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Irish Educational Studies, 2022
La Pedagogía Social en un entorno VICA: ¿viejos problemas, nuevas perspectivas? : Comunicaciones y Conclusiones : Congreso Internacional SIPS 2019/ XXXII Seminario Interuniversitario de Pedagogía Social, 2019, ISBN 978-84-947978-7-3, págs. 99-102, 2019
Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 2017
This article proposes the value of using human rights as a foundation for exploring development i... more This article proposes the value of using human rights as a foundation for exploring development issues in the classroom. The article draws on research exploring children's engagement with issues of global justice. The research was conducted with seven to nine year olds in three school settings in the Dublin area. The research explored children's responses to photographs set in different global contexts and to the concepts of money, fairness, decision making and the environment. The findings highlight a tendency amongst the participant children to characterise poverty as extreme deprivation, to marry their understandings of poverty and of developing countries so that one is synonymous with the other and to perceive the relationship between Ireland and developing countries principally in charitable terms. The findings further indicate that, for some children, there was an expectation that people living in developing countries should show gratitude where they have basic facilit...
Development Education in Policy and Practice, 2014
Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina... more Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
Historical Encounters: A journal of historical consciousness, historical cultures, and history education
While there has been a wave of interest in epistemology as a field of study, there have been few ... more While there has been a wave of interest in epistemology as a field of study, there have been few studies focused on primary-aged children and even fewer on their epistemic beliefs about history. Due to the lack of research with younger age groups, much of the explanatory power of the prevailing frameworks in epistemic research has been extrapolated from research conducted with older populations. To address this concern, this paper reports on a series of semi-structured interviews designed to identify primary children’s beliefs about the nature of history and historical knowledge. Thematic analysis of the data provided a rich and textured insight into their understanding of the nature of history and historical knowledge and it was found that these beliefs appear to have their origins in both the children’s experiences of history and their common sense (or domain-general) ideas of how the world works. This analysis also highlighted a number of “epistemic bottlenecks” (beliefs about th...
Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 2014
Policy and Practice; a Development Education Review, 2014
Teaching for Social Justice and Sustainable Development Across the Primary Curriculum, 2021
Development Education in Policy and Practice
Irish Educational Studies, 2006
... Premised on a social constructivist view of children and childhood, the research drew on part... more ... Premised on a social constructivist view of children and childhood, the research drew on participative and democratic ... While the study suggests the existence of an essentialist conception of Irish identity, it also demonstrates the capacity and willingness of children to engage in ...
Irish Educational Studies, 2003
History is like yesterday and the day before that and the day before that etc. It's things th... more History is like yesterday and the day before that and the day before that etc. It's things that happened a long time ago and maybe things that happened yesterday. There is famous history and there is family history and maybe myth and legends are history like the Children of Lir or Setanta. There are lots of different types of history. Even wars are history. There are even stories about love and sorrow in history like Deirdre of the Sorrows. A lot of things have happened in history.
Irish Educational Studies, 2007
Research into student teachers' perceptions, attitudes and prior experiences of learning suggests... more Research into student teachers' perceptions, attitudes and prior experiences of learning suggests that these experiences can exert an influence on practice which can be relatively undisturbed by their initial teacher education. This article is based on the initial findings of an all-Ireland survey of all first-year students on B.Ed. courses in colleges in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland. The survey is the first stage in a longitudinal study which will follow the same cohort of students for the duration of their initial teacher education, seeking to map and track the development of their ideas about teaching and learning in primary history, geography and science. Based on an analysis of the quantitative data in the entry questionnaire, the initial findings suggest that subject knowledge remains a problematic issue in initial teacher education and that both location and gender interact with knowledge, attitudes and subject area to produce a complex and challenging context for teacher educators in history, geography and science education.
ii iii Acknowledgements This research report would not have been possible without the support and... more ii iii Acknowledgements This research report would not have been possible without the support and co-operation of a large number of institutions and individuals. We would like to extend our special thanks to SCoTENS, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick for the extremely generous financial funding they provided over the duration of this project. We are particularly grateful for this support. We would also like to thank the colleges who participated in the study: St. Mary’s University
Public history weekly, 2021
Policy and Practice; a Development Education Review, 2012
Introduction - Mary Ann Lyons and Fionnuala Waldron 1. The Philosophy and Politics of Equality of... more Introduction - Mary Ann Lyons and Fionnuala Waldron 1. The Philosophy and Politics of Equality of Condition - John Baker 2. Multiethnicity and the Idea of Europe - Ash Amin 3. The Challenge of Diversity for Education in Northern Ireland - Alan Smith 4. Equality, Dependency and Disability - Eva Feder Kittay 5. Equality and Education: A Framework for Theory and Action - Kathleen Lynch 6. Give Tongue Its Freedom: Children as Citizens of Irish Civic Society - Mary Shine Thompson 7. Reflections on the Challenges of Inclusive Education: A Response to Eva Feder Kittay's Argument for Equal Dignity - Joseph Travers 8. The Shape of Things to Come: A Reflective Summary of the Seamus Heaney Lecture Series, Perspectives on Equality - Ann Louise Gilligan.
Irish Educational Studies, 2022
La Pedagogía Social en un entorno VICA: ¿viejos problemas, nuevas perspectivas? : Comunicaciones y Conclusiones : Congreso Internacional SIPS 2019/ XXXII Seminario Interuniversitario de Pedagogía Social, 2019, ISBN 978-84-947978-7-3, págs. 99-102, 2019
Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 2017
This article proposes the value of using human rights as a foundation for exploring development i... more This article proposes the value of using human rights as a foundation for exploring development issues in the classroom. The article draws on research exploring children's engagement with issues of global justice. The research was conducted with seven to nine year olds in three school settings in the Dublin area. The research explored children's responses to photographs set in different global contexts and to the concepts of money, fairness, decision making and the environment. The findings highlight a tendency amongst the participant children to characterise poverty as extreme deprivation, to marry their understandings of poverty and of developing countries so that one is synonymous with the other and to perceive the relationship between Ireland and developing countries principally in charitable terms. The findings further indicate that, for some children, there was an expectation that people living in developing countries should show gratitude where they have basic facilit...
Development Education in Policy and Practice, 2014
Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina... more Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
Historical Encounters: A journal of historical consciousness, historical cultures, and history education
While there has been a wave of interest in epistemology as a field of study, there have been few ... more While there has been a wave of interest in epistemology as a field of study, there have been few studies focused on primary-aged children and even fewer on their epistemic beliefs about history. Due to the lack of research with younger age groups, much of the explanatory power of the prevailing frameworks in epistemic research has been extrapolated from research conducted with older populations. To address this concern, this paper reports on a series of semi-structured interviews designed to identify primary children’s beliefs about the nature of history and historical knowledge. Thematic analysis of the data provided a rich and textured insight into their understanding of the nature of history and historical knowledge and it was found that these beliefs appear to have their origins in both the children’s experiences of history and their common sense (or domain-general) ideas of how the world works. This analysis also highlighted a number of “epistemic bottlenecks” (beliefs about th...
Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 2014
Policy and Practice; a Development Education Review, 2014
Teaching for Social Justice and Sustainable Development Across the Primary Curriculum, 2021
Development Education in Policy and Practice
Irish Educational Studies, 2006
... Premised on a social constructivist view of children and childhood, the research drew on part... more ... Premised on a social constructivist view of children and childhood, the research drew on participative and democratic ... While the study suggests the existence of an essentialist conception of Irish identity, it also demonstrates the capacity and willingness of children to engage in ...
Irish Educational Studies, 2003
History is like yesterday and the day before that and the day before that etc. It's things th... more History is like yesterday and the day before that and the day before that etc. It's things that happened a long time ago and maybe things that happened yesterday. There is famous history and there is family history and maybe myth and legends are history like the Children of Lir or Setanta. There are lots of different types of history. Even wars are history. There are even stories about love and sorrow in history like Deirdre of the Sorrows. A lot of things have happened in history.
Irish Educational Studies, 2007
Research into student teachers' perceptions, attitudes and prior experiences of learning suggests... more Research into student teachers' perceptions, attitudes and prior experiences of learning suggests that these experiences can exert an influence on practice which can be relatively undisturbed by their initial teacher education. This article is based on the initial findings of an all-Ireland survey of all first-year students on B.Ed. courses in colleges in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland. The survey is the first stage in a longitudinal study which will follow the same cohort of students for the duration of their initial teacher education, seeking to map and track the development of their ideas about teaching and learning in primary history, geography and science. Based on an analysis of the quantitative data in the entry questionnaire, the initial findings suggest that subject knowledge remains a problematic issue in initial teacher education and that both location and gender interact with knowledge, attitudes and subject area to produce a complex and challenging context for teacher educators in history, geography and science education.
ii iii Acknowledgements This research report would not have been possible without the support and... more ii iii Acknowledgements This research report would not have been possible without the support and co-operation of a large number of institutions and individuals. We would like to extend our special thanks to SCoTENS, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick for the extremely generous financial funding they provided over the duration of this project. We are particularly grateful for this support. We would also like to thank the colleges who participated in the study: St. Mary’s University
Public history weekly, 2021
Policy and Practice; a Development Education Review, 2012
Introduction - Mary Ann Lyons and Fionnuala Waldron 1. The Philosophy and Politics of Equality of... more Introduction - Mary Ann Lyons and Fionnuala Waldron 1. The Philosophy and Politics of Equality of Condition - John Baker 2. Multiethnicity and the Idea of Europe - Ash Amin 3. The Challenge of Diversity for Education in Northern Ireland - Alan Smith 4. Equality, Dependency and Disability - Eva Feder Kittay 5. Equality and Education: A Framework for Theory and Action - Kathleen Lynch 6. Give Tongue Its Freedom: Children as Citizens of Irish Civic Society - Mary Shine Thompson 7. Reflections on the Challenges of Inclusive Education: A Response to Eva Feder Kittay's Argument for Equal Dignity - Joseph Travers 8. The Shape of Things to Come: A Reflective Summary of the Seamus Heaney Lecture Series, Perspectives on Equality - Ann Louise Gilligan.