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Welcome from Prof. Michael Grenfell: Chair & Head of School

Record Achievements for the School of Education!

For the academic year 2012-13 the School of Education is pleased to announce that 806 students are now registered with us, of which 760 are Postgraduates. We now have total of 70 doctoral students of whom 14 started this year; this makes our doctoral programme the largest in Ireland. Additionally, we will see the completion of up to 20 PhD/DEds. We also welcome to the School 124 teacher education students to the PDE and 146 new students to our  taught Masters’ degrees for the coming year. This makes a total cohort of 295 students; attesting to our commitment to and success in research-led teacher education. This year, we also recorded 28 internationally peer-reviewed publications, including 4 monographs.>>>Read More [PDF]

Conferences

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Exploring Difference & Diversity in Irish Higher Education 2013

REAMS conference 2013

1 Day Conference June12th, 2013 School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. Hosted by REAMS in association with the CAVE Research Group. For further details >>>Read More [PDF]. All enquiries to Mark Kearns and Michelle Giblin.

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Postgraduate Research Conference 2013
School of Education
Trinity College Dublin

The School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, is pleased to announce its
Fourth Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 

‘The Future of Education’

Saturday, June 15th, 9:30am-5pm
Jonathan Swift Lecture Theatre
Arts Building TCD

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Upcoming Events

Our next Research Seminar Series 2012/2013 will be held on Thursday 28th March from 1:00 - 2:00pm in Room 3105, Arts Block. Title: 'GIRL TALK: A Narrative Exploration of the Student-Learners Understanding of Self within the Educative Relationship'. Presented by Kathy Kipp.

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Dates announced for Drama Summer School 15th - 27th July 2013 (inclusive)>>>Further Details

Drama Summer School 2013

 ---------------------------------------- Lucy Green Lecture

The Arts Education Research Group hosted a lecture on Thursday February 7th in the Neil Hoey Theatre. The guest speaker was Professor Lucy Green, University of London. Title: Informal Music Practices and Formal Music Education: Some Illustrations from the Classroom and the Instrumental Studio.

Prof Lucy Green  

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Current News

Bemused

The choir 'Bemused?', B.Mus Ed students winners of the Intervarsity choral competition at Trinity College >>>Read More

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PhD student, Emma Farrell will be presenting a poster at the DPR Conference in Greenwich UK 9th - 11th April 2013 >>>>Read More

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Mohammad Alnufaie, a third year PhD student, has co-written a paper with his supervisor, Professor Michael Grenfell, with the title "EFL students' writing strategies in Saudi Arabian ESP writing classes: Perspectives on learning strategies in self-access language learning", which has been published in the latest issue of the Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal.

--------------------------------------- Bridge21 Presents Junior Cycle Proposals to NCCA Bridge21, a collaboration between the School of Computer Science & Statistics, the School of Education, the Trinity Access Programmes and the NGO Suas Educational Development worked with eight second level schools  around the country last year to adapt the Bridge21 model of technology involving collaborative, project-based learning for use in  classrooms as a vehicle to deliver education in a 21st century fashion.  >>>Read More

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Professor Michael Grenfell has just published (with V. Harris) an article in The Curriculum Journal entitled, ‘Making a Difference in Language Learning: the Role of Socio-cultural Factors and of Learner Strategy Instruction. >>>Read More

--------------------------------------- Research Awards & Scholarships

The School of Education has three types of awards available for students on the Research Register. Closing date 3rd May 2013. >>>Further details

--------------------------------------- **For all recent publications from the School of Education academic staff, please refer to our web page on publications. >>> read more

------------------------------------- The School of Education features in the top 100 QS World University Subject Rankings.>>>Read More

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------------------------------------ Trinity College Library Support for students within School of Education>>>Read More

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Last updated 1 March 2013 kellyva@tcd.ie.