Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme we marked this year's Kilkenomics festival and considered the topic of economics teaching by speaking first to economist David McWilliams. This was followed up by an interview with teacher Derek Lynch, who is the honorary secretary of the Business Studies Teachers' Association of Ireland.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This week Professor Walter Doyle, of the College of Education at the University of Arizona tells us how the ideas that student teachers learn in college become unravelled when they go into schools.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Professor Jim Spillane, from Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy in the United States, who is a graduate of St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra talks to me about organisational routines, Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life, and about how educational research could be improved in Ireland to have a greater influence on policy. Jim is the principal investigator on the Distributed Leadership research project.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Report on physical activity and schools by Barry Hennessy In this programmeI spoke to Professor Emer Smyth of the Economic and Social Research Institute about two studies that were recently published by the Institute: Influences on 9-year-olds' learning: Home, school and community and The primary classroom: Insights from the 'Growing up in Ireland' study I also bring you the second part of my interview with Professor Steve Wheeler of Plymouth University who was the keynote speaker at the 2012 CESI conference. In it he speaks about online learning and virtual learning environments.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Reporter Sinéad Burke On this programme the former president of the University of Limerick, Dr. Ed Walsh, discusses the early days of NIHE Limerick. The broadcast was the second part of an interview with Dr. Walsh to mark the publication of Upstart: Friends, Foes and Founding a University. Sinéad Burke spoke to Fintan O'Mahony, who tweets using the handle @levdavidovic, about using Twitter in the classroom and about the #edchatie network.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Dr. Ed Walsh, former president of the University of Limerick discussed his new book, Upstart: Friends, Foes and Founding a University and his Irish Times article on 13 Lessons We Must Learn. In a week when Senator Eamonn Coghlan called for schools to help tackle the growing problem of youngsters being overweight, obese and unfit, Caitriona Cosgrave, PE lecturer in Marino Institute of Education and Chairperson of the Irish Primary PE Association, discusses the difference between physical education and physical fitness.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney PISA series by Barry Hennessy Reporter: Sinéad Burke Barry Hennessy concludes his series about the PISA test by drawing together some of the voices who have been heard during the series. To mark Science Week 2012 Sinéad Burke spoke about science teaching and learning to Dr. Paul van Kampen who lectures in physics education in DCU. On this programme you will hear the second part of the interview with Professor Thomas S. Dee from the University of Virginia. In it he discussed the research he conducted with Professor Brian Jacob from the University of Michigan on the topic of student plagiarism at college level. He describes what students and lecturers can do to avoid plagiarism.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney PISA series by Barry Hennessy Reporter: Sinéad Burke On this programme, Professor Thomas S. Dee from the University of Virginia, discussed the research he conducted with Professor Brian Jacob from the University of Michigan on the topic of student plagiarism at college level. In this interview he discusses what plagiarism and estimates its prevalence. This interview will continue on next week's programme. Sinéad Burke spoke to Róisín Ní Niadh about the Irish Studies programme at the Marino Institute of Education. Barry Hennessy spoke to Emily Richmond from the National Education Writers' Association about how U.S. students performed on the most recent PISA test.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy The guest on this programme was Professor Suzanne Wilson from the College of Education at Michigan State University. Reference was made to the Initial Teacher Education:Criteria and Guidelines for Programme Providers developed by the Teaching Council.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News by Barry Hennessy On this programme Professor Pam Grossman from the School of Education at Stanford University describes how teacher education can be designed around the practice of teaching. She also explains that teacher education is just one form of professional education and teacher educators can learn from the preparation of other professionals.