SRASI – Shared Responsibility Across a Shared Island: Teaching social justice in initial teacher education

SRASI Report The Shared Responsibility Across a Shared Island (SRASI) project aimed to (i) develop and share a teaching approach to social justice across two Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programmes from North and South, and (ii) encourage teacher educators and preservice teachers (PSTs) to learn with and from each other, within and across their …
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Developing Teacher and Leadership Capacity in Irish Medium Education: An Analysis of Immersion Specific Competences (TLC IME)

TLC-IME English version of report for SCoTENS TCL-IME Irish version of Report for SCoTENS Irish-medium education (IME) is a form of bilingual education in which students receive subject matter instruction through the medium of a minority language, which they are learning at school. This type of education has grown significantly since the 1970s and in …
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Interactive Apps and Narrative Writing

Interactive Apps and Narrative Writing – 2023 In a recent Briefing Paper entitled ‘Education across the island of Ireland: comparing systems and outcomes’, Roulston (2021) argues that the curriculum, pedagogic approaches and assessment in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are markedly different and he asserts that there is a need for both jurisdictions …
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SHARED – Student Hopes: Achievement, Research, Equity and Diversity

SHARED Research Report The SHARED research study explored how teacher educators can prepare and support student teachers to negotiate and engage with social justice issues, including educational disadvantage, attainment and achievement while on their school placement. Context This research project was jointly funded by the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS) and …
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BUDDIES – BUilding BriDges, Diminishing Educational DiSadvantage

BUDDIES Report Although family engagement in children’s learning is a well-established predictor of educational success (see e.g. Higgins & Katsipataki, 2015 and Axford et al., 2019), many children do not enjoy such involvement and several schemes have been put in place across different countries to encourage parents/guardians to take a more active role in their …
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An Exploration of the use of Children’s Literature in Early Reading within a Balanced Literacy Framework in the North and South of Ireland -EuCLER

This project relates to the presence of children’s literature within educational policy in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. In particular, it focuses on the place, profile and prevalence given to children’s literature as a key component in the teaching of reading in the early years (0-8 years). It also explores the potential …
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John Coolahan Award 2021

In recognition of John’s contribution to the foundation of SCoTENS, the John Coolahan award is made to the authors of the Seed Funding Report which is recognised to be most in line with the values and ideals of SCoTENS.  This award is awarded annually at the SCoTENS Annual Conference. Through his pioneering work on SCoTENS …
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Leadership Learning in Initial Teacher Education (LLITE)

This report provides results from the establishment of a new collaborative working group of threecoll eagues from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland who sought to conduct a study on leadership learning across three respective systems. The study titled “Leadership Learning in Initial Teacher Education (LLITE)” began on 1st September 2018. Leadership in …
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John Coolahan Award 2019

John Coolahan Award In recognition of John’s contribution to the foundation of SCoTENS, the John Coolahan award is made to the authors of the Seed Funding Report which is recognised to be most in line with the values and ideals of SCoTENS.  This award is awarded annually at the SCoTENS Annual Conference. Through his pioneering …
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John Coolahan Award 2018

John Coolahan Award In recognition of John’s contribution to the foundation of SCoTENS, the John Coolahan award is made to the authors of the Seed Funding Report which is recognised to be most in line with the values and ideals of SCoTENS.  This award is awarded annually at the SCoTENS Annual Conference. Through his pioneering …
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