This board game as a rights-based method for data collection and the findings we got from its implementation demonstrate play can be a valuable methodological approach in classroom-based educational research.
#EdChatIE #ParticipatoryResearch #PlayfulResearch #VARiEGroup #ChildRights #EdChat
The most rewarding (and fun!) research method I have co-created so far has to be this board game that we used in the Children's School Lives study to explore children's experiences of learning in school.
The paper that describes the co-creation process is here👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New Today with Jiani Ma and team:
Engaging youth in systems thinking for active recreation: piloting a Collective Intelligence approach
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#CollectiveIntelligence #SystemsThinking
Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪
This weekend I gave a presentation to a group of mostly college-aged folks and had a little line at the beginning of my slides that described it as an "AI-free presentation made by a human, for humans" and I had to pause for clapping at that part
you love to see it
Exactly 💯
"Our lecturers are very supportive and approachable, every student feels they belong" - Current student
What an endorsement at today's webinar for prospective students where I talked about the MSc in Education, Children & Youth, our innovative research-based programme.
hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...
"Empathy is a key element of our education system, one that we are trying to find ways of teaching to students. A simple example of showing empathy is to listen to students and let your interactions with them be led by their needs, not your own ideology."
Great piece by @conorsmurf.bsky.social
Abstract painting of circles within circles in different colours with a vertical line coming from the centre, all against a cream background
Hilma af Klint (1862 – 1944) Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among, if not the first major abstract works in Western art history #Womensart
También me lo han recomendado mucho, me avisa cuáles son sus impresiones Profesor. Un abrazo enorme!
It was great to present at #CIES2026 with my dear colleague @suegollifer.bsky.social the findings of our comparative study on how Initial Teacher Education programmes embed the aims of education established in the UNCRC (Art 29).
#ChildRights #AcademicSky #VARiEResearch #RightsEducation
My lecture today was on Peace & education and it is the first time in years that students were simply unable to imagine a world without violence.
The violent and genocidal times we are living in have eroded hope, are slowly but steadily limiting our imagination of better futures.
#HigherEd
A very short introduction to the project Holistic Sustainable Wellbeing in Higher Education - what it is and why it matters?
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#academicsky #HigherEd #SustainablePedagogies
📘 "Decolonizing epistemologies and worldviews in education: new ways of knowing in education and policy" ed. by Michael Kariwo & Chouaib El Bouhali
Read Maarit Jaakkola's #BookReview here 👇
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
@maaritjii.bsky.social
@routledgebooks.bsky.social
The quest to build a better AI tutor
It’s easy to get swept up in the hype about artificial intelligence tutors. But the evidence so far suggests caution. Some studies have found that chatbot tutors can backfire because students lean on them too heavily, get spoonfed solutions and fail to absorb…
Today I join the youngest members of the @ucddublin.bsky.social community in our fundraising for cancer.
I will be walking with a group of 4-5 years old + ECEC professionals from our crèche supporting children's rights to participate in their community.
www.relayforlife.ie/fundraisers/...
🚨 Today, we launch Report 9 from the #CSLstudy, ‘Experiences of the Transition to Post-Primary Schooling’
🔗 Download the report from our website at: cslstudy.ie/downloads/CS...
🧵 Read about some of the key findings below –
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We are delighted to welcome the next presenter in the #VARiEResearch Seminar Series 'Understanding the World(s) of Children' on young people's participation in civic and research spaces
Join us in person at the School of Education UCD or online by registering at the following link: lnkd.in/dSmTznan
Applications now open for this year’s EUI summer course on human rights.
Two weeks of thinking through the theme of ‘Imagining Planetary Legal Orders’ with convenors @tim-lindgren.bsky.social , Arnulf Becker Lorca, faculty, artists and activists. Apply!
www.eui.eu/apply?id=ael...
O'Reilly Hall looking fabulous 👌🏼
Walking around campus in Spring is one of the best perks of the job.
@ucddublin.bsky.social
We're delighted to interview Manfred Liebel and Philip Meade about their new book -
Adultism: A Critical Introduction to Discrimination Against Children:
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
This is a fantastic book for children (and adults!) to learn about social movements & protests through history but also a great resource on activism repertoire as it showcases individual + collective actions that can be used today in current fights for #SocialJustice #ClimateAction and #HumanRights
Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You can’t talent your way to writing. It’s built. It’s a built thing. It’s a made thing. So the real thing you got to do is you got to come back to that bad writing and you’ve got to revise.”
Like James Baldwin said, “I’m not a writer. I’m a re-writer.”
When policymakers cannot 'find the evidence they need' to make decisions, it should not be understood that the problem lies with Universities or researchers.
For me it seems that the problem with engaged research is in the 'bridges', and while researchers must help build them it is not their role.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
A hand holding the flyer from the event of UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, Research and Engagement Day
Last week the College of Social Sciences and Law at @ucddublin.bsky.social celebrated its anniversary with a research & engagement day.
The event brought together academics and policy makers to discuss how to address major social challenges through research.
My 🔑 take aways and highlights:
The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard is hiring two Postdoctoral Fellows #AEFP2026 check it out! apply.interfolio.com/183181
"Casual Democracy: News, Participation, and Deliberation in Local Communities Dominated by Social Media"
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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