Ongoing Doctoral Research
Claire Dunne
Language Beliefs of Pre-service Teachers
This research concerns critical periods in the development of pre-service teachers' beliefs about learning and teaching Irish, and about the Irish language in general. It will investigate origins of language beliefs, the nature of these beliefs, as well as the catalysts for change in language beliefs. The research will build on the pioneering work of Elaine Horwitz in exploring the importance and implications of pre-service language teachers' beliefs. It will challenge claims made in previous studies that language beliefs are necessarily static and immutable. Exploring language beliefs is of particular importance in an Irish context given the central role that primary school teachers have in the revitalisation and maintenance of the Irish language.
Trinity College, Dublin
Annie Ó' Breacháin
Drama Education - student motivation as a social construct.
University of Exeter, UK
Julie Uí Choistealbha
A longitudinal study of children's and teacher's attitudes to the teaching and learning of Irish in English medium schools.
Trinity College Dublin
Alison Egan
Pre-Service Teachers attitudes to Technology
Trinity College Dublin
Gerry O’ Connell
To examine the process that his students and he are engaged in around religious education and their perceptions of that process, or at least their perceptions of their experience of that process. He is particularly interested in exploring the effect of experiential work on the unfolding of the students’ own spirituality.
University of Exeter
Máire Nuinseann
Children's Instrumental Music Practices in a Bi-cultural Context
DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama
Barbara O’Toole
Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Identity
St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra
Patricia Slevin
Student Teachers' Perceptions of Educational Disadvantage
Trinity College Dublin