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DCU to co-host European Science Education Research Association conference
DCU to co-host European Science Education Research Association conference

DCU to co-host European Science Education Research Association conference

The 12th conference of the European Science Education Research Association, ESERA 2017, will be co-hosted by Dublin City University (DCU) and University of Limerick (UL) from August 21st to 25th.

The organization of the ESERA 2017 conference is led by STEM Education Professors Eilish McLoughlin, Odilla Finlayson, Sibel Erduran and Peter Childs from the Irish STEM education research centers CASTeL and Epi-Stem.

The theme of the ESERA 2017 conference, Research, Practice and Collaboration in Science Education underlines aspects of great relevance in contemporary STEM education research: the need to reflect on different approaches to enhancing our knowledge of learning processes and the role of context, designed or circumstantial, formal or in-formal, in STEM teaching and learning.

2017 has become a landmark year in the history of STEM education in Ireland with the development of a national STEM education policy building on the recommendations of the STEM Education review report.

CASTeL researchers at DCU have been at the forefront of advancing national research and practice in STEM education since 2000 and in 2017 have hosted a trilogy of international STEM education conferences that have attracted over 2600 international researchers to Dublin.

The upcoming conference follows on from the hugely successful GIREP-ICPE-EPEC (trio of international conferences in physics education) held in DCU from July 3rd to 7th and CERME (Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education) held in Croke Park February 1st to 5th. International interest and registrations for the ESERA 2017 conference have far exceeded all prior records with over 1600 proposals submitted for conference presentations and nearly 1500 STEM education researchers and teachers from across 75 countries already registered to attend.

The conference programme is available for review at www.esera2017.org