Ubuntu Network

Ubuntu Network Action Research Projects

To develop our understanding of how DE/ESD can be integrated into initial teacher education, the Ubuntu Network supports an action research methodology. Calls for Expressions of Interest are places annually. The projects below have resulted from such calls. Some of these projects are complete, others are in progress.

Projects to be undertaken in the 2008-2009/10 academic years will be posted here shortly.

2007-2008

Development Education in Specific Subject Disciplines

Project 1: Integrating DE/ESD into the teaching of Home Economics at St. Angela's College with a particular focus on ethical and ecological consumerism

Project 2: Promoting Critical Awareness of Global and Social Justice in Theology and RE (Mater Dei)

Project 3: Integrating DE Issues and Concepts into Art and Design (College of Art and Design, LIT)

Project 4: Facilitating student teachers to identify, assess and evaluate how Development Education (and ESD) issues and concepts can be practically implemented into the Art and Design syllabus (National College of Art and Design)

Project 5: DE/ESD through the teaching of English Pedagogy - a focus on personal, social and cultural literacy (UL)

Project 6: Exploring Biology as a Subject Discipline - Opportunities for integrating DE/ESD

Project 7: Nature of Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity (NODI) - implications for the Integration of DE/ESD into ITE

Student Teachers’ Attitudes to Development Education

Project 8: A Study of Student Teachers' Perspectives on an Existing DE Programme in UCD

Project 9: A Review of DE Resources in Teaching (NUIM)

Project 10: An Introduction to Teaching DE/ESD Issues and Concepts through Start Teach - 1st Year Degree Students in UL

Project 11: DE/ESD delivered through the teaching of Active Learning Methodologies - the intervention and its impact on students' TP experience (UL)

Project 12: Assessing the role of prior experience in development on the attitudes of student teachers on the PGDE in TCD

Relating the Multicultural Classroom to Development Education

Project 13: A Forum for Exploring Intercultural and DE issues in Secondary Schools (UCC)

Project 14: Exploring Teacher Education Students’ Views & Experiences in the Context of Increasing Student Diversity in Post-primary Education (NUIG)

Project 15: The Polish school in Cork: recognising Polish voices in Irish education (UCC)

Project 16: Interrogating inclusivity in the teaching of PE in UL: ‘that’s just their culture’(UL)

Project 17: DE/ESD and inclusivity - relating it to Adventure Education

Developing Key Skills and Building Capacity relating to Development Education

Project 18: Emotional Intelligence and Teacher Education (UL)

Project 19: Relating the Development of Problem Solving Skills in Student Teachers to Institutional Culture (St. Angela's and UCC)

Project 20: Participatory process and Justice orientated Thinking in Large Group Lectures (UL)

Project 21: Developing Capacity Through Engagement with a DE Book/Film Club (UCC)

Project 22: Creating a Development Education Community of Practice among teacher educators in Ireland (UCC and UCD)

Project 23: Provision of DE Presentations and Media through the Web (TCD)

Project 24: A Forum for Sharing DE-related Knowledge within UCC (UCC)

2008-2009

Project 25: Promoting Critical Awareness of Global and Social Justice in Theology, Religious Education and the Humanities: A Contribution to Teacher education for Sustainable Development (Mater Dei)

Project 26: The integration of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE) initial teacher education (ITE) and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes: research and curriculum development (CDVEC CDU/ UCD/NUI Galway)

Project 27: Developing an on-line Resource Package for Art Teachers on the Integration of Development Education issues and concepts into the Art, Craft and Design Post-Primary Curriculum (NCAD)

Project 28: Development issues through film (NUIM)

Project 29: Exploring the ethical dilemma around sustainability for initial teacher education students of Business and Religious Studies (Tipperary Institute)

Project 30: Partners in Assessment: can Self and Peer Assessment improve self-direction, motivation and reflection in learners, and is it viable for all classrooms and all learners? (DCU)

Project 31: The Polish school in Cork: recognising Polish voices in Irish education (continuation of previous work) (UCC)

Project 32: An Exploration of Development Education in the English Classroom (UL)

Project 33: New Technologies in Digital Media- integrating DE into Art and Design through the theme of materialism (LSAD)

Project 34: Developing Intercultural Awareness within the Graduate Diploma in Guidance Counselling (UL)

Project 35: Pedagogy Workshops for Language Student Teachers (UL)

Project 36: Nature of Disciplines and Interdisciplinary Knowledge (NODI)- Integration of Development Education into Subject Areas (UL)

36 a: Technology and ESD- a study of opportunities for integration of ESD b understanding the nature of disciplines (UL)

36 b: Integration of Development Education into Subject Areas (Home Economics) within Teacher Education (St Angela's )

36 c: Biology as a discipline- a study of opportunities for integration of ESD into the teaching of biology on the B.Sc. Ed programme (UL)