An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Monday Apr 30, 2012
Monday Apr 30, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Professor Jim Spillane, from Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy in the United States, who is a graduate of St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra talks to me about organisational routines, Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life, and about how educational research could be improved in Ireland to have a greater influence on policy. Jim is the principal investigator on the Distributed Leadership research project.
Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In this programme I interviewed three keynote speakers at the 2012 annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network (IPPN). My guests were Gerry Murphy, President of the IPPN, Professor Michael Fullan of OISE at the University of Toronto, and film producer and education thinker, Lord David Puttnam.
Monday Dec 05, 2011
Monday Dec 05, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Reporter Sinéad Burke On this programme the former president of the University of Limerick, Dr. Ed Walsh, discusses the early days of NIHE Limerick. The broadcast was the second part of an interview with Dr. Walsh to mark the publication of Upstart: Friends, Foes and Founding a University. Sinéad Burke spoke to Fintan O'Mahony, who tweets using the handle @levdavidovic, about using Twitter in the classroom and about the #edchatie network.
Monday Jun 27, 2011
Monday Jun 27, 2011
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy News roundup by Barry Hennessy In this programme Barry spoke to the principal, teachers and pupils of Balbriggan Educate Together N.S. about their student council. The principal of the school is Fintan McCutcheon and you can read his blog.
Monday Apr 25, 2011
Monday Apr 25, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In this programme I spoke to Dr. John Harris about his role as a special advisor to three ministers for education in the 1980s: John Boland, Gemma Hussey and Patrick Cooney. The occasion was the announcement by Minister for Education, Ruairí Quinn, that John Walshe, Education Editor of the Irish Independent was to be his special advisor. Dr. John Harris also spent time as Principal of three schools: Newpark Comprehensive, Sandford Park and Wesley College.
Wednesday Mar 30, 2011
Wednesday Mar 30, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News Roundup by Barry Hennessy On this week's programme the guest was was an expert on the Finnish education system. Dr. Pasi Sahlberg, who describes himself as a "school improvement activist," was in Ireland to address the annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network in January.
Tuesday Feb 01, 2011
Tuesday Feb 01, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News report by Barry Hennessy In this programme Professor Andy Hargreaves, the Thomas More Brennan Chair in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, spoke about leadership in difficult times. He was in Ireland as a guest of the Irish Primary Principals' Network (IPPN) for their annual conference. The President of the Network, Mr. Pat Goff, also described the main priorities for primary school principals at this time.
Tuesday Jan 11, 2011
Tuesday Jan 11, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. In this programme Dr. Gareth Byrne, of Mater Dei Institute of Education, and author of Spread the Good News: National Directory for Catechesis in Ireland talks about the future of Catholic Religious Education in Ireland, both inside and outside of schools.
Sunday Nov 28, 2010
Sunday Nov 28, 2010
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy On this programme Barry spoke to Jukka Pekkarinen an economist and politician from Finland about what lessons Ireland could take from their recession with regard to protecting spending on education.
Tuesday Aug 31, 2010
Tuesday Aug 31, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News report by Barry Hennessy The guests on the programme were Áine Lynch, CEO of the National Parents' Council, Pat Goff, President of the Irish Primary Principals' Network, Seán Ó Dubhlaing who is a member of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation and an experienced teacher of multi-grade classes.