Research Handbook Publication Announcement

HERC is pleased to welcome the publication of the Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements. This Handbook is edited by a research team from the University of Bologna, Italy, and comes in 2 Volumes of 1155 pages, published by IGI Global (Hershey, Pennsylvania (USA)- an international publishing company specialising in publication of books and journals in over 200 topics related to cutting edge research in education, science, medicine and technology developments.

Director of HERC, Professor Maria Slowey and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Ekaterina Kozina contributed a chapter on the topic ‘New Knowledge - New Learning?: Curriculum Change in Higher Education and Academic Engagement in the Bologna Process in Ireland’. The chapter discusses a number of examples of collaborative initiatives aimed at enhancing student learning across an alliance involving eight institutions of higher education in the Dublin City region. These developments are analysed in the wider context of the Bologna Process.

Additionally, another chapter was co-authored by Dr. Ekaterina Kozina, Dr Aidan Seery and Dr Andrew Loxley (colleagues from the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin), entitled: The Role of Teacher Self-Strategies in First Year Teacher Experience and Teacher Socialisation. This contribution focuses on the findings of a research on professional experiences of primary teachers as they progress through their first year of professional practice. 

The Handbook includes more than 70 high quality research-oriented international contributions on the broad range of topics including: Assistive Technologies; Collaborative Language Learning; Ecology of Learning; Educational Initiatives; Interdisciplinary Learning; Multimedia; Online Collaborative Resources; Socio-Constructivist Learning.  This Handbook collects the most significant educational achievements carried out by teachers, school administrators and local associations working together with public institutions, from primary school to university. This book is aimed at those, involved in improving the education system: scholars, researchers, social scientists, policy makers and school and university administrators.