New Perspectives in Science Education

Miriam is a lecturer in Science Education working with pre-service primary teachers in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. She has an undergraduate degree in biology and has taught science at Junior Cycle and Biology at Senior Cycle at second level for twenty years. Miriam has worked as a seconded teacher in three support services with responsibility for teacher induction, continuous professional development of science teachers and was team leader for the current curricular reform in Junior Cycle Science from 2014-2015.

Miriam completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Cooperative Learning at Trinity College, Dublin in 2008 before going on to complete a Master of Education degree with a thesis focus on science education in 2009. In 2014 Miriam was awarded a PhD in education from Mary Immaculate College where she now lectures on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Research areas are in science pedagogy, inequality issues related to social class and gender in education and the cultural aspects of school experience.