An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Oct 11, 2011
Oct 11, 2011
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. The featured guest on this week's programme is Professor P. David Pearson from the Graduate School of Education of UC Berkeley, who delivered the keynote address at the 35th Annual Conference of the Reading Association of Ireland. This is the second of a two-part interview with Professor Pearson.
Oct 3, 2011
Oct 3, 2011
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News roundup by Barry Hennessy. The featured guest on this week's programme is Professor P. David Pearson from the Graduate School of Education of UC Berkeley, who delivered the keynote address at the 35th Annual Conference of the Reading Association of Ireland. This is the first of a two-part interview with Professor Pearson. The second part of the interview will be broadcast on next week's programme.
Jul 16, 2011
Jul 16, 2011
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News Report by Barry Hennessy On this programme I spoke to Martina Gannon and Lána McCarthy from Write Minded, a service of Young Ballymun. They spoke about the Summer Slide initiative that they are implementing this year. Barry reports on the launch of Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life: The National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People 2011-2020. He plays an excerpt from the Minister's speech on launch day and gets a response from Peter Mullan of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation.
Apr 26, 2011
Apr 26, 2011
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme I spoke to Alan Bennett of Fighting Words, a creative writing initiative in Dublin's inner city to get children of all ages writing. It was set up by Roddy Doyle and Seán Love, inspired by 826 Valencia in San Francisco. The programme also featured a brief snippet of the interview with Mark Patrick Hederman, Abbot of Glenstal who featured in a recent programme. This was a clip that I was unable to bring you in the previous programme due to lack of time.
Mar 1, 2011
Mar 1, 2011
27 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Sound supervision and production assistance by Barry Hennessy On this programme Aodán Mac Suibhne from Coláiste Mhuire, Marino Institute of Education and Muireann Ní Mhóráin from An Chomhairle Um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta discuss the educational implications of the 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language. Tá leagan Ghaeilge den stráitéis ar fáil anseo.
Dec 23, 2010
Dec 23, 2010
28 min
In this programme a panel of experts discusses the recently released results from PISA which showed a decline from 2000 to 2009 in the performance of Irish 15-year-olds students in reading and mathematical literacy. The experts are Dr. Jude Cosgrove, a research associate at the Educational Research Centre and a co-author of the Irish report on PISA; Professor Seán Ó Riain, professor of sociology at NUI Maynooth; Dr. Eithne Kennedy, a teacher educator in literacy in St. Patrick's College, Dublin and Jackie O' Callaghan, the Public Relations Officer of the National Parents' Council - Second Level.
Nov 1, 2010
Nov 1, 2010
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. This programme is about Dublin-based activities to mark NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November. With regard to the Dublin region: *There are 240 Wrimos - 60% are new to NaNoWriMo *2.07% of Wrimos in this region have donated 55.00 so far
Oct 11, 2010
Oct 11, 2010
27 min
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.
Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010
27 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy In this interview Sr. Freda Kenny, who is based in the Marino Institute of Education, describes her work as a teacher leader for Reading Recovery. This is an intervention developed by Marie Clay to support young learners in learning to read.
Jul 13, 2010
Jul 13, 2010
27 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News Interview by Barry Hennessy Claire Bourgeois, the Director of the Alliance Francaise in Dublin was the featured guest on this week's programme. You can determine your level of French by taking the placement test at this link.