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A Grain of Justice, a Grain of Truth: An Analysis of Obscurity in an Early Medieval Irish Text (2017)

Guidera O'Rourke, Deborah

A Grain of Justice, a Grain of Truth: An Analysis of Obscurity in an Early Medieval Irish Text (2017)

Guidera O'Rourke, Deborah

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Immacallam in Dá Thuarad or The Colloquy of the Two Sages is a ninth - century text preserved in whole or part in eleven manuscripts dating between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries (Carey, 2014, p. 630), in which two poets Néde and Ferchertne engage in a verbal sparring contest which is often obscure, in an attempt to define their iden tity and status and exact the claim of head poet. This paper focuses on §236, Neglect of Crops; i.e., without cultivating them, or without their growing although they are cultivated; or [neglect] of judgements, and §237, Perjuries (2014, p. 637), from John Carey’s edition of the eschatological section of Ferchertne’s speech. It seeks to demonstrate how these phrases illustrate the complexity of the learning of the medieval Irish poet who delivers an eschatological vision of last days, informed by metaphoric and allegorical references which were employed by a ‘small intellectual el...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8296/

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After postmodernism … let’s talk about education (2018)

Biesta, Gert

After postmodernism … let’s talk about education (2018)

Biesta, Gert

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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13165/

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Can the life stories of adult learners offer insights into the development of understanding and knowledge for critical adult and community education? An exploration of the experimental reflections of four adult learners in Ireland. (2016)

Leydon, Mary

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This thesis discusses the life stories of four adult learners in Ireland who tell of their difficulties and how they successfully overcame those difficulties. Through interviews I have conducted with each of them, I hope to provide an opportunity for the reader to gain insight into the experiences of people who have been marginalised. Each of the respondents spoke of their experience of marginalisation and its effect on their lives, highlighting the contention that societal structures work to marginalise people, those who are perceived as different. Using Human Scale Development theory (Max-Neff, 1991) I will discuss the possibility of human needs when not fulfilled, may be viewed as both a deprivation and a potential; a positive and a negative. My research hopes to determine if these life stories can offer insights into the development of ‘An Understanding and A Knowledge’ that will be of benefit for Critical Adult and Community Education. I hope to show that the experiential refle...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9630/

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Choices and Consequences: Impact of Mobility on Research-Career Capital and Promotion in Business Schools (2019)

Ryazanova, Olga; McNamara, Peter

Choices and Consequences: Impact of Mobility on Research-Career Capital and Promotion in Business Schools (2019)

Ryazanova, Olga; McNamara, Peter

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We focus on the role that domestic and international mobility play in achieving a business academic’s career outcomes. We seek to advance existing research by taking a morenuanced approach to the study of mobility. Using a sample of 376 tenured faculty members from 20 highly research-visible European business schools in 10 countries, we explore different patterns of mobility and highlight their link to research-career capital and the speed of academic promotion. Our findings show that mobility has a positive impact on research-career capital, but multiple moves delay academic promotion. In making decisions about international mobility, it is important to know that moving internationally for one’s first post-PhD job undermines research productivity. However, moving internationally between year 2 and year 7 post-PhD is better than moving later on. The ability to move between countries is deeply rooted in gender, with female faculty less likely to access international mobility. Female ...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11316/

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Fuzzy Holes and Intangible Time: Time in a knowledge industry (2008)

O'Carroll, Aileen

Fuzzy Holes and Intangible Time: Time in a knowledge industry (2008)

O'Carroll, Aileen

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The knowledge economy is characterized by highly skilled, highly educated employees whose work is centred on the manipulation of information. This article looks at the work process of workers in the software sector, as their work is both central to the knowledge economy and shares many of the characteristics of other knowledge workers. It describes the temporal frameworks found, grounding them in the work process. It documents specific characteristics of work and work organization that give rise to a time experienced as both intangible and fuzzy. It argues that there is a deep irony at the centre of the knowledge economy. On one hand, speed is the key metaphor of the knowledge economy. Yet the use of metaphors of speed and efficiency bypass any appreciation of the qualitative nature of time found within these work processes. Knowledge production is based on creativity, communication and knowledge development, processes that move at their own pace. These processes sit uncomfortably w...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13032/

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Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

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Genealogy is a historical perspective and investigative method, which offers an intrinsic critique of the present. It provides people with the critical skills for analysing and uncovering the relationship between knowledge, power and the human subject in modern society and the conceptual tools to understand how their being has been shaped by historical forces. Genealogy works on the limits of what people think is possible, not only exposing those limits and confines but also revealing the spaces of freedom people can yet experience and the changes that can still be made (Foucault 1988). Genealogy as method derives from German philosophy, particularly the works of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), but is most closely associated with French academic Michel Foucault (1926-24). Michel Foucault’s genealogical analyses challenge traditional practices of history, philosophical assumptions and established conceptions of knowledge, truth and power. Genealogy displaces the primacy of the subje...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3024/

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Health Literacy: Knowledge and experiences of Traveller women. (2012)

Fitzmaurice, Vivienne

Health Literacy: Knowledge and experiences of Traveller women. (2012)

Fitzmaurice, Vivienne

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AIM OF RESEARCH The aim of this research is to gain more understanding and insight into the knowledge and experiences of Traveller women in the area of health literacy using a use narrative inquiry approach with an education focus and to explore implications and make recommendations based on the outcomes of the research. METHODS USED A method of narrative research was used to gather data through in-depth conversational interviews with Traveller women exploring their experiences of health literacy, education and from a perspective of insider research based on prior relationship of working with Traveller women on health literacy. CONTRIBUTION OF THIS RESEARCH The research has exposed a number of factors within the area of health literacy in the Traveller community, including; That the critical theory approach to health literacy education can be effective in addressing the empowerment of individuals to improve their health literacy That the method of peer educators is a positive approa...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9664/

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Industry & Knowledge Clusters: Principles, Practices, Policy (2003)

Formica, Piero

Industry & Knowledge Clusters: Principles, Practices, Policy (2003)

Formica, Piero

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In 1890 Alfred Marshall published his “Principles of Economics” in which he included a chapter on “industrial districts’', as he defined the geographic concentrations of specialised industries. After the Second World War the term “industrial district” has been applied to the emergence of economic specialisation in specific communities-in Italy, mostly in the northeast regions of the country. A century later from Marshall's book, Michael Porter's neo'Marshallian cluster concept has burst on the scene through a series of seminal articles. The book tracks the evolution of cluster theory from the perspective of the industrial economy to that of the knowledge society, and provides a discursive view of how entrepreneurs, policy makers and governments 'use' clusters today.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9383/

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Knowledge or belief concerning consent in rape law: Recommendations for change in Ireland (2020)

Daly, Yvonne Marie

Knowledge or belief concerning consent in rape law: Recommendations for change in Ireland (2020)

Daly, Yvonne Marie

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The Law Reform Commission of Ireland has recommended altering the law in that jurisdiction in relation to knowledge or belief concerning consent in rape cases. Essentially, the recommendation is to move from a subjective test based on an accused’s honest belief to a primarily objective test based on reasonable belief, taking account of specific subjective aspects of personal capacity and steps taken by the accused to ascertain consent. This article outlines the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission against the backdrop of the existing law and context in Ireland. It compares the newly-proposed law with the existing law in England and Wales, explores the preference for subjectivity in Irish criminal law (and its constitutional dynamic), and considers the potential impact of the recommended change. The effect of rape myths and stereotypes on jury deliberations is a theme which runs through the article.

http://doras.dcu.ie/24539/

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Short-Run Policy Commitment When Investment Timing Is Endogenous: 'More Harm Than Good?' (2011)

Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot

Short-Run Policy Commitment When Investment Timing Is Endogenous: 'More Harm Than Good?' (2011)

Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot

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In our model, firms choose when to set cost-reducing investment and the government, which only has short-run commitment power, sets an output subsidy. We show that firms that delay investment without government intervention have an incentive to invest early under policy activism, strategically underinvesting or overinvesting to obtain larger subsidies. The policy scheme thus creates a new, potentially more harmful, distortion. Under oligopoly, a firm has a weaker incentive to manipulate policy than under monopoly, which makes policy intervention less harmful. We investigate when the government may do better by adhering to laissez-faire than by engaging in active policy intervention.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11364/

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Stigma and treatment of eating disorders in Ireland: healthcare professionals’ knowledge and attitudes (2015)

McNicholas, F.; O'Connor, Cliodhna; O'Hara, L.; McNamara, N.

Stigma and treatment of eating disorders in Ireland: healthcare professionals’ knowledge and attitudes (2015)

McNicholas, F.; O'Connor, Cliodhna; O'Hara, L.; McNamara, N.

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Objectives This study examines aspects of healthcare professionals’ knowledge and attitudes about eating disorders (EDs), which might impede the effective detection or treatment of EDs in Ireland. Methods A total of 1,916 healthcare professionals were invited to participate in a web-based survey. Participants were randomly allocated to view one of five vignettes depicting a young person with symptoms consistent with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, depression or type 1 diabetes. Study-specific questions examined participants’ responses to the vignettes and ED knowledge and experience. Results In total, 171 clinicians responded (9% response rate). Participants had an average of 15.8 years of clinical experience (s.d.=9.2) and included psychiatrists, GPs, psychologists and counsellors. Although participants’ knowledge of EDs was moderately good overall, responses showed poor recognition of the symptoms of EDs compared with depression [χ2 (4, n=127)=20.17, p&...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/6615/

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The creation and circulation of public geographies (2013)

Kitchin, Rob; Linehan, Denis; O'Callaghan, Cian; Lawton, Philip

The creation and circulation of public geographies (2013)

Kitchin, Rob; Linehan, Denis; O'Callaghan, Cian; Lawton, Philip

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In response to the commentaries, we discuss further how social media disrupts and remakes the creation and circulation of geographical knowledges and potentially reconfigures the moral economy of the social sciences. In particular, we examine questions of what is meant by public geography, the publics which such geographies serve, alternative and complementary approaches to social media, the politics of authorship within collective blogs, the politics and mechanisms of knowledge circulation, and the extent to which social media has an impact beyond the academy, enacting ‘minimal politics’.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5368/

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Understanding spatial media (2016)

Kitchin, Rob; Lauriault, Tracey P.; Wilson, Matthew W.

Understanding spatial media (2016)

Kitchin, Rob; Lauriault, Tracey P.; Wilson, Matthew W.

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Over the past decade a new set of spatial and locative technologies have been rolled out, including online, interactive mapping tools with accompanying application programming interfaces (APIs), interactive virtual globes, user-generated spatial databases and mapping systems, locative media, urban dashboards and citizen reporting geo-systems; and geodesign and architectural and planning tools. In addition, social media produces spatial (meta)data that can be analysed geographically. These technologies, their practices, and the effects they engender have been referred to in a number of ways, including the geoweb, neogeography, volunteered geographic information (VGI), and locative media, which collectively constitute spatial media. This chapter untangles and defines these terms before setting out the transformative effects of spatial media with respect to some fundamental geographic and social concepts: spatial data/information; mapping; space and spatiality; mobility, spatial practi...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7241/