Welcome from Prof. Michael Grenfell: Chair & Head of School
Conferences
*Seminar on the National Strategy for Higher Education* (Hunt report)
Hosted by Cultures Academic Values and Education research group
School of Education (CAVE)
DATE, LOCATION, TIME:
19th April 2012, Trinity College Dublin
10am-1.00pm Sutherland Centre Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) Arts Building Trinity College Dublin
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*IES RESEARCH CONFERENCE*
TITLE:
Examining theory and practice in inclusive education
DATE, LOCATION, TIME:
25th April 2012, Trinity College Dublin
9am-4.00pm (I.E.S.)
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Cultures, Academic Values & Education research group (CAVE) in the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, is pleased to announce a forthcoming international conference on higher education policy 14th -15th June 2012 entitled: Learning Communities or ‘Knowledge Factories’? Exploring the influence of national and European policy on higher education institutions
The principal aim of this two-day conference is to explore the influence of national and European policy on the role and purpose of higher education institutions, considering not only the effects of policy initiatives but also tensions and contradictions within local, state and supranational policies.
For further details please contact Dr. Andrew Loxley or Dr. John Walsh >>Read more
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Upcoming Events
Lunch Time SoE Research Seminars 2012
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The next research seminar, 'Mark My Words' - exploring meaning using corpus analysis as a research method will take place on Thursday 23rd. February 2012 in Room 3105, Arts Block, presented by Helen Doherty
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Michael Barron, a postgraduate researcher, has been invited to speak at the Social and Political Review Forum, in the Historical Society Conversation Room in the GMB on Tuesday 24th January 2012. Michael, who is the CEO of Belong To Youth Services, will be speaking on the subject of LGBT activism, which is the focus of his doctoral studies. The title for the forum is 'Changing Ireland; Shaping our Future',and there are three other panelists. For further details >>Read more
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Legendary singer-songwriter Ralph McTell.........
popped into the School of Education on the 6th of January to discuss one of our forthcoming seminars on artistic biography in which he is appearing. The event is planned for later this year and will include an interview about Ralph's own personal background. He will also perform some of his most biographical songs. Ralph is pictured here with our lecturer in Music Education, Marita Kerin, who is joint author of a school music book - Bravo! - which features one of Ralph's best known songs, Streets of London.
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Current News
Dr Andrew Loxley has been awarded a grant from the Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund to support his study entitled the Retention, Progression and Persistence in University Settings: A Study of Postgraduate Research Student Experiences.
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Dr Stephen James Minton was awarded a grant from Trinity College’s Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund to assist with his research into the incidence and typology of, and attitudes towards bullying behaviour in primary schools in Skopje, Macedonia. This research will be the first of its kind to be conducted in Macedonia since 2001, and the most extensive yet conducted in the region of the former Yugoslavia.
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*WINNER OF THE SAGE BURSARY AT ECER 2011 ANNOUNCED*
SAGE, the world’s leading independent academic and professional publisher, announced that the SAGE Bursary at this year’s European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Berlin, was awarded to Dr. Ekaterina Kozina, who was a recent PhD graduate from the the School of Education and was supervised by Dr. Aidan Seery and Dr. Andrew Loxley >>Read more
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'Responding to Special Educational Needs' 2nd Edition by Michael Shevlin and Sean Griffin is now published.
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'Language, Ethnography, and Education' by Professor Michael Grenfell, Head of School, is now published.
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