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Programme 330, Action Research as Professional Development (30-5-18)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to four educational researchers who have just had their third book about educational research published by Bloomsbury. The new boook by Máirín Glenn, Mary Roche, Caitríona McDonagh, and Bernie Sullivan is titled Learning Communities in Educational Partnerships: Action Research as Transformation. They have also set up a website to support action researchers at www.eari.ie. Among the topics we discuss on the programme are:

• How this book differs to their previous ones
• The link between professional development and action research
• The transformative power of action research for teachers
• How the authors define research
• How action research works in practice
• Brookfield’s lenses

I have previously spoken to Máirín, Mary, Caitriona and Bernie on programmes 235 and 324,

 

Programme 328, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot & Sociology (16-5-18)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

On this week's programme I bring you my interview with Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Professor Lawrence-Lightfoot has written 10 books, including The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture and The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other. In the course of our interview, we discussed the following matters:

• Diversity and tokenism
• Why education research needs to move away from a pathological approach
• An alternative approach to conducting educational research
• Visibility of children in classrooms
• When global atrocities make the news, how can they be handled in classrooms?
• What looking at education through a sociological lens can make visible
• The importance of context in social science research
• Portraiture as a form of research
• Her book Exit: The Endings that Set Us Free
• Why truth matters more than facts

Programme 326, Jerome Kagan on Psychology & Education 1 (2-5-18)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to one of the pre-eminent developmental psychologists of the twentieth century who continues publishing books and articles up to the present day. Professor Jerome Kagan of Harvard University has conducted research into infants' temperaments and how they are related to personality in later life. He is interested in how psychology can inform teachers' work. Among the topics we discuss in this part of the interview are:

• The relationship between temperament and personality
• How knowing about temperament helps teachers
• Children who find it harder to work in groups
• Insights the discipline of psychology offers to teachers
  • Auditory and visual acuity
  • Short-term, recall and episodic memory
  • Ability to Infer
  • Deduction
• Questions he’d like educational psychologists to answer
• What teachers need to know about human emotions

Programme 325, Ciarán Sugrue on Professionalism & Research in Education (25-4-18)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

This week I look ahead to the upcoming conference of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) with Professor Ciarán Sugrue. The theme of the conference is "50 Years On: Reflecting on the Legacy of Free Second-Level Education." In the interview we discuss educational research, teacher education, and the impact that free education has had on the teaching profession.

Programme 307, David Didau, Part 2 (29-11-17)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

This week I bring you the second part of my interview with writer, blogger, speaker, trainer and former English teacher David Didau. We focus particularly on his book, What if everything you knew about education was wrong? Among the topics discussed are the following:

• How teachers can use research
• Why less feedback is more
• Carol Dweck’s research on mindsets
• The difficulties in telling if what children learn is retained or transferable
• Why a sat-nav is the perfect “assessment for learning machine”
• The illusion of knowledge
• Assessment for learning
• Why testing should be rebranded as quizzing
• Why differentiation is a “dark art”

Programme 306, David Didau - Learning Spy pt 1 (22-11-17)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to David Didau, who is also known as "The Learning Spy." I wanted to find out more about his book, What if everything you knew about education was wrong? Among the topics discussed on the programme with David are the following:

• Opportunity costs in teaching
• Choices teachers make
• Criticism of the teacher education he received
• Who he trusts on questions about education
• How teachers are acquiring incorrect information about education
• The lack of evidence behind learning styles and educational outcome

On next week's programme I'll bring you the second part of my interview with David.

Programme 305, Literacy Association of Ireland Workshops (15-11-17)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I spoke to three people who presented workshops at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. They were Claire Dunne from the Marino Institute of Education, Damien Quinn from seomraranga.com and Anne Burke from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Among the websites mentioned on the programme were:

Children's Literature Association of Ireland

http://bookcentre.ca/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586750-bully

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Programme 302, Bernstein and Disadvantage; Teaching in England (25-10-17)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to a young researcher, Craig Skerritt, who works in the Centre for Evaluation, Quality and Inspection, Dublin City University. We discuss how the work of Basil Bernstein can shed a light on educating students in schools serving areas designated as disadvantaged. We also learn about Craig's experience of teaching in England.

Programme 275, Pip Bruce Ferguson on Action Research (11-1-17)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Pip Bruce Ferguson. Pip works at the Teaching Enhancement Unit at Dublin City University. This part of our conversation covered the following topics:

• Changing the research culture of a higher education institution
• Action research
• The network of educational action research Ireland.
• What counts as research?

During our conversation Pip referred to the following websites:

http://tekotahitanga.tki.org.nz/About

http://www.eari.ie/

Programme 265, Educational Psychology with David Berliner 2 (26-10-16)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme the distinguished Educational Psychologist, Professor David C Berliner, who is Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, shares more of his ideas and reflections about education. Among the topics he discusses this week are assessment literacy, the instructional sensitivity of tests, why he would hesitate in using international comparative tests to shape education policy, and the attractiveness of teaching as a career.

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