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Dr Louise Lehane and Dr Gráinne Walshe from EPI*STEM were successful in the recent Education and Health Science Faculty seed funding competition focused on providing funds for early career researchers to engage in research.   Louise and Gráinne’s study is entitled “Teacher-based Curriculum Development incorporating Nature of Science in Junior Cycle Science”. It is primarily focused on facilitating in-service teachers Continue Reading

UL partnership with Johnson & Johnson to advance STEM careers of women University of Limerick is one of the 10 partnerships that Johnson & Johnson will be engaged with around the world to help increase the number of undergraduate women enrolling in and declaring majors in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design (STEM2D). The partnerships are Continue Reading

STeP into Science Project Engaging Students, Teachers and Parents in Debates A new project on engaging students, teachers and parents in scientific debates has been awarded funding from Science Foundation Ireland. The project aims to facilitate the teaching and learning of the curricular objectives on Key Skills and Nature of Science. The project is led by Professor Sibel Erduran with partnership Continue Reading

The University of Limerick conferred the graduands of the Professional Diploma in Mathematics for Teaching (PDMT) today 23rd of January 2016. Minister for Education and Skills Jan O’Sullivan TD attended the ceremony which saw 240 teachers graduate from the two year part-time programme which was initiated in 2012 by government contract. As registered post-primary teachers and graduates of the programme, Continue Reading

Louise Lehane from EPI-STEM recently published an article entitled "Getting to the CoRe of it: A review of a specific PCK conceptual lens in science educational research" along with Dr Adam Bertram, senior lecturer in Science Education in RMIT University, Melbourne AU. This article provides a review of the literature pertaining to a PCK lens (the Content Representation or CoRe Continue Reading

Professor Sibel Erduran has delivered a Keynote Lecture on January 8th, 2016 at the Association for Science Education Conference held in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The talk was sponsored by the ASE Chemistry Education Research Group. ASE is the largest subject association in the UK. As the professional body for all those involved in science education from pre-school to higher education, Continue Reading

Dr Geraldine Mooney-Simmie and Professor Sibel Erduran will participate in a project commissioned by the British Educational Research Association and entitled "Reviewing the potential and challenges of developing STEAM education through creative pedagogies for 21st learning: how can school curricula be broadened towards a more responsive, dynamic and inclusive form of education?”  The project will be led by University of Continue Reading

Professor Sibel Erduran has edited a collection of papers on the theme of “scientific practices” in the November 2015 (Volume 99, Issue 6) issue of the journal Science Education. The collection brings together the work of science educators as well as a historian and a sociologist of science. Science Education Journal is published by Wiley, and ranks 7th out of Continue Reading

In October 2015, Professor Sibel Erduran has participated in the activities of the NARST Linking Science Educators’ Program funded project based at American University of Beirut, Lebanon with collaborators Professor Zoubeida Dagher of University of Delaware, USA, Dr Ebru Kaya of Bogazici University, Turkey and Professor Saouma Boujaude of American University of Beirut, Lebanon. The team conducted workshops on learning Continue Reading

European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Biennial Conference Pasila, Helsinki, Finland August 31st  – September 4th, 2015. Six members belonging to the EPI*STEM centre, Prof Sibel Erduran, Dr Peter Childs, Grainne Walshe, Louise Lehane, Laurie Ryan and Aishling Flaherty travelled to participate in the ESERA 2015 conference which took place in Pasila, a 5 minute train ride from Helsinki’s city Continue Reading