An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Dec 23, 2015
Dec 23, 2015
28 min
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.
Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week I bring you the second part of my interview with Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith, a former president of the American Educational Research Association. In this part of the interview she discusses what teachers and teacher educators can do to promote social justice.
Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
The guest on this week's programme is Marilyn Cochran-Smith, who is the Cawthorne Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools and Director of the Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College. This is the first of a two-part interview in which she discusses the preparation of future teachers.
Apr 22, 2015
Apr 22, 2015
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Andy Burke, formerly of St. Patrick's College, who discusses his education work in various countries and much more. You can read some of Andy's ideas here.
Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
The guest on this week's programme is the educator Andy Burke. He taught philosophy of education and history of education for many years in St. Patrick's College and he currently advises policymakers on educational initiatives in several countries.
Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Tim Savage, the Associate Dean for Online Education in Trinity College Dublin about the University's first experience of offering a MOOC - Massive Open Online Course.
Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week's programme is an extended interview with Professor Pamela Munn, one of the authors of the Report of the International Review Panel on the Structure of Initial Teacher Education in Ireland, better known as the Sahlberg Report. Pamela Munn was in Dublin as a guest of the Vere Foster Trust for whom she gave a policy lecture. Among the topics covered in the interview are the teaching of history, throughts on teachers and research, Professor Munn's views on initial teacher education, and behaviour management in schools.
Apr 21, 2013
Apr 21, 2013
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Dr. Fionnuala Waldron, who is Dean of Education in St. Patrick's College talks about the new book she co-edited, about teacher education and about the integration of subjects across the curriculum. The book is called Re-imagining Initial Teacher Education: Perspectives on Transformation and is published by The Liffey Press.
Apr 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013
28 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme, I speak to Professor Brian Mac Craith, President of Dublin City University, about the Séamus Heaney Lecture he gave in St. Patrick's College, titled Envisioning the Future of Education, and about his work as a university president today.
Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013
28 min
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.