• Examining current provision, practice and experience of initial teacher training providers in Ireland preparing pre service teachers for the inclusion of students with special education needs in physical education classes. 

  Crawford, Susan; O'Reilly, R.; Flanagan, N. (European Federation of Adapted Physical Activities (EUFAPA), 2012-08)

  Research from an international perspective in relation to the preparation of pre service teachers in physical education and special educational needs indicates that initial teacher training providers are inconsistent in ...
• Trials of the rhizomatic learner 

  Long, Fiachra (Edizioni Erikson, Trento, 2014-06)

  How should educators respond to the whole phenomenon of ‘digital learning’? This question has been in vogue for the past twenty years or more and there is a need for a regular renewal of this question as societies change. ...
• Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health: evidence and background to the development of the Y-PATH physical activity intervention for adolescents 

  Belton, Sarahjane; O'Brien, Wesley; Meegan, Sarah; Woods, Catherine; Issartel, Johann (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014-02-05)

  Background: Despite known benefits of regular physical activity for health and well-being, many studies suggest that levels of physical activity in young people are low, and decline dramatically during adolescence. The ...
• Mathematics as (multi)cultural practice: Irish lessons from the Polish weekend school 

  O'Brien, Stephen; Long, Fiachra (Georgia State University, 2012-12)

  In this article, the authors challenge the erroneous assumption that mathematics is universal, and thus culturally neutral, by critically investigating diverse cultural meanings and “ways of knowing” that influence ...
• School sport and academic achievement 

  Bradley, John L.; Keane, Francis; Crawford, Susan (Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013-01)

  ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Physical Education and School Sport (PESS) is an integral part of the school curriculum in Ireland. Historically the Healthy Body, Healthy Mind philosophy has promoted the inclusion of PESS alongside ...

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