Welcome to the School of Education, nui galway

Welcome to the website of the School of Education, NUI Galway. The School of Education is a dynamic and innovative constituent school of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI Galway, with an established national and international profile in teaching and educational research. 
A general introduction to the School, its academic programmes and research expertise is provided below. The menu on the left links to further information about our research, teaching and civic engagement activity, and to recent news, events and achievements of the staff and students of the School of Education. Thank you for visiting us online.

The Mission of the School of Education is:

• to enhance Irish education and therewith Irish culture, economy and society, through the concurrent,
  consecutive and continuing professional development of educators and teachers;
• to engage in research that contributes to educational development, innovation and excellence:
  locally, regionally, nationally and internationally (through transnational projects and networks);
• to serve as a resource to our local educational community and as an agent for change within
  the wider arena of educational policy and practice.

Academic Programmes and Research

The School of Education offers a range of initial teacher education programmes for pre-service, post-primary teachers, and continuing professional development and educational research programmes for teachers and educators across sectors: primary, secondary and tertiary.

At graduate level, in consecutive, initial teacher education for the post-primary sector, the School provides the Professional Diploma in Education (PDE) and the Dioplóma Gairmiúil san Oideachas  (DGO), for education through the medium of Irish. 

In collaboration with the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics (NUIG), the School of Education offers a concurrent, undergraduate teacher education degree: the B.A. Mathematics and Education, which qualifies graduates to teach Mathematics and Applied Mathematics to honours Leaving Certificate level in post-primary schools. This programme, which enrolled its first students in 2008-2009, is unique in Ireland and internationally in terms of its specialist focus on the mathematical sciences, and mathematics and applied mathematics pedagogies.
 
For the continuing professional development of experienced, practising educators, the School of Education offers a postgraduate diploma in Special Educational Needs (supported by the Department of Education and Skills), and the Master of Education, which combines coursework with thesis research.

The School of Education facilitates several modes of research study at Master (MLitt) and PhD levels; there are full-time and part-time options available for both. The School's areas of research interest and expertise include educational disadvantage, diversity and social justice; civic engagement and community-based research; mathematics education; content and language integrated learning (CLIL); inclusive learning environments and special educational needs; gender and education; anti-bullying and bullying prevention; and science, technology, engineering and mathematics outreach (STEM).
In collaboration with the School of Psychology (NUIG), the School of Education has this year introduced its first structured doctorate, in educational innovation and technology. The Structured PhD Learning Sciences aims to support frontier research in technology-enhanced learning.

Several School of Education PhD students also undertake their doctoral research within the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies’ interdisciplinary, structured PhD programme.
 
Further to its established local, regional and national profile, the School of Education is also well positioned internationally, having developed strong transnational collaborations, in research and teaching, for example: the Erasmus Intensive Programme BEAM: Building European Identity through Spirit, Sense and Meaning. This multilateral European project involves research and teaching collaboration between the School of Education, NUIG and teacher education institutions and universities from countries throughout the EU. In February 2010, the School of Education hosted the first CLIL agus an Teagasc Trí Ghaeilge (CLIL and Teaching through Irish) conference, in partnership with Gaelscoileanna Teo. This international conference focused on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and the teaching of subjects on the second-level curriculum through the medium of Irish, raising the awareness of CLIL methods, strategies and current research.

Please click on the links in the side navigation bar on the left, for further information about the School of Education.

The following University link provides information regarding Registration, FAQ’s, Dates, Online Registration, Fee Queries and General Queries (Student Information Desk) and may be useful: http://www.nuigalway.ie/registration/

Educational Resources - Please click on the link to our Educational Technology Centre's public Online Resources Library to access resources related to education.

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The School of Education, NUI Galway wishes to remind prospective students that the closing date is fast approaching for the combined Post Graduate Diploma Programme of Continuing Professional Development for Teachers involved in Learning Support and Special Education 2013/2014.

Application forms and further information are available as a circular issued from the Department of Education and Skills and posted on their website http://www.education.ie/ in January of the academic year prior to entry.

Please click on the link to access circular 0001/2013 for the 2013 - 14 programme.
Closing date for receipt of application forms is March 1^st, 2013.

Please note: The School of Education, NUI Galway is not responsible for the content contained on external websites linked from any of our web pages.

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