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 Jan 09, 2012
Monday Jan 09, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In this programme, I spoke to the man who was the voice of educational broadcasting in Ireland from 1975 to 2002. In that time he elicited insights into education from some of the greatest living thinkers in the area. On this first of a two-part interview, he shares his own insights into education gained from his time as a teacher and from his time as anchor of The Open Mind and Education Forum. Some of what he learned on those programmes has been compiled in his book, The Curious Mind, published by Veritas.
Thursday Dec 15, 2011
Thursday Dec 15, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Budget report by Barry Hennessy In this week's programme, Yvonne Higgins, music educator in the Marino Institute of Education, talks about how teachers teach children to listen to music. Barry analyses the education content of the recent budget for Ireland.
Sunday Nov 06, 2011
Sunday Nov 06, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney PISA report by Barry Hennessy Guests on the programme this week included Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, and CEO of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Dr. Anne Looney. They were interviewed at the launch of the plan for reforming the post-primary junior cycle programme. Minister Quinn's address to the NCCA can be read here.
Monday Oct 17, 2011
Monday Oct 17, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney PISA report series by Barry Hennessy On this programme Barry begins a new series where he investigates the international PISA test of literacy and numeracy. On this week's programme he speaks to Jude Cosgrove of the Educational Research Centre and to Professor Svein Sjoberg of the University of Oslo. I speak to Annie Murphy of the Marino Institute of Education who remembers Dorothy Heathcote, a major figure in drama education who passed away recently. Dr. Erika Doyle of Trinity College Dublin provides an introductory guide to how standardised tests are devised.
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News interview by Barry Hennessy. This week we bring you the second part of an interview conducted recently with Dr. Anne Looney of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. In the programme Anne Looney shares her views on assessment, what education can learn from computer games, Junior Cert reform, the Leaving Certificate, the CAO points system and Transition Year. In the news interview Barry presents an interview with Lorraine Dempsey about cutbacks to Special Needs Assistants in schools.
Monday Aug 29, 2011
Monday Aug 29, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News roundup by Barry Hennessy. This was the first programme in the 2011-2012 school year. The guest on this programme was Dr. Anne Looney who is Chief Executive Officer of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). In this part of the interview she discusses the role of the NCCA, the breadth of the Primary School Curriculum and how some teachers are teaching without textbooks.
Saturday Jul 16, 2011
Saturday Jul 16, 2011
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.
Friday Jun 24, 2011
Friday Jun 24, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. Analysis by Barry Hennessy. The guest on this 100th programme is Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn.