Highlights of NEARImeet 23 April 2016 at NUIG
The last NEARI-meet was held in NUIG. It began with the usual informal coffees and chats. But, by 11.00...
Category: reflective practice
New Book: Introduction to Critical Reflection and Action for Teacher Researchers
We are delighted to announce the safe arrival of our new book Introduction to Critical Reflection and Action for...
Establishing a new network
Yesterday, the inaugural meeting of the Network for Educational Action Research in Ireland took place in a flurry of...
Education Symposium and Book Launch in St. Patrick’s College, Thurles
Watch the education students in St Patrick’s College, Thurles speak with passion on Irish TV about how they use...
Action research: an intervention or a potentially transformative process ?
A teaching colleague recently told me how he had undertaken a highly successful action research project with his maths...
Exciting new publication
(Image from http://www.amazon.co.uk/Developing-Childrens-Critical-Thinking-Picturebooks/dp/0415727723/) Mary Roche’s new book Developing Children’s Critical Thinking through Picturebooks: A guide for primary and...
Catching the moon in 2014
I’ve been thinking about the amazing capacity children have to ask questions…and comparing it to the fairly weak ability...
Teachers taking control: a new vision for professional development
“challenge on and for individual teachers to take more personal responsibility as professionals, for undertaking the professional development they...
To teach critical thinking
Fromm (1979) worried that people had lost the ability to think for themselves and had become used to collective...
Invitation to those who have engaged in classroom research through self-study action research
Why not share your story here and contribute to a professional conversation and a community of enquiry? Some responses:...