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Access to print literacy for children and young people with visual impairment: findings from a review of literature
(2011)
Graeme, Douglas; McLinden, Mike; McCall, Steve; Pavey, Sue; Ware, Jean; Farrell, Ann Marie
Access to print literacy for children and young people with visual impairment: findings from a review of literature
(2011)
Graeme, Douglas; McLinden, Mike; McCall, Steve; Pavey, Sue; Ware, Jean; Farrell, Ann Marie
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This article presents a selection of findings from a literature review of best practice models and outcomes in the education of visually impaired children. The review suggested that a key focus of research in this area has been upon the concept of ‘access’, particularly with regards to barriers children with visual impairment face in accessing visual information. Given the broad scope of the literature review, we focus upon access to print literacy as an illustrative example. The potential impact of reduced access to the curriculum and the effectiveness of teaching approaches adopted to reduce these barriers are presented. The relative merits of two approaches to improve access are contrasted: providing children with accessible material in their preferred medium (e.g., large print), and teaching children ‘access skills’ (including the use of technology). There is evidence to show that both approaches are important, but teaching children access skills has important longerterm benefit...
http://doras.dcu.ie/21502/
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Assessing the Processing Costs of Reading Textisms
(2012)
Farrell, Lynn; Lyddy, Fiona
Assessing the Processing Costs of Reading Textisms
(2012)
Farrell, Lynn; Lyddy, Fiona
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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/4363/
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Developing online reading comprehension: changes, challenges and consequences
(2013)
Dwyer, Bernadette
Developing online reading comprehension: changes, challenges and consequences
(2013)
Dwyer, Bernadette
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This chapter explores how the changing nature of literacy in an online environment impacts on the development of students’ online reading comprehension and information-seeking skills and strategies. It seeks to address the challenges presented for students in twenty-first century classroom communities when conducting information searches online. Further, it explores the challenges for classroom teachers in adopting new pedagogies to accommodate a new literacies curriculum. Following this, some of the consequences for classroom curriculum, pedagogies, and conceptual learning with the Internet and other information and communications technologies (ICTs) are presented drawing both on the Dwyer's study and other emerging studies in the field. The study was conducted in three interlinked phases: the baseline phase; reading development and critical web literacy development phase; and the main study phase.
http://doras.dcu.ie/21730/
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Embedding information literacy through critical skills, collaboration and a new curriculum
(2017)
Dodd, Lorna
Embedding information literacy through critical skills, collaboration and a new curriculum
(2017)
Dodd, Lorna
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Part of the National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth University (MU) was formally established as an autonomous university in 1997. However, MU traces its origins to the foundation of the Royal College of St Patrick in 1795. Located 25 kilometres west of Dublin, MU is Ireland’s smallest, yet fastest growing university. With just over 10,000 students, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences form the academic core of the university, complemented by strong departments in teacher education, computer science, electronic engineering, business and law.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8618/
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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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How does blended learning motivate adult literacy learners?
(2011)
Clarkson, Lia
How does blended learning motivate adult literacy learners?
(2011)
Clarkson, Lia
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This piece of work looks at how adult literacy learners in the context of an urban Dublin community education centre are motivated by using a blended learning approach to improving their literacy skills. Chapter one introduces the thesis and gives some background to why this topic was chosen. Chapter two presents a review of the literature looking at the debate around critical theory, key adult education theorists, such as Habermas, Freire, and Mezirow as well as publications focussing in on the area of information and communication technologies (ICTs). I also look at the policy in this area. The findings of this piece of qualitative research are presented in Chapter three. The research involved participants, both learners and tutors, in the weekly literacy session and are presented in a case study. Five areas of motivation are presented. In Chapter four the analysis looks at how the theory relates to the practice and examines the findings in view of the literature review. In the fi...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9619/
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Pathways to Competence and Participation in the Digital World
(2009)
Casey, Leo
Pathways to Competence and Participation in the Digital World
(2009)
Casey, Leo
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This research used grounded theory practice to investigate how and why adults approach their own learning for basic digital literacy. Specifically, the questions of how we should characterise learning for digital literacy and what are the key influences on the learning decisions of adults undertaking a basic computer course were addressed. The actions and experiences of students of Know IT, a blended learning course intended to enhance basic computer skills in the Irish workplace, provided a context for this inquiry. New insights derived from this research are intended to inform and improve future pedagogic design for technology enhanced learning in adults People with low levels of basic skills are seriously disadvantaged in relation to their ability to adapt to changes in the workplace and to participate in further training. This is particularly true for people in need of basic computer skills and digital literacy. Members of this group are often experienced in other areas of work ...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1545/
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Pedagogy or politics?: cyclical trends in literacy and numeracy in Ireland and beyond
(2013)
Ó Breacháin, Anníe; O'Toole, Leah
Pedagogy or politics?: cyclical trends in literacy and numeracy in Ireland and beyond
(2013)
Ó Breacháin, Anníe; O'Toole, Leah
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In 1999, the primary curriculum was published in Ireland, with emphases on ‘breadth and balance’, recognition of the role of language and the arts and commitment to each child’s potential and holistic development. In 2011, the Irish government published a strategy aimed to improve standards of literacy and numeracy among children and young people in Ireland, ‘Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life: The National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People 2011–2020’. The approaches to address concerns over literacy and numeracy in Irish schools, taken by the Strategy, require deconstruction, and in this paper, we argue that the focus on literacy and numeracy to the exclusion of other educational objectives in Ireland at present threatens the holistic ethos of the curriculum. We challenge those involved in education in Ireland to ensure that pedagogical rather than political concerns motivate our strategies and policies.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/12838/
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Pleasure and pedagogy: the consumption of DVD add-ons among Irish teenagers
(2007)
Brereton, Pat; O'Connor, Barbara
Pleasure and pedagogy: the consumption of DVD add-ons among Irish teenagers
(2007)
Brereton, Pat; O'Connor, Barbara
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This article addresses the issue of young people and media use in the digital age, more specifically the interconnection between new media pleasures and pedagogy as they relate to the consumption of DVD add-ons. Arguing against the view of new media as having predominantly detrimental effects on young people, the authors claim that new media can enable young people to develop media literacy skills and are of the view that media literacy strategies must be based on an understanding and legitimating of young people's use patterns and pleasures. The discussion is based on a pilot research project on the use patterns and pleasures of use with a sample of Irish teenagers. They found that DVDs were used predominantly in the home context, and that, while there was variability in use between the groups, overall they developed critical literacy skills and competences which were interwoven into their social life and projects of identity construction. The authors suggest that these findin...
http://doras.dcu.ie/4086/
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The Awful Truth and Budgies: What Liberation is offered by Learning?
(2007)
Fleming, Ted
The Awful Truth and Budgies: What Liberation is offered by Learning?
(2007)
Fleming, Ted
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Education for Liberation is an ambitious title for a conference and a remarkable concept for those in a place that is defined as not free. Education for Liberation could mean education for release, as that is often seen as liberation. But of course that is not exactly what is meant in the conference title. Liberation is a complicated idea and I am reminded of Umberto Eco’s comment (1990) on ‘Disneyland’. He said that the unreality of society is hidden from our view by creating an experience where unreality is heightened. Behind the spectacle, the façade hides all the tricks of capitalism, with a new twist. Toy houses are fronts for shops. In this way the unreal quality of everyday experience is made invisible to us. In the same way the injustices of society, the oppressions and absence of freedom are heightened in prison so that we can harbour the illusion that there is freedom outside prison. I must be free because I am on the outside. We might ask how much freedom do we really hav...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1065/
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What place does accreditation have in learner centred adult literacy?
(2012)
Clarke, Deirdre
What place does accreditation have in learner centred adult literacy?
(2012)
Clarke, Deirdre
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In recent times the field of adult literacy has witnessed many developments. From a position of low status pre 2000 it now finds itself firmly under the Governments spotlight. This is due in the main to the results of the International Adult Literacy Survey published in 1997 in which 1 in 4 Irish adults were found to have difficulty with the simplest of literacy tasks. This newly awakened national interest in adult literacy should seem like a welcome one but with it has brought a bureaucratic, economic, employment and performativity discourse. Traditionally adult literacy was attributed with a redemptive ethos, with many volunteers working in the field. Through the development of an advocacy agency, the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA), this redemptive discourse grew into one of critical literacy. This discourse promotes literacy for empowerment, emancipation and social practice. A learner-centred approach is at the heart of the provision. Currently within adult literacy, the d...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9604/
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