Events & Media

An international symposium was held at EPI-STEM from October 26-28, 2016 on the theme of nature of science in science education. There were participants from the USA, UK, Canada, Finland, Spain, Turkey, Israel as well as Ireland. The opening speech was given by Barry Slattery from NCCA outlining the importance of the nature of science theme in the new Irish Continue Reading

EPISTEM researchers Joanne Broggy, John O'Reilly, Sibel Erduran and Grainne Walshe have contributed 2 chapters to a new science education book published by Sense Publishers and edited by Professors Keith Taber from University of Cambridge, UK and Ben Akpan from Science Teachers' Association of Nigeria.    

On the 10th-12th October 2016 EPI*STEM, National Centre for STEM Education, School of Education, hosted a STEM Colloquium with a team of twelve academics affiliated to the Swedish National Centre for School Technology Education (CETIS). The visit was coordinated by Dr Keelin Leahy, University of Limerick, with Dr Thomas Ginner, Senior adviser, and Dr Claes Klasander, Director of CETIS. The Continue Reading

EPI•STEM, National Centre for STEM Education, School of Education, are hosting a STEM Colloquium with a team of Swedish academics lead by Dr Thomas Ginner, Senior adviser, Centre for School Technology Education (CETIS), Linkopings universitet. The STEM Colloquium will serve the purpose of collaboration under the themes of ‘An overview of the Irish school system’, ‘Technology education in Ireland’, and ‘The Continue Reading

New continuous professional development (CPD) resources for science teaching has been produced at EPI-STEM. The work stems from a project led by Professor Sibel Erduran with participation of colleagues from Bogazici University, Turkey and University of Delaware, USA. The project aimed to infuse scientific practices in pre-service science teacher education by engaging the participants in scientific practices such as evidence-based Continue Reading

Nine members of the EPI*STEM centre, Prof John O’Donoghue, Dr Patrick Johnson, Dr Niamh O’Meara, Dr Ciara Lane, Dr Richard Walsh, Aoife Smith, Kathy O’ Sullivan, Bernie Ní Dhonnchú and Aoife Guerin  travelled to Hamburg University, Germany to participate in the ICME 13 conference. Prof John O’Donoghue John was an invited lecturer at ICME-13. John’s paper attempts to develop an Continue Reading

Alison Cullinane and Sila Kaya recently attended the 13th Summer School of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Summer School 2016 at České Budějovice, Czech Republic.  This is an intensive summer school that took place over the week of August 22nd to 26th 2016. It comprised of workshops, lectures and seminars designed to help improve and motivate PhD research. Continue Reading

Sibel Erduran and Onur Imren attended the International Conference of East-Asian Association for Science Education (EASE) held from August 26-28 in Tokyo, Japan.   Sibel Erduran presented the following papers at the conference with co-author Ebru Kaya: (a) Infusing epistemic practices in chemistry curricula: A theoretical framework; (b) Bird’s eye view on science: Pre-service science teachers’ representations of nature of science; (c) Using political Continue Reading

Researcher of Sensociencia Project, University of Almería   Wednesday 11th May  12h00, Room A1-065   Title of Talk: Sensociencia Project: Science with Sense, Sensors and Sensations   Abstract: Laboratory activities in science classes are disappearing in Spain, the reasons behind this could be that teachers only identify with the motivating function of laboratory activities and prefer hands-on activities before an Continue Reading

The TEMI project formally finishes at the end of July 2016. The UL team is holding a TEMI National Conference on Tuesday June 7th in UL. This will give an opportunity to bring back TEMI teachers from all 6 cohorts to meet each other but also to share their work with other science teachers and stakeholders. The conference will include Continue Reading