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Quillinan, Bernie; McEvoy, Eileen; MacPhail, Ann; Dempsey, Ciara – Irish Educational Studies, 2018
This paper focuses on a community-university partnership built around a programme of study co-created by residents of a disadvantaged community and situated, for the most part, within that community. The aim of this paper is to share lessons learned from this community engagement initiative, as identified through a research study which ran…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Involvement, Foreign Countries, School Community Relationship
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Clarke, Marie; Killeavy, Maureen; Ferris, Ruth – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory small-scale study is to examine the intertwined leadership and followership aspects of the roles performed by school-based mentors in the Republic of Ireland. Design/Methodology/Approach: In order to investigate mentor teachers' perceptions of their role with reference to leadership and followership in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Beginning Teacher Induction, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Chambers, Fiona C.; Armour, Kathleen; Luttrell, Sinead; Bleakley, Walter; Brennan, Deirdre; Herold, Frank – Irish Educational Studies, 2012
This paper describes the findings of a one-year collaborative research project funded by the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS). The paper is derived from a Short Report on this study prepared for SCoTENS on 16th May 2012. The study examined the role of physical education (PE) teachers as mentors to new members of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Physical Education, Mentors, Program Descriptions
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Nocchi, Susanna – The EUROCALL Review, 2012
This paper describes the author's experience with a pilot course of Italian in SLĀ®[superscript 2]. The course is part of a PhD research on "Exploring the potential of virtual worlds to promote Intercultural Awareness in students learning Italian as a Foreign Language." In the paper the author will justify her choice of virtual worlds for…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, Cultural Awareness, Italian, Program Descriptions