Caitriona Cleary presented at the Round-Robin session at NEARI-meet in UCD on September 16, 2017. Here is a snippet of her presentation:
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NEARI-meet arrives in University College Dublin (UCD)!
Our first ever NEARI-meet in UCD will take place on Saturday morning next, 16 September at 10.15 am. It will be PACKED with people sharing the story of their learning, from their reflections and research on their practice, in our Round Robin sessions. Everyone will have the opportunity to engage in dialogue and to question assumptions!
Our theme for this meeting is: ‘Validity in Action Research’. This discussion will be led by Dr. Caitriona McDonagh.
Our meeting will take place in the Sutherland School of Law, Belfield campus, see Building 73 on the map below.
Details and bookings at info@eari.ie
Next NEARI-meet in UCD on 16 September at 10.15 am
What is self-study action research?
NEARI-meet April 22, 2017 at ESAI 2017 in University College Cork
As NEARI, we accepted the kind invitation to run our April 2017 NEARI-meet alongside the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) annual conference in UCC with delight. ESAI17 was a highly stimulating conference and many members from the NEARI network presented papers at it.
Our NEARI-meet was chaired excellently by Cornelia Connolly from DkIT, who kept everyone on task with gentle nudge and a sharp eye on the clock.
The session opened with Bernie Sullivan’s thought provoking presentation on values and their role in the research process. Below are the slides from Bernie’s presentation as well as a video clip from it.
Following a lively discussion on values and how sometimes, people can experience conflicting values in their everyday practice, Muireann O’Keeffe spoke about her recent studies on the use of Twitter for professional learning. The discussion was of great interest not only to people who already were using Twitter but also to the non-Tweeters in the subsequent discussion around the ideas that underpin Twitter for professional learning. Muireann’s presentation and a video snippet from it are available below:
Mary Roche spoke about some self-study action research she and Molly Daly have carried out in MIC St. Patrick’s Campus, Thurles where they examined their practice in relation to a team-teaching and PBL approach to their Education Foundations module. Mary and Molly hope to present a paper on this work at the forthcoming TEPE conference in MIC.
Our final input of the day was given by Jane O’Connell. Jane told everyone about our friends in the Collaborative Action Research Network, CARN and encouraged people to become members. Jane is a member of the CARN co-ordinating group and described eloquently what CARN is and how people can participate. See more about CARN at https://www.carn.org.uk/
The next NEARI-meet will take place in September in Dublin.
Time to register for NEARImeet April 22nd!
If you would like to attend the next NEARI-meet on 22 April, please register your intention to attend by emailing Cornelia at cornelia.connolly@dkit.ie before Tuesday April 18th please.
NEARI at ESAI 22 April in UCC
Would you like to join us for the next meeting of the Network for Educational Action Research in Ireland (NEARI)? You can see some of our ideas at http://eari.ie. NEARI is for everyone interested in any aspect of action research/ reflective practice. We are an independent, non-profit organisation and our members are a cross-sectoral group. We do not charge a membership fee.
All are welcome to this opportunity to meet up and network with other action researchers on 22nd April, at University College, Cork. On this occasion we have been invited to offer a symposium as part of the ESAI annual conference, on the Saturday morning. The timeframe is only 11/2 hours so we will be offering just a sample of what generally happens at a NEARI meet, but hope to attract other interested educators to join the Network.
The theme we have chosen for this NEARI meet is : “The relationship between Values and Research as a lived activity.” Please feel free to share this advert with anyone you know who may be interested in any aspect of action research, reflective practice, critical reflection and/or improving practice.
If you would like to attend our NEARI event,
- Anyone attending ESAI ONLY to participate in the NEARI-Meet, can do so free of cost; but please contact us beforehand so we can issue you with a NEARI badge. (Please confirm your attendance by emailing me, cornelia.connolly@dkit.ie)
- Anyone wanting to go to NEARI and the Teaching Council event immediately beforehand, will need to register on the ESAI site, to attend the Conference for the Saturday WORKSHOP ONLY rate (€15€) Register at: http://esai.ie/conference-
2017-registration/
- Lastly, if a NEARI network member wishes to attend the full conference (Thursday evening to Saturday close), then please register at the Associate Member rate even if not associate members, (thanks to the generosity of ESAI)
Schedule for this NEARI event:
11.30 Introduction and welcome to NEARI Meet
11.45 Round Robin
Short presentations by action researchers followed by open discussion
12.55 Discussion around the next NEARI-meet: where, when and what theme?
13.00 Conclusion and thanks
Save the date for the next NEARI-meet: 22 April 2017
The next NEARI-meeting will take place on April 22 at 11.30am in University College Cork.
We are delighted to have been invited to run this NEARI-meet alongside ESAI 2017 which is taking place in UCC 20-22 April.
Inside Education Interview with Pip Bruce Ferguson
Inside Education is a weekly radio programme on 103.2 Dublin City FM in the Dublin area with live streaming on www.dublincityfm.ie. You can hear it every Wednesday live at 20:30 (Dublin time) or on podcast at http://www.insideed.com and from http://seandelaney.com/podcasts/.
In the following interviews with Sean Delaney, we hear Pip Bruce Ferguson, a founding member of NEARI, speaking about:
Why she found primary teaching difficult
Self development through her career
The influence of Paolo Freire on her thinking
Applying Freire to education
How she got involved in staff development at university level
How the process of staff development works
The flipped classroomChanging the research culture of a higher education institution
Action research
The network of educational action research Ireland.
What counts as research?
NEARI-meet 17 September 2016, Maynooth University
A very invigorating NEARI-meet was held in Maynooth University on Saturday, 17 September 2016.
It began with a fishbowl discussion around the purpose of action research with formal inputs being provided by Tom Cosgrove and Máirín Glenn.
There followed a very interesting and thought-provoking presentation by Aoife Titley on her current research on intercultural education and inclusion.
The final section of the day involved some amazing newly qualified teachers (NQTs) outlining the action research projects they undertook as part of their final year teaching placement from the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education at Maynooth University. They were: Robert Quinn, Alison Murphy, Kevin Maher and Louise Mahon.
Some snippets from the presentations are available below.
All at NEARI would like to express their thanks to Aoife, Ruth and Seamie from Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education at Maynooth University for providing us with a great venue for our NEARI-meet.
Our next meeting will take place in January on the theme of dialogue.
Tom’s presentation
A snippet from Tom’s presentation
from Máirín’s PechaKucha
Aoife’s presentation on her research on intercultural education and inclusion.
Alison’s project on offering children task-based choices to differentiate for children’s preferred learning styles.
Kevin speaking about his use of Minecraft to increase motivation.
Louise outlines her use of Readers’ Theatre to improve fluency in reading.
