Contact
Telephone
01 853 5189
Location
St Mary’s, Room 216
Rannóg
Department of Arts, Literacy & Early Childhood
Role
Lecturer in Education
Biography
Susan has been lecturing in literacy and early childhood education in Marino Institute of Education since 2021. She qualified as a primary teacher in 2008 (DCU, St Patrick’s College), and completed an MSc. i nGnó agus i dTeicneolaíocht an Eolais in 2011 (DCU, Fiontar). Susan worked as an Education Officer (Language) with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment for three years on the Primary Language Curriculum.
Qualifications
BEd (DCU, St. Pats), 2008
Máistreacht i nGnó agus i dTeicneolaíocht an Eolais (Fiontar, DCU), 2011
Diploma in Public Relations (Fitzwilliam Institute), 2012
Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership (Tóraíocht, NUIM), 2014
PhD in Education (TCD), 2022
Teaching
BEd 1: English Methods — Lecturer
BEd 2: English Methods — Lecturer
BEd 3: Early Childhood Education — Lecturer
BOid 1: Múineadh an Bhéarla — Lecturer
BOid 2: Múineadh an Bhéarla — Lecturer
BOid 3: Oideachas na Luath-Óige — Lecturer
ORCiD
Publications and other outputs
Book Chapters
National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. (2021). Contributor for J.L.J. & Van Rooyen, L. (Eds.) (2021). Digital Literacy: Curriculum Development and Implementation in European Countries. CIDREE Yearbook 2021. SLO, Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development. https://www.cidree.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cidree_yearbook_2021_digital_literacy_3.pdf
Journal Articles
Nic Réamoinn, S., & Devitt, A. (2019). Children’s perspectives on the use of robotics for second language learning in the early years of primary education: a pilot study. CALL and complexity, 321.
Thesis
Nic Réamoinn, S. (2022). "Bee-Bot only speaks Irish." A sociocultural investigation of the use of programmable floor robots for second language learning and developing computational thinking skills in the early years of primary school. https://www.tara.tcd.ie/items/f544844b-16a7-4dcc-9183-753e60314373
Conference Contributions
Nic Réamoinn, S. (2019). Children’s perspectives on the use of robotics for language learning (A pilot study), EuroCALL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Presentation on behalf of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education in Europe (CIDREE), Robotics and STEAM Education, Lyon France, 2020.
Nic Réamoinn, S. (2019). The importance of the child voice in research. [Paper presentation]. Postgraduate Research Conference Trinity College Dublin.
Nic Réamoinn, S. (2018). Floor Robots: A child’s insight into using robotics during Aistear. [Poster presentation]. Postgraduate Research Conference Trinity College Dublin, https://www.tcd.ie/tricc/assets/pdfs/TW19-NicR%C3%A9amoinn-Susan.pdf
Other Outputs
Workshop: Bee-Bot in the classroom. Digital Mega Meet, Excited, Dublin Castle, 2016.
Workshop: Bee-Bot in the classroom. Scratch Conference, Amsterdam, 2015.
Workshop: ICT in Education Conference, Limerick Institute of Technology, 2015.
Research/Professional Interests
Susan is interested in language development in early childhood education and the use of digital resources to support children’s first and second language learning.
Awards
Project lead: Awarded the Léargas European Language Label 2013 for the multilingual classroom project. https://www.videozoom.ie/project/leargas-multilingual-classroom/