed at poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite a number of positive evaluations of SHGs, there have been no direct studies of impact on psychosocial ... -
Inclusione, una comprensione profonda. Gli atteggiamenti inclusivi degli insegnanti tra valori e pratica
(2016)The effort to foster inclusive education in schools as a community endeavour, which involves the growth of connections based on the valuing of diversity, contrasts sharply with the current tendency to assess ... -
Investigating the Attitudes of Teachers to Science Education in the Irish Primary Classroom
(STER, 2019-04)This article aims to provide an insight into current attitudes to science education, which has been correlated from a larger research study conducted by the author. It will compare attitudes recorded in past studies to ...