Teaching Political history at primary level (TPHPL)

Project Aims This project aims to explore the role of primary education in the teaching of political history, with particular emphasis on teaching contested or controversial history in the context of the decade of commemorations    


Teaching controversial history: A symposium on the teaching of 1916 and the battle of the Somme

Project Aims Examine issues relating to the teaching of 1916 and the Battle of the Somme and their implications for teacher education. Facilitate the development of a major North South project on the teaching of these and related events.


Science enhancement and learning through exchange and collaboration among teachers (SELECT)

Project Aims Facilitate teacher exchange and collaboration with respect to best practice in science teaching and learning. Use exchange and collaboration to extend and develop the expertise of two groups of teachers. A group of Dublin-based teachers who, in partnership with science education staff from St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, have developed an expertise in classroom …
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Conference to disseminate findings from the research project: Student Teachers’ Perceptions and Experiences of History, Geography and Science: An All-Ireland Survey

To provide an opportunity for the dissemination of findings from the current longitudinal research project: Student Teachers’ Perceptions and Experiences of History, Geography and Science: An All-Ireland Survey To provide a forum for discussion of findings with policy makers and curriculum developers To provide a workshop involving senior researchers in which IASSEE members can consider …
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All Ireland longitudinal study of student perceptions of history, geography and science education

In 2003, the Irish Association of Social, Scientific and Environmental Education (IASSEE) embarked on a four-year longitudinal study of how student teachers’ prior experiences and perceptions of history, geography and science interacted with their initial teacher education. The study was planned in three phases: an entry questionnaire to establish their ideas and attitudes at the …
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