Event Type: Lecture, Debate, Discussion or Talk

Transforming Education Project: An Overview

Join the IEF for an overview of Ulster University’s ‘Transforming Education’ project along with an introduction to the briefing papers that have been produced to date to stimulate debate regarding our education system.

The UU Transforming Education papers have highlighted a number of potential inefficiencies regarding the education system in Northern Ireland.

This short conversation with Dr Stephen Roulston from Ulster University  aims to help stimulate and encourage discussion and debate on our current system of education.

RSVP via email:  Jessica@ief.org.uk

A Vision for Education in the 21st Century

Join in on IEF’s Zoom event as we bring together practitioners from across the voluntary, youth and community sectors to discuss visions for education in our society in the 21st century.

This session will encourage discussion and debate on our current education system, including how we can ensure that children and young people from different backgrounds are educated together as part of building Good Relations and how this can assist our society’s reconciliation process, as well as the part the community and voluntary sector can play in this.

A brief presentation by Ulster University researchers Stephen Roulston and Matt Milliken will be followed by small group discussions and a plenary.

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How They See Us

‘How They See use’ is a project which investigates how people from different backgrounds navigate their lives.

The project explores how people believe society sees them as an individual, and what labels and stereotypes have been placed upon them based on how they look, their race, their ethnicity of where they are “from”.

We have interviewed five amazing individuals from different cultural backgrounds, who shared their experiences of what it is like being a person of colour in NI and what their experiences have been like growing up here.

We talked about the struggles of navigating identity, representation, grief, belonging, race, discrimination and self-love & acceptance.

For this online event, we will have a panel discussion with a few of the people that took part in the project.

Launch of the ‘International Directory of Joint Protestant and Roman Catholic Schools’

A new 2021 edition of the International Directory of Joint Protestant-Catholic Schools is being published by the NI Council for Integrated Education.

This online event will provide an overview of the Directory and include input from a practitioner involved in running a Jointly Managed school. Dr Michael Wardlow (former CEO of the Council for Integrated Education and former Chief Equality Commissioner) will provide a reflection on how Jointly Managed Schools could contribute to reconciliation locally.

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A talk on The History of Boomhall

A Talk on Boomhall, a Georgian Villa, Stables, Walled Garden and Landscape Parkland occupied in the past by Major Merchant Families engaged in the Emigration and Goods Trades with North America, Caribbean and the Baltic, as well as being major players in administration of India and South Africa.

RCN commend CRC in Good Relations Week 2020

RCN’s Chair John Waddell and Director Kate Clifford commended the Community Relations Council for its support to RCN and the peace process over the last 30 years as part of Good Relations Week 2020.

Good Relations at EastSide Learning

A video of members of the Early Years Network from East Belfast giving an update on their Good Relations work and plans to establish a Good Relations Charter in east Belfast this year.

For more information on the project please contact Rachel Skillen via email: rachelskillen@eastsidepartnership.com