Diversity in Early Years Education North and South: Implications for Teacher Education

To identify an appropriate early years setting that has children attending from both North and South of the border. To identify 2 settings, one North and one in South to act as control groups with children only attending from their jurisdiction To investigate children’s attitudes and awareness relating to social/national identity in 3 settings To …
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Building Research Capacity North and South

18-19 February 2005 All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin A joint venture conference convened by ESAI & BERA supported by SCoTENS To organise two research training days, one in Northern Ireland in Autumn 2006 and one in the Republic of Ireland in Spring 2007. The topics to be discussed include: ethics and educational research; mapping of …
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North South Conference on Education for Diversity and Citizenship

Funding has been granted to two conferences both entitled North South conference on Education for Diversity and Citizenship.  Fifty people from both jurisdictions attended the first conference in the Slieve Russell Hotel, Co. Cavan on the 31/9/2004 – 1/10/2004. The second conference was held for a similar number of participants in the Armagh City Hotel …
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Art and Science in Education: Moving towards creativity

The research will focused on: Developing a dynamic interface in education on the island of Ireland that will harness the arts and science in a synergistic manner to enhance learning and teaching in schools. Enhance creativity in teaching and learning. Expand the application of visual literacy to learning in both Science and Technology. Promote innovative …
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Bringing School Communities Together to Promote Education for Diversity

To involving four pairs of schools, in each jurisdiction, that have a history of involvement in intercultural and/or multicultural education and where particularly in the N Irish context, cross-community contact is viewed as one important location for making a contribution to such work. To engage Dr Simon Lichman to facilitate residential cross-border professional development with …
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Social Justice Education in Initial Teacher Education: a Cross Border Perspective

The project will focus on: Mapping existing provision and approaches to social justice, diversity and development education in Teacher Education institutions on both sides of the border Involving policy makers in the ministries on both sides of the Border to connect the academic and policy perspectives on the issues gathering attitudinal data on social justice, …
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Digital Video as a tool for changing ICT Learning in Schools and teacher education

This project is a follow on from previous work. The project aims to “identify examples of digital video which provide exemplars of what the researchers see as ICT for transformational learning in contrast to ICT being more focused on substituting or amplifying existing teaching and learning practices’. The researchers have confirmed that it is their …
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Research

In line with its objective of providing a supportive framework for collaborative research and professional activities in teacher education in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, SCoTENS provides ‘SEED FUNDING’ for projects such as research, conferences and exchanges which further this objective. The sums allocated are in the region of Stg£3,000 – £6,000 (approx. …
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Current Practice in ICT within teacher education

   


ESAI-BERA Educational Research Seminar

6 December 2006 Cathcart Room, School of Education, Queen’s University, Belfast An Educational Research Seminar sponsored by the Centre for Cross Border Studies and the Standing Conference of Teacher Educators – North and South (SCoTENS), and facilitated by the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI). The event has …
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