EQI Researchers successful in Shared Island-SCoTENS Research Partnership funding round

EQI Director Dr Martin Brown and Senior Research Associate, Dr Paddy Shevlin have been successful in their bid to the Shared Island-SCoTENS Research Partnership fund. Working with colleagues in Queens University, Belfast and the National University of Ireland, Galway they will conduct research in the area of Cultural Responsivity in Teacher Education (CRiTERiA).

The funding was awarded under the partnership between the Shared Island unit in the Department of the Taoiseach and the Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South (SCoTENS). A call for research on the theme of “How we teach: acknowledging, understanding and learning with others and from others on a shared island” was issued in late 2021 with funding of up to €25,000 per project available. Projects are North-South research partnerships, with contributions from international experts, which will undertake action-based research on enhancing understanding across communities through education.

Details on the EQI project are as follows:

CRiTERiA: Cultural Responsivity in Teacher Education: Research in Action – led by Dr. Patricia Eaton, Stranmillis University College, Belfast, and Dr. Martin Brown and Dr. Paddy Shevlin, Dublin City University, in collaboration with Dr. Manuela Heinz, National University of Ireland, Galway, and Prof. Joanne Hughes, Queen’s University Belfast. This project will work with teacher educators and student teachers to design and develop an Open Access Online course (for teachers of all levels of experience, including student teachers) to enhance culturally responsive educational skills and competencies, recognising that teaching takes place in culturally diverse learning environments. This Open Access Online course will benefit education professionals on the island of Ireland and internationally.

For more information see https://scotens.org/three-new-projects-awarded-funding-under-shared-isl…