Newcastle University

Maynooth University is one of Ireland’s fastest growing Universities, and has a strong tradition of teacher development, both in-service and pre-service. Froebel College of Education is an associate college of NUI, Maynooth and will move to the Maynooth campus in 2013 and become the Froebel Department of Primary & Early Childhood Education. Reflecting the philosophy of Friedrich Froebel, the College is deeply committed to emulating his values and principles of ‘child-centred’ education. The department’s research activities includes the management of diverse network of researchers and educational practitioners; including the action-based research network of Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century (TL21), Intel project on maths development with student teachers, Dissolving Boundaries Project, Discover Sensors Project, Asia Europe Classroom and Combat Disease of Poverty Consortium are all research networks of schools and teachers across Europe, Asia and Africa (see http://www.nuim.ie/academic/education/Research.shtml).