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Faculties & Departments
Department of Education
Research
In the Education Department of NUIM, we’re interested in learning and in the quality of learning. This includes deepening our understanding through the conduct of research, both individually and collectively, into pedagogy, into educational practices and principles, into leadership in an educational setting, into counselling and guidance, into social justice and educational disadvantage. It also includes sharing that understanding with others, through publishing and teaching the learnings from our research.
Why do we undertake research in the education department? Our core reason is the advancement of knowledge about and the deepening of expertise in educational practices and rationales.
We are continually developing new research ideas with other departments and groups, including 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.
The research of the department can be considered under the following themes:
- Teaching, Learning and Curricular Development
- Development Education, Social Justice and Educational Disadvantage
- Educational Leadership
- Educational Counselling and Guidance
- Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
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