Education Research
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McClelland, D. and Purdy, N. (2023) Back to the future: Contemporary lessons from a century of learning at Arellian, Ireland’s oldest nursery.
This article emerges from a SCoTENS-funded research project, Contested Childhoods Across Borders and Boundaries (2019-2021), jointly conducted by Maynooth University […]
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Purdy, N. (2023) Reframing Teacher Competencies around Inclusion, Equity, and Social Justice: towards an alternative values-centred model of Teacher Education
Set against a context of a changing world and a polarised debate around contested understandings of the role and purpose […]
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Purdy, N. (2023) Internet Use and Perceived Parental Involvement among Adolescents from Lower Socioeconomic Groups in Europe: An Exploration
Internet usage is a salient developmental factor in adolescents’ lives. Although relevant correlates of Internet use have been documented earlier, […]
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Jones, Sharon (2023) The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical return to CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian
This paper revisits C.S. Lewis’s relationship with his Irish roots and offers a geo-critical reading of his 1951 novel Prince Caspian. […]
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Ievers, Michael et al (2024) The Impact of Project-Based Learning on the development of the Transversal Skills
The aim of this study is to contribute to the ongoing discourse relating to the value and assessment of Project-Based […]
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McClelland, D. and Purdy, N. (2021) Contested childhoods across borders and boundaries: Insights from curriculum provisions in Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in the 1920s
Conceptualisations and constructs of children and childhood are temporally and contextually grounded. Historical documents are rich sources of insight and […]
Purdy, N., Ballentine, M., Lyle, H., Orr, K., Symington, E., Webster, D., York, L., (2023) Growing Up Online: Children’s online activities, harm and safety in Northern Ireland – an Evidence Report.
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Jones, Sharon (2023) The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical return to CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian
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