Episodes
Monday Apr 29, 2013
Programme 173, Fionnuala Waldron on Teaching History (28-4-13)
Monday Apr 29, 2013
Monday Apr 29, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, Dr. Fionnuala Waldron from St. Patrick's College discusses the teaching of history.
Sunday Apr 21, 2013
Programme 172, Fionnuala Waldron on Teacher Education (21-4-13)
Sunday Apr 21, 2013
Sunday Apr 21, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Dr. Fionnuala Waldron, who is Dean of Education in St. Patrick's College talks about the new book she co-edited, about teacher education and about the integration of subjects across the curriculum. The book is called Re-imagining Initial Teacher Education: Perspectives on Transformation and is published by The Liffey Press.
Sunday Apr 14, 2013
Programme 171, Education in and to Avoid Prison (14-4-13)
Sunday Apr 14, 2013
Sunday Apr 14, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme former governor of Mountjoy Prison, John Lonergan, discusses what the education system could do to help keep people out of prison and he discusses education within prisons. This programme coincides with the screening of the television documentary on RTÉ 1, John Lonergan's Circus.
Sunday Apr 07, 2013
Sunday Apr 07, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme, I speak to Professor Brian Mac Craith, President of Dublin City University, about the Séamus Heaney Lecture he gave in St. Patrick's College, titled Envisioning the Future of Education, and about his work as a university president today.
Sunday Mar 31, 2013
Sunday Mar 31, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to the general secretaries of the three teaching unions to preview their respective conferences which take place this week. I spoke to Pat King of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, Sheila Nunan of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation and John MacGabhann of the Teachers' Union of Ireland.