Search results for: Simmie Geraldine Mooney

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Why Change to Active Learning? Pre-service and In-service Science Teachers’ Perceptions
Authors: O'Grady Audrey, Simmie Geraldine Mooney, Kennedy Therese
This paper explores pre-service and in-service science teachers’ perceptions on active learning. The paper also examines the effectiveness of active learning by pre-service science teachers in the Irish second level classroom through a two-phase study. The test results show a significant difference between traditional teaching and active learning. However, overall analysis indicates that the majority of teachers in the study were not convinced of the value of this way of teaching.
Published: 2014
Updated: Jan. 15, 2015
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Critical Thinking, Caring and Professional Agency: An Emerging Framework for Productive Mentoring
Authors: Simmie Geraldine Mooney, Moles Joanne
This article reports on a mentoring programme in a university at the Republic of Ireland, which provides an accreditation pathway to a master’s level qualification. The authors adopted three different and complementary lenses through which to consider mentoring as an academic and professional practice: (a) the international literature; (b) their own reflective and reflexive dialogue; and (c) observations from mentor teachers’ efforts to interrogate their own professional practices. The authors conclude by arguing for productive mentoring, for sustainable change, as an academic, caring and professional practice that is contextually responsive.
Published: 2011
Updated: Sep. 30, 2013