Episodes
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Programme 339, Sustainability and Disruption in Education (31-10-18)
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Theme music composed and arranged by David Vesey.
On this week's programme I speak to Arjen Wals from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands where he is Professor of Transformative Learning for Socioecological Sustainability/UNESCO Chair. He was a keynote speaker at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Teacher Education of Europe, which was held in Gävle in Sweden in August. Among the topics we discussed were the following:
- Why a sustainable approach to teaching is important
- Why teachers alone cannot bring about sustainable living
- How to promote sustainable choices in education
- How sustainable choices may vary from one place to another
- Why making teachers more accountable discourages them from taking risks
- CSI – Critical Sustainability Investigations (example with old mobile phones)
- Students taking photos of things that bother them in their environment and sharing them
- “Alternative” pedagogies (experimental learning, embodied learning, place-based learning, discovery learning, problem-based learning)
- The risk of having future people in power acting in an eco-totalitarian manner if sustainability issues are not addressed while time is available
- What Policymakers can do to make education more sustainable
During our conversation Professor Wals referred to Fairphone.
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Programme 338, David Powell on Teacher Education (24-10-18)
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
Today I speak to Dr. David Powell from the University of Huddersfield about teacher education. I met up with David at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe. Among the topics we discuss are:
- The soul of teacher education
- The apprenticeship model of learning to teach
- Observing teaching using the "Viewing Frame"
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Programme 337, Irish Primary Teacher, pt 2 (17-10-18)
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
This week I'm delighted to bring you the second part of my interview with Niamh Dunphy, the teacher behind the blog and social media resource Irish Primary Teacher. Among the topics we talk about on the programme this week are:
- Plans for developing Irish Primary Teacher
- Where she gets her lesson ideas
- Using the store to encourage users to remain on the website
- How she reviews products for the Reviews section
- Clothing and teaching
- What she likes most and finds most challenging about teaching
- Differences between teaching in England and teaching in Ireland
- Her favourite subject to teach
- What she has learned from teaching to date
- What are schools for?
- A teacher who had a significant impact on her
- Who inspires her
- Why she finds Instagram better than books
- A change she would make in her current school
- And much more!
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Programme 336, Irish Primary Teacher, pt 1 (10-10-18)
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Niamh Dunphy, the person behind the hugely popular Irish Primary Teacher, blog, Facebook page and Instagram account.
Among the topics we discuss in this first part of our interview are:
- Why she set up the blog, and pages on Instagram and Facebook
- Her positive and negative experiences of teaching in England
- What she knows about her audience
- Dividing content among various social media platforms
- How teachers support each other through social media
- What posts are most popular
- Dealing with trolls and negative comments
- How much time it takes
Wednesday Oct 03, 2018
Programme 335, Cracking the College Code (3-10-18)
Wednesday Oct 03, 2018
Wednesday Oct 03, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Catherine O'Connor about making the transition from post-primary school to college. Catherine is author of the book, Cracking the College Code: Making the Most of the First Year College Experience.
To get your own copy of Catherine O’Connor’s book Cracking the College Code: Making the most of the first year college experience, you can enter the competition on the programme this week. Either send your name and where you’re listening from, by e-mail to insideeducation@dublincityfm.ie. Or else retweet the link to this week’s programme on Twitter and include the hashtag #collegecode. Enter by midnight, Irish time on Monday, 8th October 2018.