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Roland Tormey's Degrees

PhD Sociology National University of Ireland
Masters Sociology National University of Ireland
Bachelors Sociology National University of Ireland

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According to Wikipedia, Roland Tormey is an Irish sociologist, teacher, researcher and curriculum developer. He is the head of Teaching Support Centre at EPFL's College of Humanities. Career Tormey studied sociology and social administration at the University College Dublin and earned his bachelor's degree in 1992. He then perused a PhD in sociology and joined James Wickham at the Trinity College Dublin. He graduated in 2000 with a thesis on "The Part-Time Soul: Case Studies in the Management of Culture and Flexibility in Irish Retail." At the London South Bank University he earned a postgraduate certificate in development and environmental education in 2000. From 1996 to 2004 he was a lecturer in sociology at Mary Immaculate College at the University of Limerick, before moving to the Department of Education and Professional Studies at University of Limerick, where he become Department Head in 2009.

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Roland Tormey's Published Works

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Published Works

Education and Poverty (2007) (157)
Learning for the Future: Competences in Education for Sustainable Development (2012) (119)
Does emotional intelligence predict student teachers' performance? (2013) (84)
How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers? (2012) (82)
Re-imagining the traditional lecture: an action research approach to teaching student teachers to ‘do’ philosophy (2008) (51)
Intercultural Education in the Post-primary school; Guidelines for Schools (2005) (46)
The construction of national identity through primary school history: the Irish case (2006) (43)
Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education (2010) (35)
Sleepers' lag - study on motion and attention (2014) (35)
Developing Emotionally Competent Teachers: Emotional Intelligence and Pre-Service Teacher Education (2012) (34)
Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities (2012) (33)
Working in the action/research nexus for education for sustainable development; two case studies from Ireland (2008) (27)
Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses (2015) (27)
Developing teacher agency through dialogue (2019) (23)
Beginning teacher standards for physical education: Promoting a democratic ideal? (2012) (23)
Assessing Emotional Intelligence and Its Impact in Caring Professions: The Value of a Mixed-Methods Approach in Emotional Intelligence Work with Teachers (2012) (23)
Developing Emotionally Competent Teachers (2012) (21)
Academic Buoyancy in Second Level Schools: Insights from Ireland (2015) (20)
A perspective on the relationship between development education and education for sustainable development (2008) (18)
The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education (2015) (17)
The gendering of global citizenship: findings from a large-scale quantitative study on global citizenship education experiences (2012) (15)
The centre cannot hold: untangling two different trajectories of the ‘approaches to learning’ framework (2014) (14)
Approaches to learning, metacognition and personality; an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (2014) (13)
Development Education in Irish post-primary Schools, Knowledge, Attitudes and Activism (2007) (12)
Rethinking student-teacher relationships in higher education: a multidimensional approach (2021) (12)
Celebrating Difference, Promoting Equality; Towards a framework for intercultural education in Irish classrooms (2002) (12)
The silent politics of educational disadvantage and the National Anti-poverty Strategy (2010) (11)
Teacher educators' perspectives on the implementation of beginning teacher standards for physical education in Ireland: developing and regulating the profession? (2013) (10)
Development Education: Debates and Dialogues (2008) (10)
Identity and Development (2006) (8)
Teaching Social Justice; Intercultural and Development Education perspectives on education's context, content and methods (2003) (7)
Student motion and it's potential as a classroom performance metric (2013) (7)
Which professional skills do students learn in engineering team-based projects? (2021) (7)
Happy Ever Afters: a storybook guide to teaching children about disability (2005) (7)
Emotions in engineering education: Towards a research agenda (2020) (7)
Disadvantage or Disadvantaging: Conceptualising Class Differences in Education as a Disease or as a Process? (1999) (6)
Undergraduate group projects: Challenges and learning experiences (2015) (6)
Designing for impact: a conceptual framework for learning analytics as self-assessment tools (2020) (5)
Cutting at the Wrong Edge: Gender, Part-Time Work and the Irish Retail Sector (1999) (5)
Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program (2016) (4)
Gender, prior knowledge, and the impact of a flipped linear algebra course for engineers over multiple years (2022) (4)
The Impact of Gender on Engineering Students' Group Work Experiences (2019) (4)
Facilitating Experiential Learning in Higher Education (2021) (3)
Interdisciplinary Literacy: the ability to critique disciplinary cultures and work effectively across disciplines (2009) (3)
Development Education and Critical Thinking (2003) (3)
Teaching Global Perspectives: Introducing Student Teachers to Development Education (2011) (3)
The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants (2020) (2)
Fostering 21st Century Skills through Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences (2018) (2)
Politics and Society, draft syllabus for consultation (2009) (2)
Subject Disciplines, Interdisciplinarity and Education for Sustainable Development (2011) (2)
Introduction: Initial teacher education and socio-economic inequality (2003) (2)
Social and Political Education in Senior Cycle, a Background Paper (2006) (2)
Migration and Development, No paper, no rights, no voice (2002) (1)
Facilitating Experiential Learning in Higher Education: Teaching and Supervising in Labs, Fieldwork, Studios and Projects (2021) (1)
Situated learning methodologies for activism in development education and education for sustainable development (2010) (1)
Training and development needs for a 21st century academic (2018) (1)
Recent teacher graduates' perceptions of preparing for teaching and educational disadvantage (2003) (1)
Understanding Emotional Competencies Through Development Educat (2008) (1)
Immersive professional activities as learning: Irish teachers learning from overseas volunteering in India (2020) (1)
“…Many Struggles have led us to come and find land for our children…”, popular participation in development (2002) (1)
Development Education and Initial Teacher Education (2011) (0)
Emotions in Engineering Education: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Review (2022) (0)
Summertime Blues: Dublin's Epic Journey to a Historic All-Ireland (2007) (0)
Appendix - Workshop Activities (2012) (0)
Curriculum co-design using participatory rapid prototyping tools (2017) (0)
Failte? An Intercultural resource for community educators (2003) (0)
Belonging, emotion and initial teacher education (2005) (0)
The development, validation and use of an interprofessional project management questionnaire in engineering education (2023) (0)
Ready to face the world?Lessons learnt from applying a Multi-Professional Shared Learning Test tofirst year Engineering and Science students at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. (2016) (0)
Grand Challenge Problem 4: Supporting Teacher Decision-Making Through Appropriate Feedback (2016) (0)
Critical Thinking and Development Education (2014) (0)
Making the world uniform and making the world’s uniform: The effects of the globalisation of culture (2002) (0)
Developing interdisciplinary and intercultural skills in engineers through short-term field experiences (2020) (0)
Teaching, not telling (2021) (0)
Engineering Leaders Conference 2014 Undergraduate group projects : Challenges and learning experiences (2015) (0)
Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education (2019) (0)
Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams (2023) (0)
Research findings about the thinking that gives rise to learning (2021) (0)
How students develop disciplinary expertise (2021) (0)
How do students perceive academic success in secondary schools and in higher education (2018) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Providing feedback on students' practical work (2021) (0)
A question of knowledge (2013) (0)
Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education? Assessing pedagogical training as a step towards gender-inclusive curricula (2018) (0)
Becoming a better teacher for practical settings (2021) (0)
Critical Thinking and Development Education: How do we develop meta-cognitive capacities? (2014) (0)
The ICED 2020 interdisciplinary panel discussion (2020) (0)
How do science and engineering students approach revisions? A self-regulated learning tool for supporting the transition from secondary to higher education (2018) (0)
Research findings about the contexts of learning (2021) (0)
Emotional empathy and engineering students’moral reasoning (2022) (0)
The Part-Time Soul: Case Studies in the Management of Culture (2000) (0)
Managing relationships with a class (2021) (0)
What students learn from labs, studios, projects, and fieldwork (2021) (0)
Creating a Smart Learning Space: Learning with and learning from student-generated data about learning (2017) (0)
Teamwork Self-Efficacy and Gender in Engineering Students : A study on differences in group dynamics and their sources ( 0278 ) (2016) (0)
Teaching under lockdown: the change in the social practice of teaching (2022) (0)
Explaining and demonstrating to students in practical settings (2021) (0)
Impact on the practice of students and teachers of a learning analytics dashboard (2019) (0)
Women, Higher Education and Career Choice; Women's experiences of higher education and career choice in Ireland and Uganda (2011) (0)

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