An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Wednesday Dec 23, 2015
Wednesday Dec 23, 2015
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I am joined by Brian Mooney, who edited the Education Matters Yearbook 2015-2016. He is also a Guidance Counsellor at Oatlands College and a columnist with The Irish Times.
Wednesday Nov 11, 2015
Wednesday Nov 11, 2015
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme to mark National Science Week I visited the national finals of Scifest and spoke to its founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sheila Porter. I also spoke to two teachers, Catherine Tattersall from Sutton Park School and Dr. Katie Corbett from Skerries Community College.
I also bring you a final piece from my interview with Mary Roche, author of Developing Children's Critical Thinking through Picturebooks, in which she names some of her favourite picture books.
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme my guest is Mags Amond, a recently retired science teacher, a prolific tweeter and the woman who introduced Teachmeets to Ireland.
Wednesday Jan 21, 2015
Wednesday Jan 21, 2015
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Dr. Kevin Williams who recently retired as
Senior Lecturer from Mater Dei Institute of Education.
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I am joined by Dr. Mary Fleming, Head of the School of Education at NUI Galway, to review 2014 and to look ahead to 2015 from an education perspective. NUI Galway was involved in the production of the eighth Education Matters Yearbook, which was launched by the Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O'Sullivan, earlier this month.
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
Most primary schools in Ireland are under the patronage of the Catholic Church. However, outside Ireland, state supported primary schools that are Catholic are the exception. In order to find learn about the position and history of Catholic schools in the United States, I spoke to Dr. Christian Dallavis who is Senior Director of Leadership programmes for the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame.
Sunday Jun 29, 2014
Sunday Jun 29, 2014
In this podcast I interview eminent educational sociologist, Professor Mark Berends about his career to date. He is a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame. Among the topics we discuss are ability grouping, school choice, Catholic schools, New American schools, his vision of a good school and other topics related to sociology of education.
Sunday Jun 22, 2014
Sunday Jun 22, 2014
In this podcast, Professor Darcia Narvaez from the University of Notre Dame discusses the topic of moral education. She mentions the following two websites in the course of the programme which contain materials which are useful for teachers who wish to work on this topic with their students: https://cee.nd.edu/curriculum/curriculum1.shtml and http://www.devstu.org/research-child-development-project.
Sunday May 26, 2013
Tuesday Mar 12, 2013
Tuesday Mar 12, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to Catherine Cronin, who is Academic Coordinator of online IT programmes and lecturer in IT at NUI Galway about girls and women and technology and about online learning. I spoke to capstone keynote presenter at the conference, Dan Meyer from Stanford University. Finally, I spoke to school principal, Rozz Lewis about an app that can help to reduce stress. All interviews were conducted at the 2013 CESI annual conference at GMIT.