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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2023Imagining the Irish child
Discourses of childhood in Irish Anglican writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
by Jarlath Killeen
This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant writers, theologians, philosophers, educationalists, politicians and parents from the early seventeenth century up to the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion. The book is structured around a detailed examination of six 'versions' of the child: the evil child, the vulnerable/innocent child, the political child, the believing child, the enlightened child, and the freakish child. It traces these versions across a wide range of genres (fiction, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles), showing how concepts of childhood related to debates about Irish nationality, politics and history across these two centuries.
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Humanities & Social SciencesWhat Does This Look Like In The Classroom?
Bridging The Gap Between Research And Practice
by Carl Hendrick (Author, Editor), Robin Macpherson (Author, Editor), Oliver Caviglioli (Illustrator)
Educators around the world are uniting behind the need for the profession to have access to more high-quality research and evidence to do their job more effectively. But every year thousands of research papers are published, some of which contradict each other. How can busy teachers know which research is worth investing time in reading and understanding? And how easily is that academic research translated into excellent practice in the classroom? In this thorough, enlightening and comprehensive book, Carl Hendrick and Robin Macpherson ask 18 of today's leading educational thinkers to distill the most up-to-date research into effective classroom practice in 10 of the most important areas of teaching. The result is a fascinating manual that will benefit every single teacher in every single school, in all four corners of the globe. Contributors: Assessment, marking & feedback: Dylan Wiliam & Daisy Christodoulou; Behaviour: Tom Bennett & Jill Berry; Classroom talk and questioning: Martin Robinson & Doug Lemov; Learning myths: David Didau & Pedro de Bruyckere; Motivation: Nick Rose & Lucy Crehan; Psychology and memory: Paul Kirschner & Yana Weinstein; SEN: Jarlath O Brien & Maggie Snowling; Technology: Jose Picardo & Neelam Parmar; Reading and literacy: Alex Quigley & Dianne Murphy
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)February 2021My Daughter's Wedding
by Gretel Killeen
Nora Fawn is a fifty–something single mother. She kind of still looks like her younger self, but a really, really tired version. Divorced, living alone … or alone as you can be when your mother visits often for a Double Wine (whine, wine) because her nursing home doesn’t let its residents drink on the premises. But Nora's life is about to get complicated. After four years of silence, Nora’s younger daughter, Hope, calls and says ‘I’m coming home, I’m getting married, the wedding is in three weeks and, as the mother of the bride ... it’s your job to help me make it all happen.’ And then, in characteristic form, she hung up … My Daughter’s Wedding is an unforgettable tale about the hilarious complexity of mother–daughter love.
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Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA)March 2021What Love Looks Like
by Jarlath Gregory
Ben Brennan, is 17, gay, and lives in a working-class suburb of Dublin with his mum, his Jamaican stepdad, and his younger halfsister, Jamie. Can Ben navigate the pitfalls of modern gay dating, with all its highly sexualised expectations, and be true to himself?
