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Irish Journal of Academic Practice
ISSN 2009-7387 · Technological University Dublin · 156 articles in the index
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Implementing inter-institutional lifelong sustainability education: The UNI-ECO e-learning case study
Inter-institutional collaboration is a key strategic action for higher education institutions (HEIs) engaging in sustainability education initiatives. Collaboration of this type can strengthen sustainability knowledge sharing and production, develop student and staff sustainability competencies…
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Embedding sustainability in food degrees: A Case-study of service-learning as a signature pedagogy for developing food sustainability competencies
Food production and consumption are emblematic of challenges to operate within planetary boundaries, whilst providing minimum access for all. They draw on natural and human resources and are de facto drivers of land-use. Moreover, their recognition in the United Nations Sustainable Development…
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Empowering lecturers and students with constructivist, community-engaged pedagogies to support Sustainable Development Goals
This reflective paper is a summary of a dialogue between colleagues in TU Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast on addressing the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Community Engaged Research and Learning (CERL). Two of the authors were involved in facilitating an…
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An Analysis of the Environmental Attitudes of Undergraduate Construction Management Students using the New Ecological Paradigm Scale
Institutions generally lack formal processes to identify the impact that environmental initiatives may have on students, but one possible solution is the use of the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale to monitor these potential changes. The aim of this study is to evaluate the change (if any) in…
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Circular Pedagogy to Support Technological Universities Cultural Transformation
European countries need active and proactive educational systems assisted by models that can drive a cultural transformation, which supports sustainable socio-economic and environmental development. In this paper, we reflect on the future of European education by engaging on a critical review of…
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From Flagship to Flotilla? Findings from a Review of Literature on Learning Spaces in Higher Education, and Education for Sustainable Development
The development of physical and digital teaching and learning spaces in higher education has been the focus of attention from researchers in recent years. Teaching spaces on campus, and the campus itself, have been reconsidered in light of pedagogical, technological, political, ecological, and…
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Embedding Development Education and International Service-Learning in Undergraduate STEM Programmes to Address Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.7
Development education and international service-learning are approaches to education that have the potential to offer students an opportunity to develop their understanding and appreciation of global issues such as poverty and inequality. In this regard, both approaches are aligned with Global…
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Education for Sustainability – Are we Forgetting the Economic Dimension?
The world's economies face acute anthropocentric challenges. We are witnessing significant structural disruption, driven by an urgent need to redress a historical focus on unchecked economic growth and unequal access to resources, requiring seismic transformations of our economic, social, and…
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A Critical Reflection on the Importance of Education for Sustainable Development
The United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development highlights the value of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in enabling societal progress. Contemporary society needs to consider sustainable development in a broader context where equity, diversity, and inclusion are integral to…
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Reviving the gobbet: venerable sophistication for contemporary media literacy
This paper suggests that a technique for close textual reading used in history, the classics and theology for two almost two centuries, the gobbet, can be repurposed as a method of developing media literacy in higher education students in other disciplines. The gobbet is a bite-sized extract from a…
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Everyone Could Use A Little Entrepreneurial Resilience
This short opinion piece argues that entrepreneurial resilience is not confined to entrepreneurs; rather, it comprises a mix of personal, transversal skills which can be developed, and which may be to benefit of all students, regardless of discipline. It offers an invitation to third level…
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Case-Study: An Industry-Academic Engagement Study of the Brewing and Distilling Sector in Ireland
Industry-academic (I-A) engagement models refer to the collaboration between academic institutions and industry partners to co-create and develop educational programmes that are relevant and responsive to industry needs. This study consists of research conducted as part of a 5 month Convene…
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Special Issue - Reflection
In reading the papers in this edition of IJAP, these closing reflections outline the case for transformation in accounting, economics, and finance education. Indeed, as subsets of business education, there is strong evidence that all three disciplines (and their respective professional practices)…
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How Social Work Managers Can Benefit from Teaching Social Work Students in a University
The Department for Education’s Social Work Teaching Partnership initiative(Interface Associates UK Limited, 2020) in England created opportunities for social work practitioners to teach students at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This paper critically considers the effects of teaching on an…
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Universal Design: a valuable resource to enhance and improve teaching and learning
Opinion Piece. This short piece will explore my experience of undertaking the Digital Badge for Universal Design in Teaching and Learning with the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning from October to December 2022.
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Continuous Professional Development and Work Conditions for English-Language Teaching Practitioners in Ireland: Where do we go from here?
In Ireland, English-language schools have historically constituted a lucrative sector for their owners and the Irish exchequer. However, teachers of English as a foreign language have not reaped financial rewards on an equitable scale. Two online surveys were conducted in 2020 and 2021 to ascertain…
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Problematizing Management Learning and Education in the Development of a Critical Management Pedagogy
In this essay, I try to answer Contu’s (2018; 2020: 738) call for management scholars to embrace and work towards intellectual activism in business schools whereby she invites her readers “to add your ‘two cents’ by working in ways that participates in building a more progressive, equitable, freer…
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ChatGPT: A tool to embrace or ban in Academia?
ChatGPT: A tool to embrace or ban in Academia? Opinion piece
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Authentic Assessment and Embedding Sustainable Literacy and Technology Skills in Tourism Education.
John Tribe proposed a model for ethical tourism which ‘utilises the Aristotelian idea of actions guided by practical wisdom, and that can contribute to curriculum, which participates in ‘tourism world-making' (Tribe, 2002, p323). Considering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the integration…
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Fostering Student Engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals using an Escape Room
This paper describes the use of gamification, in the form of an interactive puzzle-based escape room, as an innovative and cross-curricular approach to introducing the United Nation (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in higher education. Educational games encourage active and collaborative…