What the Critical and Feminist (C&F) Research Policy Analysis Stands For In 2021 UNESCO published the International Commission on the Futures of Education report, Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for...
Category - SIGs
Evidence-Informed Educational Policy and Practice SIG
Governments and supranational organizations are increasingly adopting approaches to enhance decision-making processes in publicly funded entities, including education. One prominent approach is to provide stakeholders, such as...
FETSIG (Further Education and Training SIG)
The FETSIG (Further Education and Training Special Interest Group) includes members from the HEIFET Forum who will provide the capability and capacity for research in FET settings and research on teaching adults that will be...
ESAI Teacher Diversity Honorary Special Interest Group (SIG)
Convenor: Dr. Elaine Keane, University of Galway Secretary/Treasurer: Dr. Rory Mc Daid, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin SIG Purpose: This new Special Interest Group (SIG) will convene a range of established and...
Curriculum Studies Special Interest Group
ESAI Curriculum Studies Special Interest Group Curriculum Studies SIG Maynooth University in collaboration with colleagues in Dublin City University (DCU), University of Limerick (UL), Mary Immaculate College, and Trinity College...
Inclusive Education
The Inclusive Education SIG was convened by Dr. Margaret Egan with partners, representing all HEIs in Ireland, including its current Executive Committee members, Dr. Kevin Cahill (UCC), Prof. Ml. Shevlin (TCD), Deirdre Forde...
Gender and Sexuality Research in Education SIG
The Gender and Sexuality Research in Education SIG aims to provide a forum for researchers and educators to showcase and celebrate the important, interdisciplinary and innovative work in this quickly expanding international...
Educational Action Research Special Interest Group
Network for Educational Action Research Ireland SIG – NEARI SIG The SIG will focus on: strengthening the rigour of action research for accreditation and enhancing institutional standards ethical issues, in particular on...
Biology Educational Special Interest Group (SIG)
The purpose of this Biology Education SIG is to bring together representations from different stakeholders in biology education (teachers, scientists, teacher educators, educational researchers, professional development bodies)...
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 2020-2022
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) at ESAI Following a call for proposals in late 2019, ESAI was delighted to support some new Special Interest Groups (SIGs). These SIGs were established with a view to supporting current and future...
Call for proposals for new ESAI Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
The Educational Studies Association of Ireland is pleased to launch a new Call for Proposals to form Special Interest Groups (SIGs) with a view to supporting current and future practitioners and researchers of education in...
Curriculum Studies SIG
Curriculum Studies special interest group led by Majella Dempsey (Maynooth University) with partners Anne Looney and Audrey Doyle (Dublin City University) Damian Murchan, (Trinity College, Dublin) and John O’Reilly (University...
Inclusive Education SIG
The founding members, representing all HEIs in Ireland, would like call upon those interested, to join the newly formed ESAI Inclusive Education SIG. Our SIG aims to clearly highlight an educational research focus and provide a...
Professional Development in Higher Education Teaching (PD-HET) SIG
The purpose of this SIG is to provide a forum for discussion about the professional development of those who teach in Higher Education (HE). The SIG particularly welcomes HE staff who have a teaching role as well as educational...
Teacher Education: Critical Pedagogy and Praxis for Social Justice SIG
The purpose of coming together in the SIG is to create a forum to explore and share theoretically and practically the challenges, possibilities and failures around critical pedagogies for social justice in teacher education; the...
Values-based Practitioner Action Research SIG
This SIG draws on the work of Network of Educational Action Research Ireland (NEARI), a non-funded, cross-sectoral network, serving the needs of current and emerging educational action researchers. Why join VPAR? Practitioner...
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Following a call for proposals in late 2019, ESAI is delighted to announce the formation of five new Special Interest Groups (SIGs). These SIGs have been established with a view to supporting current and future practitioners and...