Information for Stakeholders
TPJ’s engagement with stakeholders will be an ongoing process evolving throughout the longitudinal research project 2024-30. Stakeholder engagement in the TPJ study is organised in a variety of ways, i.e. system-wide Teacher Education stakeholders, TPJ Stakeholder Advisory Panel and the TPJ Teacher Advisory Panel. These groups will serve overlapping as well as complementary roles over the course of the project.
System-wide TE stakeholders
The involvement of system-wide TE stakeholders will offer valuable insights into the dynamics of teachers’ professional learning and development and will include both consultative and research participant roles. The TPJ Stakeholder Advisory Panel will play a pivotal role in guiding all phases of the study, particularly in shaping effective communication strategies. The TPJ Teacher Advisory Panel involve contribution directly from teachers who are in their first decade of teaching following ITE. In the case of all stakeholders a diverse group of participants will provide a broad range of perspectives to inform TPJ across the study life-cycle.
Research Design
TPJ study is an accelerated longitudinal mixed-methods study focused on understanding the dynamics of teacher learning and development from the final year of initial teacher education (ITE) through the first nine years of teachers’ work within classrooms and schools in the context of the wider education system at primary, post primary and further education (FE) sectors in Ireland.
Ethics & Data Protection
The Teachers’ Professional Journeys study Research ethics approval is being undertaken via the UL Education and Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee. The study is compliant with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that protects the personal data of student-teachers, teachers and school principals and other research participants that are involved in the study. The joint data controllers for TPJ are the Teaching Council and the Department of Education. The data processors in the study are UL, ESRI, and MIC.
Funders & Stakeholders
Funders
The Teachers’ Professional Journeys study is jointly funded by the Teaching Council and the Department of Education on behalf of the Government of Ireland.
