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21st October, 2024

Stran at SCoTENS 2024: research launched at all-Ireland teacher education conference

The 22nd Annual SCoTENS conference took place last Thursday and Friday at the Slieve Russell Hotel in Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, with Stranmillis well represented at this year’s event.

SCoTENS – short for the Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South – was established in 2003 following the Good Friday Agreement to promote cross-border collaboration in teacher education on the island of Ireland. As part of this work, SCoTENs organises an annual conference, a student-teacher exchange programme, and provides seed funding for research projects.

Among the major reports launched at the event was the Cultural Responsivity in Teacher Education: Research in Action report – known as the CRiTERiA project – co-led by SUC’s Director of Teaching and Learning, Prof Patricia Eaton in conjunction with teams from Dublin City University, University of Galway, and Queen’s University Belfast.

Stranmillis staff were also represented across the two-day conference, including

  • Dr Jayne Moore, who presented with Dublin City University’s Dr Regina Murphy, on their report ‘Co-constructing understandings of inclusion and democracy through music education with student teachers in North and South’
  • Ms Catriona Rogers and Ms Paula Carlin, presenting with Dr Alison Moore from University College Cork, on their research ‘Facilitating Reflection and Dialogue Across Borders: Establishing a Community of Practice to enhance early years placement experience in Ireland’
  • Dr Gillian Beck, presenting her research ‘Promoting sensory pedagogy for all: a whole class teaching approach to sensory education provision’

Stranmillis University College’s Director of Research and Scholarship, a previous Chair and current member of of SCoTENS Committee, also chaired a panel discussion around a keynote address of the conference from Mr John Lonergan, ‘The challenges that still exist in our efforts to create a fair, just, equal, and inclusive society on the island of Ireland – why teachers play a vital role in helping us to achieve this dream’.

Find out more about SCoTENS on their website here: https://scotens.org/

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