Tag Archives: Education
Reflective Practice: Challenges for Teacher Education (2009 SCoTENS annual report)
The Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAPRCB)
The Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (2008-2011) brings together all nine universities on the island of Ireland and four universities in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi* in a unique, high-level partnership to develop a coordinated approach to Research Capacity Building (RCB) in higher education institutions. The IAPRCB aims: To build the capacity for development […]
Read MoreTogether Towards Improvement (2006 SCoTENS Annual Report)
Pride of Our Place Phase 2 – Final Report
The final report of Pride of our Place – a cross-border local studies project for primary schools – covers the extensive work that the teachers and children did on this project between 2002 and 2006. The project researcher, Mary Burke of St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, situates the project in the development of Education for Mutual […]
Read MoreTeacher Education for Citizenship in Diverse Societies (2005 SCoTENS Annual Report)
Immigration, Emigration, Racism and Sectarianism (IERS) Schools’ Project 2006 – 2008
The Centre was contracted by the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (through Co-operation Ireland) to carry out the Immigration, Emigration, Racism and Sectarianism Schools’ Project. The project brought together nearly 300 children aged 9-14 from 12 schools – six Protestant and Catholic schools (upper primary and lower secondary) in Antrim and Londonderry and six Protestant […]
Read MoreNorth/South Student Teacher Exchange: Phase II
2006-2008 The immediate aim of this project is to build on the experience of the successful first phase of the North/South Student-Teacher Exchange project (2002-2005) in order to provide evidence, through a fourth year of exchanges feeding into an in-depth longitudinal research study, of the need to ‘mainstream’ a system of trainee teachers doing a […]
Read MoreCitizenship and Science Exchange (CaSE) Schools Project
The purpose of this 30-month study, which was run in partnership with Dublin City University, was to enable students to critically evaluate the inter-related roles of science and citizenship. It also aimed to develop an awareness of the interdependencies that exist between communities in the border region. The project centred on a shared web resource […]
Read MoreMapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways: Discussion Paper 4: Educational Co-Operation on the Island of Ireland
by Andy Pollak Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh Abstract Co-operation and exchanges across the Irish border between schools, teachers and youth groups have seen an extraordinary growth in the past decade. Nearly 20% of all schools on the island of Ireland were estimated to be involved in some kind of cross-border contact in 2000. […]
Read More2003 SCoTENS Annual Report
Teacher Education in the Republic of Ireland: Retrospect and Prospect
Papers from a conference on the initial education, induction and continuing professional development of teachers in the Republic of Ireland. An earlier conference in November 2000 had considered the initial education, induction and continuing professional development of teachers in Northern Ireland. The papers presented at the Dublin conference provide a valuable overview of teacher education […]
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