An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
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.
Saturday Jan 29, 2011
Saturday Jan 29, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy In this programme Mary Chambers describes her work as Principal Teacher of the Hospital School in the Children's University Hospital in Temple Street in Dublin.
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.
Tuesday Dec 21, 2010
Tuesday Dec 21, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News report and analysis by Barry Hennessy The guest on this week's programme was Dr. Michael Flannery who is a senior lecturer with responsibility for the visual arts in Marino Institute of Education, Dublin. The news includes Barry Hennessy's analysis of the 2009 PISA results and the Government's education budget for 2011.
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.
Monday Oct 04, 2010
Monday Oct 04, 2010
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.
Monday Sep 27, 2010
Monday Sep 27, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In this programme David Shenk talks to us about his latest book The Genius in All of Us. It describes how our genes interact with our environment to influence our potential.