Joe Usher
Biographic Data
| ID | 9577716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Usher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Usher |
| SIGNATURE | USHER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5214-9817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Upper primary school children’s attitudes towards STEM
The number of students pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and careers is a growing concern, with significant implications for societal progress and global challenges. There is currently a strong STEM policy drive to promote the uptake of STEM subjects. Evidence suggests that interest in STEM subjects and career choices begin to form at primary school age. However, there has been no research on upper Irish p…
Spaces between importance and enactment
Radical primary level curriculum reform is underway in Ireland. Many significant changes and additions include, for the first time, an explicit reference to global citizenship at primary level, an active citizen competency and several global learning themes. Research indicates that oftentimes, policy curriculum aspirations fail to materialise in the classroom due to insufficient attention to implementation and teacher ownership. Drawing on a mixe…
‘I hate when we learn off the mountains and rivers because I don’t need to know where they all are on a blank map?!’ Irish Pupils’ Attitudes Towards, and Preferred Methods of Learning, Primary Geograp…
This study investigates 152 Irish primary pupils’ attitudes towards geography and their most preferred and least preferred methods of learning and experiencing geography at primary level. The findings indicate that Irish pupils have a neutral attitude towards geography with no significant difference between male and female pupils nor between class levels. Findings clearly show a direct link between teaching approaches and pupil attitudes with Iri…
El contexto académico, laboral, personal y de procedencia de los docentes de Educación Primaria y el desarrollo de metodologías activas de aprendizaje geográfico en España
La geografía ocupa un reducido espacio en el ciclo de Educación Primaria en España. Por esta razón, se ha considerado oportuno llevar a cabo una investigación sobre las características de la enseñanza de la Geografía en los centros docentes de Educación Primaria en nuestro país, a partir de una encuesta con la que se ha constatado la difusión de métodos activos de aprendizaje basados en el trabajo de campo y en el uso del entorno más cercano del …
Africa in Irish Primary Geography Textbooks
When pupils learn geography they are extending their world view and reshaping it. This paper analyses representations of Africa and African countries and cultures in Irish primary geography textbooks and assesses to what extent these textbook portrayals facilitate or repress multicultural education, specifically critical multicultural education (CMCE). Here, this paper argues that primary geography can and should play a critical role in challengi…
Conceptual framework for the participation of children in local area planning decision-making processes through primary geography education
According to Article 12 of the UNCRC, children have a legal right to have their views heard and acted upon as appropriate.In Ireland, this applies to local planning processes concerning children's localities whereby legislation was specifically enacted to recognise children as a group who were entitled to participate in the local planning process.However, while provisions are being made at policy level, children's participation in practice is ext…
Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic is an unanticipated event that has exposed human fragility in an interconnected and interdependent world. While impacts are of a global magnitude, they have been felt at the most local of levels. Across the world pupils' daily lives and experiences have been directly impacted by government-imposed measures and restrictions taken to address the pandemic. Existing research on the teaching of primary geography in Ireland, altho…
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Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic is an unanticipated event that has exposed human fragility in an interconnected and interdependent world. While impacts are of a global magnitude, they have been felt at the most local of levels. Across the world pupils' daily lives and experiences have been directly impacted by government-imposed measures and restrictions taken to address the pandemic. Existing research on the teaching of primary geography in Ireland, altho…
Africa in Irish Primary Geography Textbooks
When pupils learn geography they are extending their world view and reshaping it. This paper analyses representations of Africa and African countries and cultures in Irish primary geography textbooks and assesses to what extent these textbook portrayals facilitate or repress multicultural education, specifically critical multicultural education (CMCE). Here, this paper argues that primary geography can and should play a critical role in challengi…
Conceptual framework for the participation of children in local area planning decision-making processes through primary geography education
According to Article 12 of the UNCRC, children have a legal right to have their views heard and acted upon as appropriate.In Ireland, this applies to local planning processes concerning children's localities whereby legislation was specifically enacted to recognise children as a group who were entitled to participate in the local planning process.However, while provisions are being made at policy level, children's participation in practice is ext…
‘I hate when we learn off the mountains and rivers because I don’t need to know where they all are on a blank map?!’ Irish Pupils’ Attitudes Towards, and Preferred Methods of Learning, Primary Geograp…
This study investigates 152 Irish primary pupils’ attitudes towards geography and their most preferred and least preferred methods of learning and experiencing geography at primary level. The findings indicate that Irish pupils have a neutral attitude towards geography with no significant difference between male and female pupils nor between class levels. Findings clearly show a direct link between teaching approaches and pupil attitudes with Iri…
El contexto académico, laboral, personal y de procedencia de los docentes de Educación Primaria y el desarrollo de metodologías activas de aprendizaje geográfico en España
La geografía ocupa un reducido espacio en el ciclo de Educación Primaria en España. Por esta razón, se ha considerado oportuno llevar a cabo una investigación sobre las características de la enseñanza de la Geografía en los centros docentes de Educación Primaria en nuestro país, a partir de una encuesta con la que se ha constatado la difusión de métodos activos de aprendizaje basados en el trabajo de campo y en el uso del entorno más cercano del …
Upper primary school children’s attitudes towards STEM
The number of students pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and careers is a growing concern, with significant implications for societal progress and global challenges. There is currently a strong STEM policy drive to promote the uptake of STEM subjects. Evidence suggests that interest in STEM subjects and career choices begin to form at primary school age. However, there has been no research on upper Irish p…
Spaces between importance and enactment
Radical primary level curriculum reform is underway in Ireland. Many significant changes and additions include, for the first time, an explicit reference to global citizenship at primary level, an active citizen competency and several global learning themes. Research indicates that oftentimes, policy curriculum aspirations fail to materialise in the classroom due to insufficient attention to implementation and teacher ownership. Drawing on a mixe…
Sociology (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Geography Education and Pedagogy (4 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (3 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Experiential learning (2 works) · Irish (2 works)