An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Sunday Jun 29, 2014
Sunday Jun 29, 2014
In this podcast I interview eminent educational sociologist, Professor Mark Berends about his career to date. He is a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame. Among the topics we discuss are ability grouping, school choice, Catholic schools, New American schools, his vision of a good school and other topics related to sociology of education.
Sunday Jun 22, 2014
Sunday Jun 22, 2014
In this podcast, Professor Darcia Narvaez from the University of Notre Dame discusses the topic of moral education. She mentions the following two websites in the course of the programme which contain materials which are useful for teachers who wish to work on this topic with their students: https://cee.nd.edu/curriculum/curriculum1.shtml and http://www.devstu.org/research-child-development-project.