Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a child in primary school in Ireland today?

📣Report 7 of the Children’s School Lives study ‘Children’s wellbeing in Irish Primary Schools (2019 to 2023)’ launched today.

🔗 You can read the report here: tinyurl.com/yc24a6w8

📰 “Primary school children mostly happy and positive about learning, study finds” - Irish Examiner

#CSLstudy NCCA UCD School of Education University College Dublin

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📰 “Children’s happiness drops as they approach secondary school, study finds” - Irish Times

#CSLstudy NCCA UCD School of Education University College Dublin

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🚨 Report 7 from Children’s School Lives is now published on the #CSLstudy website.

🔗 Read the report in full here: cslstudy.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/upl…

🧵 Offering a compelling picture of the centrality of children’s school experiences to their wellbeing, some key findings included:

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This week our reading group on children's rights in the time of planetary crisis will focus on
🗣️ voice
💪agency
🎯participation

We will explore recent evidence on empowering children and young people, their awareness, ‘voices’ & actions in a/redressing climate change

Join us!

We had an amazing time at the end-of-term social with our MA in Education and MSc in Education, Children and Youth.

Olga Ioannidou UCD School of Education

Fully funded PhD opportunity - Colleague Olga Ioannidou is seeking to recruit one PhD candidate to work on a research project exploring critical thinking and scientific reasoning in national curricula and high-stakes assessment. More here ucd.ie/education/rese…

📢Call for abstracts for a Special Issue on ‘Regional Spaces in Higher Education’

More information here: researchcghe.org/news/4715/

Guest editorial team: Lee Rensimer (UCL), Rachel Brooks (Surrey), Maia Chankseliani (Oxford), Tristan McCowan (UCL) & David Mills (Oxford)

Delighted to have Professor Wendy Murawski, Chair of the Center for Teaching and Learning at California State University, visiting us UCD School of Education today!

Fascinating presentation on co-teaching for children with special educational needs

📄 #CSLstudy research in the International Journal of Research & Method in Education.

🚨 Mags Crean, Barbara Moore, PhD, and colleagues explore the impact of remote research on the collaborative production of methodological knowledge during Covid-19.

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There's still time to register for this online seminar, which takes place at midday (GMT) tomorrow.

Join the Centre for Global Education and Comhlámh to discuss Development Education and Migration. You'll find the registration link and more info below👇

Our School is delighted to host a public talk on 'Co-Teaching Research and Practice: Lessons learned internationally' by Professor Wendy Murawski -Chair of the Center for Teaching and Learning at California State University. When: May 16th @ 3pm (online & in-person)

“We get constantly bombarded with conflicting information, arguments, and opinions. People follow different principles and criteria to judge what to trust and reject.”

Suspension of Beliefby MIC’s Head of the Department of Philosophy, Dr Daniel Vázquez offers a systematic

Suspension of Belief by Daniel Vázquez, Head of the Department of Philosophy at MIC, is free to access until 9 May.

Follow the link below.

We are constantly bombarded with conflicting information, arguments, and opinions.

We often form beliefs without sufficient grounds or disbelieve when we ought to believe.

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The Children's School Lives study highlights how we should view children as learning citizens...learning citizens incorporates belonging, voice, rights and identity ...the essence of wellbeing. NCCA #primarydevelopments

“When children succeed in maths, it becomes the subject they enjoy most”. Fascinating insights into the importance of competency & accomplishment as Prof Dympna Devine & Gabriela Martinez Sainz report on the longitudinal study of children's school lives in Ireland NCCA #PrimaryDevelopments