An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Saturday Mar 26, 2011
Saturday Mar 26, 2011
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy In this programme Barry spoke to Dr. Lorraine Gilleece of the Educational Research Centre in Drumcondra and to Dr. Clodagh Harris from the Department of Government in University College Cork about the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study.
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.
Tuesday Mar 01, 2011
Tuesday Mar 01, 2011
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.
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 Jan 18, 2011
Tuesday Jan 18, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News by Barry Hennessy In this programme we visited the BT Young Scientists Exhibition and spoke to young scientists who studied education-related topics, and to their teachers. We heard about an educational operating system, Zorin OS, about how different learning strategies affect learning and about a study on dyslexia.
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 Jan 09, 2011
Sunday Jan 09, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
In this programme Brian Mooney who is a contributor to Education Matters and the Education Matters Yearbook looked back at some of the key events in education during 2010. These included disappointing PISA results, bonus CAO points for Maths, Grade inflation, higher education reform, the Croke Park agreement, reform of the VECs, problems with FÁS courses and school patronage. 2010 also saw a new Minister for Education and a name-change for the Department.
Barry Hennessy looked ahead to anticipate some of the stories that are likely to hit the education news headlines in 2011.
Thursday Dec 23, 2010
Thursday Dec 23, 2010
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.
Monday Nov 01, 2010
Monday Nov 01, 2010
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
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.