Rachel Lenihan is Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the School of Education at the University of Limerick. Before joining the team in UL in 2022, she was a post primary teacher of English and History for 17 years. She worked as a School Placement Development Officer in the Department of Education and Professional Studies in UL in 2015-1016. This role involved supporting undergraduate students while on school placement as well as forging links between schools and the university. She was seconded to the support services for teachers as an English Advisor with Junior Cycle for Teachers from 2016-2018 and has also acted as an associate. Her doctoral study, completed in 2019, examines teachers' understandings of literacy in the Post-Primary setting. Other areas of interest include education policy, English pedagogy, assessment, Global Citizenship Education and reflective practice.
Research Interests
My research interests include Adolescent Literacy, English Pedagogy, Global Citizenship Education, Assessment and Reflective Practice
Joanne O'Flaherty;Rachel Lenihan;Ann Marie Young;Orla McCormack; (2023) Developing Micro-Teaching with a Focus on Core Practices: The Use of Approximations of Practice.
Education Sciences
Rachel Lenihan; (2023) Other Voices: Speaking and Listening in the English Classroom.
Perspectives on the Teaching of English in Post-Primary Education
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Oliver McGarr;Orla Mc Cormack;John O'Reilly;Raymond Lynch;Jason Power;Jennifer Hennessy;Niamh O'Meara;Aoife Neary;Keelin Leahy;Antonio Calderon;Ann Mac Phail;Ciarán O Gallchóir;Jennifer Mc Mahon;Rachel Lenihan;Christine Ní Chathasaigh;Merrilyn Goos; (2023) Exploring the introduction of the Framework for Junior Cycle: A longitudinal study. Interim report No. 2.
Ireland : University of Limerick
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Rachel Lenihan (2019) Living literacy : an exploration of post-primary teachers' understandings of literacy during the implementation stage of a national literacy strategy in Ireland.
