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McDonagh, Adrian; McGarr, Oliver – Irish Educational Studies, 2015
This research aimed to explore information and communication technology (ICT) coordinators' discourse in relation to ICT integration in a sample of Irish post-primary schools. As ICT leaders in their schools, how they conceptualise ICT significantly influences school-based policy and use. The research involved semi-structured interviews with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Coordinators, Technology Integration
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Cahill, Kevin – Research Papers in Education, 2018
This paper draws on a three-year critical ethnography which interrogated intersections of social class, school and identity in an urban Irish community. The focus here is on the psycho-spatial disidentifications, inscriptions and class fractioning enacted throughout the school and community of Portown by a cohort of succeeding students from this…
Descriptors: Social Class, Self Concept, Working Class, Social Mobility
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Martin, Gillian S. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
Research on the routines of doctor-patient consultations has been conducted in language and culture concordant dyads and in dyads where either doctor or patient uses a foreign language; yet there is an absence of scholarly engagement with consultations where both participants are using a foreign language. In seeking to address this gap, this…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Physician Patient Relationship, Socialization, English (Second Language)
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McGarr, Oliver; O'Grady, Emmanuel; Guilfoyle, Liam – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2017
The "theory-practice divide" in teacher education can be viewed not simply as an acceptance of a body of knowledge but instead an acceptance of the teacher educator's authority to determine what is relevant educational theory. This research aimed to explore student teachers' views of "educational theory" and how it was…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teachers
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Doyle, Kenny – Research-publishing.net, 2013
Surveillance is typically envisaged as the act of a person being physically watched, their movements and behaviour monitored in a given space and time. While this type of watching undoubtedly takes place, there is also the more subtle and pervasive monitoring of people through the data they accumulate in their daily lives. Contemporary Irish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Information Technology, Privacy
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English, Claire – Research-publishing.net, 2013
Online social media have become integral to individuals' media and communication repertoires globally. They provide spaces to meet with friends, reconnect with old acquaintances and gather around shared topics of interest. This chapter presents findings from a qualitative study into the role of online social media in the lives of 25 to 30 year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Web 2.0 Technologies, Qualitative Research