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EPI•STEM The National Centre of STEM Education at the School of Education University of Limerick welcomes our newest addition to the research team, Calie our wellbeing dog.   There can be no environmental justice or ecological re-worlding without multispecies environmental justice and that means nurturing and inventing enduring multispecies—human and non-human kindreds. Haraway, 2018, p.102. Calie’s handler in EPI•STEM is Continue Reading

ABOUT THE EPI•STEM PODCAST Please find below links to our EPI•STEM PODCAST brought to you from The National Centre of STEM Education at the School of Education, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences, University of Limerick. The EPI•STEM PODCAST discusses contemporary issues in relation to Research & Social Outreach projects relevant to the national curriculum of STEAM Education in Ireland. Continue Reading

ATTENTION ALL POST PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS The on-line application system is now open for all post primary school teachers APPLY HERE

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We are pleased to invite you to a one-day conference entitled “Humanising Education: from Competition to Care and Justice, in Theory and Practice” will take place in EPI•STEM National Centre for STEM Education, Room A1065 on Tuesday, 11th June 2024 from 9.30am to 4.30pm. The “Humanising Education” Conference is organised by the Critical and Feminist Special Interest Group (SIG) of Continue Reading

EPI•STEM NATIONAL CENTRE FOR STEM EDUCATION invites you to the School of Education, University of Limerick for a NATIONAL STEAM EDUCATION SUMMER CONFERENCE 2024  “REIMAGINING SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE”  With Special Guest: Professor Sara Tolbert, Professor of Science and Environmental Education, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.  “Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene” [https://www.dubraybooks.ie/product/reimagining-science-education-in-the-anthropocene-9783030796242] inspires us to be critical and Continue Reading

This research report, ‘Making the Transition: Students’ Mathematical Journey from Primary to Post-Primary School in Ireland’ comprises three journal publications. We investigate student performance in mathematics during the transition from primary to post-primary school. Throughout her career the author (VR) observed, just as national research has shown that students repeatedly demonstrate difficulty in mathematical topics that overlap sixth class and Continue Reading

  Left to right: Peader Henehan, Founding member of the ETTA, Billy Higgins ETTA Chair, Donal Canty, Deputy Head of School of Education, UL, and Mark O'Dea, Local Area ETTA Chair University of Limerick’s EPI•STEM National Centre for STEM Education were delighted to host members of the Engineering Technology Teachers Association (ETTA) on campus to attend a 40th Anniversary celebration of the founding Continue Reading