An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Sunday Jun 19, 2011
Sunday Jun 19, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News roundup by Barry Hennessy. This week's featured interview is with the Chief Executive of the National Parents' Council (Primary), Áine Lynch, to mark their annual education conference. The theme of the conference was parental involvement, summarised by the slogan "Your child needs you."
Monday May 02, 2011
Monday May 02, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Analysis by Barry Hennessy In this programme I spoke to the deputy general secretaries of each of the teacher unions and asked them to reflect on the highlights of their 2011 conference. My guests were Annette Dolan of the Teachers' Union of Ireland, Diarmaid de Paor of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland and Noel Ward of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation.
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.
Monday Mar 07, 2011
Monday Mar 07, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy The featured guest on this week's programme is Dr. Mark Patrick Hederman, Abbot of Glenstal Abbey in Limerick. He was a keynote speaker at a colloquium in Waterford Institute of Technology called Teaching Matters.
Thursday Feb 17, 2011
Thursday Feb 17, 2011
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy and Seán Delaney In this programme Barry spoke to education spokespersons from three of the main political parties: Fergus O'Dowd of Fine Gael, Paul Gogarty of the Green Party and Ruairí Quinn of the Labour Party. They were all attending the special delegate conference organised by the Irish National Teachers' Organisation. Spokespersons from Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin were invited to be on the programme but to no avail.
Wednesday Feb 09, 2011
Wednesday Feb 09, 2011
Produced and presented by Seán Delaney News Report by Barry Hennessy This programme featured a report from the 2011 Conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI). The Chairperson of CESI, Adrienne Webb, explained how schools are using their technology grants. Simon Lewis discussed the use of cloud computing for communication in his school and Tom Barrett, the keynote speaker, discussed how he uses education in his classroom and about his blog.
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.
Monday Oct 11, 2010
Monday Oct 11, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy The special guest on this programme was Professor Timothy Shanahan from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was in Ireland as a guest of Young Ballymun and he presented a keynote address at the Reading Association of Ireland's Annual Conference.
Sunday Jun 13, 2010
Sunday Jun 13, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News Interview by Barry Hennessy This week's programme featured interviews with Nellie Torres and Ronan Maher to coincide with the Cluas conference on Unlocking Speech and Language Difficulties. The Cluas centre uses a specific therapy, the Tomatis method, to support children with developmental delays, especially delays in speech and language. Barry interviewed Conor Ryan about the proposed abolition of the General Teaching Council in England and about academy schools in the United Kingdom.
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.