Check out the Department of Education at ECER!

    Monday, September 7, 2015 - 11:15

    At this year’s European Conference on Educational Research (the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association), the Department of Education has a very strong presence with a total of 14 presentations:
     
    Sharon Todd, ‘Facing Uncertainty in Education’ Keynote Presentation, Wednesday, September 9th
     
    Sharon Todd, Special ECER Panel on ‘What Does it Mean to Live Together in a Culturally Diverse Europe?: Exploring the Role of Education and Educational Research’, Wednesday September 9th
     
    Sharon Todd, Keynote Panel ‘Education and Transition: Contributions from Educational Research’ Friday, September 11th.
     
    Céline Healy, ‘Creative Classrooms: Insights from Imaginative and Innovative Teaching in Ireland, North and South’, Friday September 11th
     
    Catriona O’Toole, Mairead Furlong, Sinead McGilloway, Arild Bjørndal, ‘School-based mindfulness programs: Transforming children's lives or merely a passing fad?’ Tuesday September 8th
     
    Grace O’ Grady, ‘Critical Performative Praxis: Towards
    Deconstructing ‘White’ as a Hegemonic Identity’, Wednesday September 9th
     
    Angela Rickard and Thomas Walsh ‘Facilitating co-teaching and resource sharing: Developing a professional learning community among co-operating teachers and student teachers on School Placement’, Thursday September 10th.
     
    Pádraig Hogan,  Convenor of  joint symposium  on “Educational Goals and the PISA Assessments”  (Network 9, Assessment & Network 13 Philosophy of Education), featuring : Gert Biesta, Brunel University; Francesca Lorenzi & Andrew O’Shea, Dublin City University; Andrew Davis, University of Durham,   Eugenio J. Gonzalez, IEA-ETS Research Institute  Hamburg.   Friday, September 11th.
     
    Majella Dempsey (Presenting), Dr. Ann O’Shea, Dr. James Lovette, Dr. Brien Nolan (3U). Building Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) for Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers. Network 24: Mathematics Education Research – Tuesday 8th 17.15 -18.45
     
    Majella Dempsey. Straddling the divide between transmission and constructivist beliefs: Changing pedagogical practices in upper secondary education in Ireland.
    Network 3: Curriculum Innovation. Wednesday 9th 15.30-17.00.
     
    Niamh Burke, Majella Dempsey, Ann O’Shea, Angela Rickard (Presenting). Symposium on Formative Assessment in Science and Mathematics (FaSMEd).
    Network 9: Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement. Friday 11th 9.00 – 10.30.
     
    Rose Dolan and Rob Klassen (University of York) ‘Selection for Teacher Education in the UK and the Republic of Ireland: A Proposal for Innovation’ Wednesday September 9th
     
    Delma Byrne, as President of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESRI) will represent the organisation at the EERA Council meeting, which will follow the conference.
     
    Anthony Malone “Critical, Collaborative Engagements with ‘Literary’ Text: Social Semiotic Analyses” (accepted)