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Coffey, Pat; Sharpe, Rachael – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
Ireland's government placed a renewed focus on the teaching and learning of numeracy with the publication of a national strategy in 2011. Whole-school planning for numeracy was already a requirement for disadvantaged schools also known as Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) in Ireland. This single site case study explored how a…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction
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Burns, Gareth – Irish Educational Studies, 2016
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Irish primary teachers, and particularly those working in disadvantaged schools, are coming under increasing pressure to orient their practices towards satisfying the exigencies of accountability and performativity (Conway, P. F., and R. Murphy. 2013. "A Rising Tide Meets a Perfect Storm: New Accountabilities…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Accountability, Performance
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NicMhuirí, Siún – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
This paper details the analysis of the participation of individual students in a teaching experiment in which the researcher aimed to facilitate a mathematical discourse community. This involved positioning students as mathematical authorities capable of generating and evaluating mathematical thinking. The extent to which students acted as…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Mathematics Instruction, Self Concept, Mathematics Achievement