Episodes
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's podcast I interview the editors of a book titled Challenging perceptions of Africa in schools: Critical approaches to global justice education. They are my colleague Dr. Barbara O'Toole, from the Marino Institute of Education and Dr. Ebun Joseph and Dr. David Nyaluke from University College Dublin. Among the topics we discussed on the programme are the following:
- How our education system is focused on a Eurocentric view of people from Africa
- Chimamanda and the Danger of a single story
- What teachers are doing well when presenting Africa to their students
- How history is taught impacts on the past and on life today
- The need to hear the story of Africa from a different perspective
- How our system encourages us to perform racism
- The benefits of reading African authors to see how they represent Africa
- The need to present a balanced story of Africa
- Why discussing Africa with a deficit perspective needs to be balanced with a discussion of its strengths
- Negative portrayal of Africa in Irish primary school textbooks
- The need for unlearning: self-questioning and reflection
- What critical race theory is (a theoretical framework and an analytical framework)
- White Teacher by Vivian Gussin Paley
- Knowledge justice
- The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
- Books by Ali Mazrui.
- How Europe is portrayed in African education
- Decolonising education and Alice Feldman
- How this affects every subject across the curriculum
- Just Connections, Just Trade resource for teachers
- The importance to develop a race consciousness and how race impacts on people’s experiences
- There is a stereotype in all our work – we need to think about how we can erase them
- Being in a crisis of knowledge and a crisis of solutions
- Moving to a mindset of social justice can permeate every aspect of a teacher’s teaching
- Relative size of Africa compared to Europe and the United States
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's episode I speak to Professor Yong Zhao from the School of Education at the University of Kansas. Among the topics we discuss on the episode are the following:
- We currently have the opportunity to reimagine education without schools: Do we have to do these subjects? Do we have to teach this much?
- A good time to teach global understanding, empathy and competency
- Innovation in education
- The importance of having an entrepreneurial mindset
- The Digital Pencil
- Alternative ways of organising the education of young people
- Difficulty of finding like-minded people in a small school
- Globalisation as the “death of physical distance”
- Globalisation is localisation of global forces
- Implications of globalisation for teachers
- Why everyone should have a local identity and affirm the identities of others
- Your uniqueness can only become valuable when it’s valuable to others
- Why schools encourage people to be independent and selfish rather than interdependent
- Schools as a place to bring about a better society
- Students as job creators versus job hunters
- Enhancing entrepreneurship in students
- Unintended consequences of education policies
- PISA test scores and the illusions of excellence, science, progress.
- His experience of being educated in China
- The impact of technology on education
- To compete with a machine, a person must avoid becoming one!
- Be unique and great in your own way; understand yourself, your talents and virtues.
- "Creative" means identifying problems worth solving
- Empty creativity versus good creativity – the need to have a domain to excel in
- What schools should be for: a place to equalise community resources
- David Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle The Manufactured Crisis.
- David Berliner as a former guest on the podcast
- Diane Ravitch’s blog: https://dianeravitch.net/
- If we want a better life in the future, we need to help our children create a better life for us
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Podcast 385, New Educate Together CEO, Emer Nowlan (15-1-20)
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
This week I bring you an interview with the new Chief Executive Officer of Educate Together, Dr. Emer Nowlan in the week she takes up her new appointment. Among the topics we discuss are:
- Her career in education to date: becoming a PE teacher, running a language school in Portugal
- Doing a masters and doctorate in UCD
- Being project manager for setting up second level Educate Together schools
- Working on the Migrant Teacher Project
- Challenges faced by migrant teachers who wish to teach in Ireland
- Lessons learned from the Migrant Teacher Project to date
- Anticipating her new role as CEO of Educate Together
- Plans for establishing new Educate Together schools
- How Educate Together has evolved over the last 40 years
- What equality-based education looks like
- How to promote equality-based education without stereotyping
- Educate Together’s role as school patron
- Enrolment policies for schools
- The work of CEO in Educate Together
- Her priorities for her term as CEO
- Challenges facing the Educate Together sector
- Characteristics of a principal in an Educate Together school
- Facilitating denominational religious instruction in Educate Together Schools
She names some people whose work she admires.
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Programme 305, Literacy Association of Ireland Workshops (15-11-17)
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to three people who presented workshops at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. They were Claire Dunne from the Marino Institute of Education, Damien Quinn from seomraranga.com and Anne Burke from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Among the websites mentioned on the programme were:
Children's Literature Association of Ireland
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586750-bully
Wednesday Nov 19, 2014
Programme 196, Multicultural Education (19-11-14)
Wednesday Nov 19, 2014
Wednesday Nov 19, 2014
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week I hear about a new book by an Irish author which aimes to promote awareness of multicultural matters through picture books. The book is written by Dr. Anne Dolan of Mary Immaculate College and the title is You, Me and Diversity: Picture books for teaching development and intercultural education.
I also spoke to Dr. Clea Schmidt from the University of Manitoba and Dr. Antoinette Gagné of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
Sorry about the sound quality in some parts of this programme. I am using some new recording equipment and it's taking me a while to come to terms with it. Hopefully things will improve soon! Seán
Wednesday Oct 15, 2014
Programme 191, Maths Week, Religious Ed and Diversity in Teaching (15-10-14)
Wednesday Oct 15, 2014
Wednesday Oct 15, 2014
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Sheila Donegan about Maths Week, I spoke to Elaine Mahon about the National Religious Education Congress and I spoke to Elaine Keane and Manuela Heinz about Diversity in Initial Teacher Education.
Monday May 21, 2012
Programme 140, Photovoice - a research methodology (20-5-12)
Monday May 21, 2012
Monday May 21, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme Dr. Kevin Graziano of Nevada State College discusses how the research method photovoice can be used in education, especially with those whose voices are not always heard. He was in Ireland as a guest of DICE - Development and Intercultural Education within Initial Teacher Education for whom he gave a workshop on the use of documentary photography and storytelling in the classroom.
Wednesday Sep 21, 2011
Programme 107, Aostre Johnson on Education and Spirituality (18-9-11)
Wednesday Sep 21, 2011
Wednesday Sep 21, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News roundup by Barry Hennessy. On this programme Professor Aostre Johnson from St. Michael's College in Vermont discusses how spirituality can influence education.
Tuesday May 11, 2010
Programme 43, International Dimension of Irish Education & News (2-5-10)
Tuesday May 11, 2010
Tuesday May 11, 2010
Presented by Barry Hennessy Produced by Barry Hennessy and Seán Delaney The featured guest on the programme this week was Terry McParland from Enterprise Ireland who has specific responsibility for promoting Ireland as a destination for students from abroad. You can read more about this work at the Education Ireland website.
Wednesday Apr 21, 2010
Programme 41, Business language and education, & News (18-4-10)
Wednesday Apr 21, 2010
Wednesday Apr 21, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This programme features the address given by Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh from NUI Galway at the 2010 annual convention of the ASTI. In it he talks about how the language of business does not work well for education and about the role teachers can play in rebuilding trust in our society. Ruairí Quinn, Labour Party Spokesperson on education speaks about some of the educational priorities from their annual conference.