Dyslexia in Ireland Views regarding the provision for pupils with dyslexia since the publication of the Task Force Reports, North and South (2002) (DyslexiaNS) Project Aims (a) to consult with members of the Dyslexia Task Force groups, North and South (DENI, DES) and ascertain their views and perspectives on the provision of support for pupils …
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Project Aims The aim of the project is to test the theory that, in the context of what has been argued to be a new educational settlement (Vickers 2008) where education and employment now overlap, the transformative possibilities for workplace learning for you people are created, or not, by the learning ethos of the workplaces …
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Project Aims (a) to prepare a summary of existing research on best practice in effective fundamental movement skill development in the work place (within and beyond education) (b) to analyse different models of fundamental movement skill training in physical education teacher education in two research sites, and to compare them with each other and the …
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Project Aims This project is a direct result of the 2012 Annual SCoTENS Conference, and aims to (a) Identify, investigate and case-report the nature and detail of teaching and learning activities within a number of creative classrooms, north and south and (b) contribute to developing better international understanding of the issue of creativity in the …
Read More Creative Classrooms: Insights from imaginative and innovative teaching in Ireland North and South (CCIT – Ireland)

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    

To project held a conference which took place in May 2013 in the School of Education  in UCD for doctoral students in education on the island of Ireland.  This was the fifth Doctoral Conference that SCoTENS co-funded. All Ireland Doctoral Student Research Conference Report  

Project Aims The Programming Studio, a virtual learning environment hosted by QUB will offer a pilot group of post-primary school ICT teachers an opportunity to experience programming as a ‘digital literacy’ by mastering the programming language(s) identified above through games-based learning.  The wider skill of ‘computational thinking’ at the heart of computer programming will be …
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Project Aims This project aims to examine the interaction between Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and school and classroom setting with a view to identifying the factors that support or inhibit teachers in the implementation and development of the methodologies and approaches introduced during ITE  

Exploring Japanese research lessons study as a model of peer to peer professional learning This study seeks to explore the use of Research Lesson Study (RLS), a long-established professional development strategy in Japan, as a model of school-based and peer-to-peer professional development for teachers which is new to Northern Ireland and the Republic. Broadly stated, …
Read More SCoTENS Compilation Report – August 2012