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Faculties & Departments
Department of Education
Research
Research and Development |
A core task for the education department has been the completion of a wide range of educational research and scholarship, and the development of students’ capacity to engage in research during their teaching careers. These research activities contribute to the fostering of educational discussion and debate in a variety of fora in Irish public life.
The research activity in the department spans a very wide diversity of topics. It includes original philosophical work, empirical investigations, action research, evaluations and consultancy. A variety of methodologies are employed by departmental staff in their research activities including quantitative research, qualitative interviewing, focus groups, documentary analysis, visual and audio-visual methods, ethnography, narrative and action research. Some areas of research that have come to be identified with the department include development education and education for citizenship, governance and educational policy-making, innovative classroom practice, educational leadership, the use of ICT in education, curriculum evaluation, social justice issues in education, educational counseling and guidance.
We are continually developing new research ideas with other departments and groups, including through our joint research with the Department of Adult and Community Education on themes including development education, migration and inclusive education, community education projects, e-learning and narrative research in education
Research projects
Some of the research projects the education department are workin on are listed here. Further details of which can be found in the table below this list.
- Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century (TL21)
- TL21 Transfer Initiative
- Schools as Active Research Communities (SARC)
- Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium (Irish Aid/ HEA)
- Transformative Education Network (Irish Aid/ HEA)
- Valuing Visibility: An Exploration of how Sexual Orientation Issues are Recognised and Addressed in Post-Primary Schools
- Developing Global Awareness for Student Teachers at Second Level Education (Irish Aid/ HEA)
- Equality Analysis of Admissions Policies of Post-primary Schools (Equality Authority)
- Dissolving Boundaries Project
- ICT Development Education Reality Project
- DiViATE research with student teachers
- A National Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Incredible Years Parent, Teacher and Child Training Series 2007 / 2010 –
- Asia Europe Classroom - Local Industry and Enterprise Project
- Intel project on maths development with student teachers