Teacher Education and Professional Practice

  • Purdy, N. (2023) Reframing Teacher Competencies around Inclusion, Equity, and Social Justice: towards an alternative values-centred model of Teacher Education

    Set against a context of a changing world and a polarised debate around contested understandings of the role and purpose […]

  • McCullagh, J.F. and Doherty, A (2022) Student Teachers Supporting Primary Science: Project Report for the Royal Society of Chemistry

    The ‘Student Teachers Supporting Primary Science Project’ sought to simultaneously address two problems which constrain the pre and in-service phases […]

  • McCullagh, J. (2021) ‘How can digital video support initial teacher education?’

    Digital video has proven to be an invaluable media for learning within initial teacher education (ITE) during the 2020 lockdown […]

  • Beck, G. (2021) In Need of Review: Developing Sensory Provision in Northern Ireland’s Mainstream Primary Classrooms

    The impact of Sensory Processing Difficulties across a range of Special Educational Needs is well researched. More recently, the impact […]

  • Purdy, N. (2020) Assessing the value of SCOTENS as a cross-border professional learning network in Ireland using the Wenger–Trayner value-creation framework

    SCoTENS (the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South) is a unique network of teacher educators from north and […]

  • McCullagh, J. and Doherty, A. (2020) A coteaching model for developing pre-service teachers’ practice and confidence in teaching primary science through inquiry

    Teaching primary science through inquiry offers a number of benefits including developing pupils’ science skills, progressing thinking skills and personal […]

Purdy, N., Ballentine, M., Lyle, H., Orr, K., Symington, E., Webster, D., York, L., (2023) Growing Up Online: Children’s online activities, harm and safety in Northern Ireland – an Evidence Report.

Purdy, N., Ballentine, M., Lyle, H., Orr, K., Symington, E., Webster, D., York, L., (2023) Growing Up Online: Children’s online activities, harm and safety in Northern Ireland – an Evidence Report.

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Jones, Sharon (2023) The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical return to CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian

Jones, Sharon (2023) The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical return to CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian

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Purdy, N., Walsh, G., Orr, K., Rowan, A., Symington, E., and Winter, F. (2024) Transfer Talks

Purdy, N., Walsh, G., Orr, K., Rowan, A., Symington, E., and Winter, F. (2024) Transfer Talks

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