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| 04 Nov 2013 | Podcast 183, John Mighton on JUMP Maths (4-11-13) | 00:25:28 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
In this podcast I speak to John Mighton the founder of JUMP Maths.
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| 16 Dec 2013 | Podcast 184, Catherine Snow on Language and Literacy, Pt 1 (16-12-13) | 00:25:44 | |
On this podcast in the first of a two-part interview I speak to Professor Catherine Snow from Harvard Graduate School of Education about several aspects of language and literacy. She visited Ireland as a guest of the Reading Assocation of Ireland.
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| 18 Dec 2013 | Podcast 185, Catherine Snow on Language and Literacy, Pt 2 (18-12-13) | 00:26:11 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
In this podcast I bring you the second part of my two-part interview with Harvard University Professor, Catherine Snow. Professor Snow was in Ireland as a guest of the Reading Association of Ireland and she gave a keynote speech at the annual conference of the Association in September 2013.
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| 16 Feb 2014 | Podcast 186. Nicole McNeil on the Equals Sign & Manipulatives (15-2-14): | 00:26:55 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this podcast we hear why many young children don't understand the meaning of the equals sign and what can be done about it. We also hear why manipulatives are not good for teaching the cardinality of numbers (i.e. that when you count objects, the final number relates to the whole set and not just to the final object that was counted). My guest is Professor Nicole McNeil who directs the Cognition Learning and Development Lab at the University of Notre Dame. She is also ACE Associate Professor of Psychology and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the university.
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| 22 Jun 2014 | Podcast 187, Darcia Narvaez on Moral Education (22-6-14) | 00:43:57 | |
In this podcast, Professor Darcia Narvaez from the University of Notre Dame discusses the topic of moral education. She mentions the following two websites in the course of the programme which contain materials which are useful for teachers who wish to work on this topic with their students: https://cee.nd.edu/curriculum/curriculum1.shtml and http://www.devstu.org/research-child-development-project.
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| 29 Jun 2014 | Podcast 188, Interview with Sociologist Mark Berends (29-6-14) | 00:34:28 | |
In this podcast I interview eminent educational sociologist, Professor Mark Berends about his career to date. He is a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame. Among the topics we discuss are ability grouping, school choice, Catholic schools, New American schools, his vision of a good school and other topics related to sociology of education.
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| 06 Jul 2014 | Podcast 189, Catholic Schools in the United States (6-7-14) | 00:45:53 | |
Most primary schools in Ireland are under the patronage of the Catholic Church. However, outside Ireland, state supported primary schools that are Catholic are the exception. In order to find learn about the position and history of Catholic schools in the United States, I spoke to Dr. Christian Dallavis who is Senior Director of Leadership programmes for the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame.
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| 21 Mar 2012 | Programme 131, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill on Irish, and more from CESI Conference (18-3-12) | 00:28:40 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill interview by Barry Hennessy
On this week's programme poet and multi-linguist Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill speaks about the benefits of learning Irish. Simon Lewis of Carlow Educate Together NS and of Anseo.Net describes how to create an app for your school using appmakr. Patrick Felicia from WIT discusses the educational potential of video games. Both Simon and Patrick presented workshops at the annual CESI conference in 2012. | |||
| 26 Mar 2012 | Programme 132, Séamus Cannon pt 1, & Fred Boss (25-3-12) | 00:28:15 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme Fred Boss talks about personal learning networks and edchatie. The interview was recorded at the CESI 2012 conference.
In the first of a two-part interview, the recently retired director of Blackrock Education Centre, Dr. Séamus Cannon, discusses how he became a teacher, the influence his father - a primary teacher -had on his work, and why he likes Joyce's Ulysses. | |||
| 06 Apr 2012 | Programme 133, Homework, and Séamus Cannon (pt 2) on Teacher Learning (1-4-12) | 00:28:56 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Homework report by Barry Hennessy
Barry spoke to Professor Pam Sammons from Jesus College Oxford on the subject of the latest findings of the Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education project, particularly with regard to homework. Professor Sammons referred to research reports and you can read them here, here and here.
Seán spoke to Dr. Séamus Cannon, recently retired director of Blackrock Education Centre about how the work of the centre evolved during his time at the helm and he shares his thoughts on how teachers learn. | |||
| 08 Apr 2012 | Programme 134, General Secretaries Preview Teaching Conferences (8-4-12) | 00:30:41 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
ASTI interview by Barry Hennessy
On this programme Barry and I ask the three general secretaries of the teaching unions to preview their 2012 conferences. We spoke to Sheila Nunan of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, Pat King of the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland, and John MacGabhann of the Teachers Union of Ireland. | |||
| 19 Apr 2012 | Programme 135, Ron Tzur on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (15-4-12) | 00:28:31 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Research Centre report by Barry Hennessy
On this programme Professor Ron Tzur from the University of Colorado Denver talks about teaching and learning maths, and discusses the importance and difficulty of counting on and multiplicative reasoning. | |||
| 24 Apr 2012 | Programme 136, The Origins of Children's Literature (22-4-12) | 00:28:02 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this programme Dr Matthew Grenby from Newcastle University told me about the origins of childhood and children's literature in the eighteenth century. He was the keynote speaker at the ninth annual conference of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature which was held on 25 and 26 February 2012. In the course of the interview Dr. Grenby referred to the Hockliffe Project website. | |||
| 30 Apr 2012 | Programme 137, Jim Spillane on leadership, policy and change in education (29-4-12) | 00:28:07 | |
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. | |||
| 06 May 2012 | Programme 138, Lisa Delpit on Educating Minority Learners (6-5-12) | 00:29:17 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme, Professor Lisa Delpit from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and author of Multiplication is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children talks about her thoughts on raising expectations for students of colour in the United States in light of how they may help Irish educators think about educating traveller children, children from disadvantaged areas, and children whose parents were not born in Ireland. | |||
| 14 May 2012 | Programme 139, Reasonable Accommodations for Students Doing State Exams (13-5-12) | 00:28:02 | |
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy
On this week's programme Barry spoke to Sally Maguire, resource teacher in St. Raphaela's School in Stillorgan and Vice President of the ASTI about the reasonable accommodations available to support students with disabilities taking the Leaving Certificate Examination. | |||
| 21 May 2012 | Programme 140, Photovoice - a research methodology (20-5-12) | 00:28:01 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme Dr. Kevin Graziano of Nevada State College discusses how the research method photovoice can be used in education, especially with those whose voices are not always heard. He was in Ireland as a guest of DICE - Development and Intercultural Education within Initial Teacher Education for whom he gave a workshop on the use of documentary photography and storytelling in the classroom. | |||
| 07 Jun 2012 | Programme 141, Paddy Madden on Teaching in & about Summer (3-6-'12) | 00:27:46 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme Paddy Madden from the Marino Institute of Education talks about what teachers can do in summer time to teach with the season. He refers to harvesting from the school garden, maintaining the school garden over the summer, possible nature walks, and how to learn about mini-beasts and butterflies. You can view videos by Paddy in the Paddy's School Garden section of the Blackrock Education Centre. | |||
| 12 Jun 2012 | Programme 142, Mark Candon on Being Principal of a School Serving a Disadvantaged Area (10-6-12) | 00:28:01 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme Mark Candon, who is currently on study leave from his position as principal of St. Laurence O'Toole's CBS in Dublin, discusses the targets he set himself on appointment to the position and the successes he has had and the challenges he has faced along the way. Mark is currently studying for a doctorate at Trinity College Dublin where he is studying the school. | |||
| 20 Jun 2012 | Programme 143, Dyslexia (17-6-12) | 00:27:59 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this programme Psychologist, Dr. Erika Doyle, from the Growing Up in Ireland study, explains what dyslexia is, how it can be diagnosed and what teachers can do to support learners who have the condition. She also discusses research that she has done to try and diagnose dyslexia in children from a young age. | |||
| 25 Jun 2012 | Programme 144, Walter Doyle on Classroom Management & Tasks (24-6-12) | 00:27:56 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme, Professor Walter Doyle, of the College of Education at the University of Arizona talks about research on classroom management and about why teachers need to see themselves as task managers. | |||
| 02 Jul 2012 | Programme 145, Walter Doyle on Learning to Teach (1-7-12) | 00:27:59 | |
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. | |||
| 07 Oct 2012 | Programme 146, Reading Multi-modal Texts & More (7-10-12) | 00:28:16 | |
On this programme I spoke to Dr. Frank Serafini, from Arizona State University about learning to read multi-modal texts, about reading workshops, about assessment of comprehension, and about why children learn to read. He was a keynote speaker at the 36th annual conference of the Reading Association of Ireland, which took place in Marino Institute of Education in September.
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| 16 Oct 2012 | Programme 147, How Parents can Help Children with Maths, & Lefthandedness (14-10-12) | 00:27:10 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme Valerie O'Dowd from the Marino Institute of Education talks about the videos she made with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment showing how parents can help their child with mathematics. You can view the videos and tip-sheets here and here. Professor Margaret Clark, from Newman University College, Birmingham, who was a guest at the Reading Association of Ireland's annual conference speaks about lefthandedness. | |||
| 21 Oct 2012 | Programme 148, Colum Kenny on Need for Educational Reform (21-10-12) | 00:28:13 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this programme, Professor Colum Kenny from DCU's School of Communications talks about the need for our education system to be more responsive to the needs of young people. | |||
| 04 Nov 2012 | Programme 149, Paddy Madden on Teaching in & about Autumn (28-10-12) | 00:28:23 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this programme I continued my seasonal coverage of teaching social, environmental and scientific education in the primary school with teacher, teacher educator and environmentalist, Paddy Madden. During the interview Paddy referred to the section about "Paddy's School Garden" on the Blackrock Education Centre website. | |||
| 09 Nov 2012 | Programme 150, Jo Boaler on Teaching Mathematics (4-11-12) | 00:27:43 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
In this week's programme Professor Jo Boaler from Stanford University discusses the teaching of mathematics. She was in Ireland earlier this year as a guest of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. She recommended the NRICH website as a source of maths problems. | |||
| 13 Nov 2012 | Programme 151, David McWilliams & Derek Lynch on Economics Teaching (11-11-12) | 00:29:23 | |
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. | |||
| 19 Nov 2012 | Programme 152, Margaret Clark on Teaching Reading and More (19-11-12) | 00:29:23 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme Professor Margaret M. Clark, who was in Ireland as a guest of the Reading Association of Ireland, discusses topics including literacy, research and early years education. | |||
| 26 Nov 2012 | Programme 153, Síle Ní Fhearáin on Post-primary Teaching and Teaching Irish (25-11-12) | 00:27:59 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Síle Ní Fhearáin discusses how she became a teacher, her time in Belcamp College and the experience of moving to Pobalscoil Neasáin after 33 years teaching in Belcamp College. She also discusses the teaching of Irish. Next week I'll speak to Síle about attendance and discipline. | |||
| 02 Dec 2012 | Programme 154, Reflections on School Attendance, Discipline and Suspension (2-12-12) | 00:29:41 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I continue my discussion with Síle Ní Fhearáin, a recently retired post-primary school teacher. Síle uses a pastoral care perspective to reflect on matters related to school attendance, discipline and suspension as a sanction for misbehaviour. During the interview Síle refers to a report, Discipline in Schools, written by Dr. Maeve Martin in 1997. A more recent report on the topic is available here. | |||
| 13 Dec 2012 | Programme 155, Deborah Ball on Teacher Education, Mathematics Education and U.S. Education (9-12-12) | 00:29:27 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme Professor Deborah Loewenberg Ball, who is Dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan and Director of Teaching Works talks about her research on teacher education. She also shares her impression of Irish education and tells us what the current hot topics are in U.S. education. She was in Ireland as a guest of the Marino Institute of Education and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. You can watch a podcast of her talks to Irish educators here. | |||
| 01 Jan 2013 | Programme 156, Comparing Performance on Reading, Maths & Science (16-12-12) | 00:29:43 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I spoke to Dr. Eemer Eivers, research fellow, and Aidan Clerkin, research associate, at the Educational Research Centre at St. Patrick's College about the performance of Irish fourth class children on the PIRLS and TIMSS tests. In the tests Irish children's performance on reading, maths and science was compared with the performance of children in up to 50 other countries. The guests authored the Irish report, which can be viewed here. | |||
| 06 Jan 2013 | Programme 157, Paddy Madden on Teaching SESE in Winter Time (6-1-13) | 00:28:19 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme Paddy Madden spoke to us about teaching Social, Environmental, and Scientific Education (SESE) in wintertime. This programme completes a series of four interviews with Paddy on teaching SESE across the seasons. In this programme Paddy referred to three websites: InTouch, the publication of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, Paddy's School Garden section of the Blackrock Education Centre website and the website of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. | |||
| 13 Jan 2013 | Programme 158, Young Scientists Study Education 2013 (13-1-13) | 00:28:14 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I spoke to some students at the BT Young Sciensts who studied topics related to education. I spoke to Carl O'Dowd, Matthew Kavanagh and Richard Hughes from the Cistercian College in Roscrea. I spoke to Kevin Martin, Brian Glennon and Donal Lowry from Summerhill College in Sligo. I spoke to Rhona Lonergan, Amy O'Donoghue and Sarah Murray from St. Andrew's College in Booterstown. Finally, I spoke to Orla Tyrell, Michelle Healy and Anna Forde and to their teacher Crona McCarthy from Pobalscoil na Tríonóide in Youghal. | |||
| 20 Jan 2013 | Programme 159, Retired Special School Principal Reflects on a Career in Education, pt. 1 (20-1-13) | 00:28:38 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the first part of a two-part interview with retired Principal of Scoil Chiaráin Special School, Glasnevin, Éamonn Ó Murchu. On this week's programme Éamonn discusses his own primary schooling, the influence his teacher and mentor, Bryan MacMahon, had on him and on time he spent teaching in Zimbabwe. | |||
| 27 Jan 2013 | Programme 160, Retired Special School Principal Reflects on a Career in Education, pt. 2 (27-1-13) | 00:28:18 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
In the second of a two-part interview, retired principal of Scoil Chiaráin, and teacher educator, Éamon Ó Murchu reflects on his career as a school leader at a pioneering time for special education provision in Ireland. | |||
| 03 Feb 2013 | Programme 161, CoderDojo: James Whelton, Mentors & Participants (3-2-13) | 00:29:10 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I spoke to James Whelton, co-founder with Bill Liao of CoderDojo. I then visited the Kilkenny dojo and spoke to some local mentors and participants ranging in age from 8 to 18. | |||
| 10 Feb 2013 | Programme 162, Managing Challenging Behaviour among Adults in School (10-2-13) | 00:27:43 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme, Dr. Joe O'Connell of Limerick Education Centre discusses how to manage challenging behaviour among adults in schools: principals, teachers and parents. The interview is based on a talk he gave at the annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network in January 2013. | |||
| 17 Feb 2013 | Programme 163, Previewing Two Conferences - IPPEA and CESI (17-2-13) | 00:29:05 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I previewed two conferences that have a healthy following each year. The Irish Primary PE Assocation (IPPEA) is shortly having its tenth annual conference in St. Patrick's College and the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) is having its fortieth annual conference at GMIT. Caitriona Cosgrave from St. Colmcille's Junior National School and representing the IPPEA and Anne McMorrough from the Marino Institute of Education and representing CESI told me about the conferences and shared some of their own thoughts on the respective topics. | |||
| 24 Feb 2013 | Programme 164, Teaching Poetry in the Primary School (24-2-13) | 00:31:02 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this programme retired primary teacher and philosopher, John Doyle, shares his experiences and reflections on teaching poetry to children in primary school. Among the poets he mentions are Christina Rossetti, William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost. | |||
| 04 Mar 2013 | Programme 165, Interviews from CESI 2013 Pt. 1 (3-3-13) | 00:29:35 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I spoke to Anne White from the NCCA about plans for technology courses for the new Junior Cycle programme, to Damien Quinn from seomraranga.com and to Steven Daly from Camara Ireland. All three interviews took place at the annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) 2013. | |||
| 12 Mar 2013 | Programme 166, Interviews from CESI 2013 Pt. 2 (10-3-13) | 00:28:23 | |
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. | |||
| 18 Mar 2013 | Programme 167, Joe Dale on Technology and Language Teaching (17-3-13) | 00:28:04 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme, Joe Dale, who presented at the CESI Conference 2013, talks about many ways in which technology can support language learning. Among the applications and websites he mentioned in the course of the conversation are the following:
Websites: Linguascope, Kelda Richards, Paper.li, MFL Times, Sound Cloud,
Apps: Aurasma, Hot potatoes, Cue prompter, I Said What?!, Audioboo,
Software: Audacity, | |||
| 24 Mar 2013 | Programme 168, Sociologist Stephen Ball on Education Policy (24-3-13) | 00:29:13 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme, Professor Stephen Ball from the Institute of Education at the University of London talks about how he uses the discipline of sociology, and in particular the work of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu to study education policy. He was in Ireland as a guest of the Vere Foster Trust and the Institution of Educational Research in Ireland and you can listen to his address here. | |||
| 31 Mar 2013 | Programme 169, Teacher Union General Secretaries Preview 2013 Conferences (31-3-13) | 00:29:18 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to the general secretaries of the three teaching unions to preview their respective conferences which take place this week. I spoke to Pat King of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, Sheila Nunan of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation and John MacGabhann of the Teachers' Union of Ireland. | |||
| 07 Apr 2013 | Programme 170, President of DCU, Prof. Brian MacCraith Envisions the Future of Education (7-4-13) | 00:28:54 | |
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. | |||
| 14 Apr 2013 | Programme 171, Education in and to Avoid Prison (14-4-13) | 00:28:04 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme former governor of Mountjoy Prison, John Lonergan, discusses what the education system could do to help keep people out of prison and he discusses education within prisons. This programme coincides with the screening of the television documentary on RTÉ 1, John Lonergan's Circus. | |||
| 21 Apr 2013 | Programme 172, Fionnuala Waldron on Teacher Education (21-4-13) | 00:28:00 | |
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. | |||
| 29 Apr 2013 | Programme 173, Fionnuala Waldron on Teaching History (28-4-13) | 00:28:03 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme, Dr. Fionnuala Waldron from St. Patrick's College discusses the teaching of history. | |||
| 05 May 2013 | Programme 174, An Economics View of Education from Eric Hanushek (5-5-13) | 00:27:44 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
For this interview I met up with Professor Eric Hanushek from Stanford University and spoke to him about important issues in education - such as class size, international test results, and teacher pay - from an economics perspective. The interview took place at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. | |||
| 12 May 2013 | Programme 175, John Naughton and Education for a Networked World (12-5-13) | 00:28:58 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme, Professor John Naughton, who is Vice-President of Wolfson College Cambridge, explains the difference between the internet and the world wide web and why the difference matters for educators. You can read his blog here. I interviewed Professor Naughton just after he gave the keynote address at the CESI annual conference earlier this year. | |||
| 20 May 2013 | Programme 176, Teaching Films and the Primary School Curriculum (19-5-13) | 00:28:35 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme, retired teacher and philosopher John Doyle discusses how he taught using films in the primary classroom and the 1999 primary school curriculum. | |||
| 02 Jun 2013 | Programme 178, Collaborative & Cooperative Learning (2-6-13) | 00:27:44 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Professor Angela O'Donnell who is originally from Ireland but who has a successful academic career in the United States as an educational psychologist. She is based in Rutgers University and is author of Educational Psychology: Reflection for Action. | |||
| 09 Jun 2013 | Programme 179, School Tours and the Burren (9-6-13) | 00:28:02 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
For this week's programme I went on location to the Burren where Gordon D'Arcy and Paddy Madden were bringing a group of student teachers on a tour of the Burren. I eavesdropped on the tour and asked Gordon some questions about organising a school tour to exploit its educational potential. In the programme Gordon refers to the Heritage in Schools scheme. You can find out more about it here. | |||
| 16 Jun 2013 | Programme 180, History of Computer Education Society of Ireland | 00:28:22 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I spoke to Elizabeth Oldham from the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin about the history of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI) to mark the fortieth anniversary of the society's being founded. The interview was recorded at the annual conference of CESI 2013. The programme also features a brief excerpt from an interview with Professor John Naughton about the Raspberry Pi computing device. | |||
| 24 Jun 2013 | Programme 181, Influences on Teaching Maths, Reading and Science (23-6-13) | 00:27:56 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Eemer Eivers, Aidan Clerkin and Dr. Mary Lewis of the Educational Research Centre about the publication of National Schools, International Contexts: Beyond the PIRLS and TIMSS Test Results. The report outlines the factors that are believed to have influenced our results on the maths, reading, and science tests which were published at the end of 2012 and compares the factors across countries. You can hear about the results here. | |||
| 27 Jun 2013 | Programme 182, International School of Dublin (30-6-13) | 00:29:13 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Sarah Pepper who is the Principal of the International School of Dublin. You can learn more about the school here and here.
This is the final Inside Education programme for now. Thank you for listening and I hope to be back some time in the future. | |||
| 08 Oct 2014 | Programme 190, SEED & RAI Conferences (8-10-14) | 00:29:30 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week I spoke to Paddy Madden about the second annual conference of School Earth Education. I also spoke to two keynote presenters at the Reading Association of Ireland annual conference, Elizabeth Birr Moje of the University of Michigan and Gene Mehigan of the Marino Institute of Education.
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| 15 Oct 2014 | Programme 191, Maths Week, Religious Ed and Diversity in Teaching (15-10-14) | 00:28:12 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Sheila Donegan about Maths Week, I spoke to Elaine Mahon about the National Religious Education Congress and I spoke to Elaine Keane and Manuela Heinz about Diversity in Initial Teacher Education.
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| 22 Oct 2014 | Programme 192, Pamela Munn (22-10-14) | 00:28:57 | |
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.
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| 30 Oct 2014 | Programme 193, Autism, IMTA & Movement (29-10-14) | 00:28:29 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
For this programme I spoke to Michelle Shiels, a graduate of Stranmillis University College, who gave a workshop input on autism at the annual SCoTENS conference. I spoke to Neil Hallinan, a retired teacher and current member of the Irish Mathematics Teachers Association (IMTA) on the fiftieth anniversary of the organisation's founding and about the 2014 Maths Fest. Finally, I spoke to Dr Deborah Tannehill, emeritus faculty UL on the topic of fundamental movement in physical education, a topic she is presenting a workshop on in St. Patrick's College on 12 November.
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| 05 Nov 2014 | Programme 194, Steiner Education and The Teaching Council (6-11-14) | 00:28:17 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I spoke to Lindsay Myers, the organiser of a conference on "The Art of Education in Steiner Waldorf National Schools" about Steiner Education. Lindsay Myers is also involved with Galway Steiner School.
I also brought you the first of a two-part interview with Tomás Ó Ruairc, the Director of the Teaching Council. On this week's programme he spoke about the Féilte event, about Continuing Professional Development, and about research and teaching.
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| 12 Nov 2014 | Programme 195, The Teaching Council - Pt 2 (12-11-14) | 00:28:38 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme, you can hear the second part of my interview with Tomás Ó Ruairc, the Director of the Teaching Council.
On this week's programme he spoke about Droichead, registration with the Teaching Council, fitness to teach, teacher supply, and more.
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| 19 Nov 2014 | Programme 196, Multicultural Education (19-11-14) | 00:29:40 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week I hear about a new book by an Irish author which aimes to promote awareness of multicultural matters through picture books. The book is written by Dr. Anne Dolan of Mary Immaculate College and the title is You, Me and Diversity: Picture books for teaching development and intercultural education.
I also spoke to Dr. Clea Schmidt from the University of Manitoba and Dr. Antoinette Gagné of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
Sorry about the sound quality in some parts of this programme. I am using some new recording equipment and it's taking me a while to come to terms with it. Hopefully things will improve soon! Seán
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| 26 Nov 2014 | Programme 197, Early Years Education (26-11-14) | 00:27:14 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest was Professor Elizabeth Wood, from the University of Sheffield. She was in Ireland as a guest of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. She presented a keynote address at their conference on 24 November titled Early Mathematics is Surprisingly and Cognitively Fundamental.
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| 03 Dec 2014 | Programme 198, Doug Clements on Early Years Mathematics (3-12-14) | 00:27:57 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week my guest was Professor Doug Clements from the University of Denver. He had previously been a keynote speaker at the NCCA conference titled "Early Mathematics is surprisingly important and cognitively fundamental." He spoke about the importance and the surprises of early mathematical awareness and learning.
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| 10 Dec 2014 | Programme 199, Scifest & Irish Poetry (10-12-14) | 00:28:05 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week's programme featured interviews from the National Finals of Scifest, with its founder, Sheila Porter; a director, Peter Brabazon; and some of the prize winners.
It also featured Dr. Marie Whelton, from the Marino Institute of Education, reading her prize winning poem from the Irish National Teachers' Organisation Séamus Heaney Poetry Competition. You can read the text of the poem here by going to page 13.
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| 18 Dec 2014 | Programme 200, Review of 2014 & Preview of 2015 (17-12-14) | 00:28:38 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I am joined by Dr. Mary Fleming, Head of the School of Education at NUI Galway, to review 2014 and to look ahead to 2015 from an education perspective. NUI Galway was involved in the production of the eighth Education Matters Yearbook, which was launched by the Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O'Sullivan, earlier this month.
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| 21 Jan 2015 | Programme 201, Kevin Williams - Appreciating Teachers & Education Reform (21-1-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I spoke to Dr. Kevin Williams who recently retired as Senior Lecturer from Mater Dei Institute of Education. He is also a former president of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland and a research fellow at the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies. | |||
| 28 Jan 2015 | Programme 202, Kevin Williams Discusses "School Ethos" (28-1-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Kevin Williams who recently retired as
Senior Lecturer from Mater Dei Institute of Education.
He is also a former president of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland and a research fellow at the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies. On this week's programme he discusses matters related to the topic of school ethos. | |||
| 04 Feb 2015 | Programme 203, Rob Evans on Principalship (4-2-15) | 00:27:59 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme my guest is Dr. Rob Evans who was a keynote speaker at the 2015 annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network.
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| 11 Feb 2015 | Programme 204, Michael O'Leary on Assessment (11-2-14) | 00:28:33 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Dr. Michael O'Leary, from St. Patrick's College,
about assessment. Our conversation lasted longer than the programme so
I'll bring you the remainder of the interview on next week's programme. | |||
| 18 Feb 2015 | Programme 205, Assessment in Education & Fitness Testing in PE (18-2-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Michael O'Leary from St. Patrick's College on the topic of assessment. I also speak to Susan Marron from St. Patrick's College about the topic of fitness testing of children. Susan Marron is Chairperson of the Irish Primary PE Association.
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| 25 Feb 2015 | Programme 206, Massive Open Online Courses - MOOCs (25-2-15) | 00:28:00 | |
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.
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| 04 Mar 2015 | Programme 207, Mathletes & Tim Rylands (4-3-15) | 00:28:02 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
This programme was recorded at the 2015 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland which took place at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology on 27 and 27 February 2015. The first interview featured here is with Kelly Kirkpatrick from SOS Ventures and Martina Sexton from St. Peter's Primary School in Bray about Mathletes. The second is with the opening keynote speaker of the conference, Tim Rylands.
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| 11 Mar 2015 | Programme 208, Bianca Ní Ghrógáin at CESI (11-3-15) | 00:28:07 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme, Bianca Ní Ghrógáin tells me about her approach to teaching, how she became interested in tweeting and how she uses technology in the classroom. Her twitter handle is @bnighrogain
The interview was recorded at CESI 2015.
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| 18 Mar 2015 | Programme 209, Frank Furedi pt 1 (18-3-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
The guest on this week's
programme is sociologist and commentator Professor Frank Furedi who
discusses matters such as play, circle time, parental involvement in
education, and multiple intelligences. This is the first of a two-part
interview with Frank Furedi. | |||
| 25 Mar 2015 | Programme 210, Frank Furedi pt 2 (25-3-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Frank Furedi, where he discusses authority in teaching.
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| 01 Apr 2015 | Programme 211, Three Interviews from CESI 2015 (1-4-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I speak to three presenters from the 2015 annual meeting of the Computer Education Society of Ireland: Leanne Lynch from St. Mary's Convent Primary School in Nenagh, Richard Millwood from Trinity College Dublin, and Bernie Goldbach from the Youth Media Team.
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| 08 Apr 2015 | Programme 212, Joanne Gilmartin on IT in Education (8-4-15) | 00:28:11 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Joanne Gilmartin following her contribution to the 2015 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI) Teachmeet on the topic of augmented reality in the primary classroom.
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| 15 Apr 2015 | Programme 213, Andy Burke, Pt. 1 (15-4-15) | 00:28:10 | |
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.
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| 22 Apr 2015 | Programme 214, Andy Burke, pt. 2 (22-4-15) | 00:28:01 | |
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.
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| 29 Apr 2015 | Programme 215, Irish Education: The Ministerial Legacy, 1919-1999, pt 1 (29-4-15) | 00:28:01 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
The guest on this week's programme was educational historian Antonia McManus. She appeared on the programme to mark the publication by The History Press Ireland of her book Irish Education: The Ministerial Legacy, 1919-1999. On this part of the interview Antonia McManus describes how the dominant education policy for the first four decades of the new state was the promotion of the Irish language and how four ministers for education rather than just one helped bring about free second level education. The second part of the interview will be on next week's programme.
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| 06 May 2015 | Programme 216, Irish Education: The Ministerial Legacy, pt 2 (6-5-15) | 00:28:01 | |
Presented and produced by Sen Delaney.
This week I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Antonia McManus about the legacies of Irish ministers for education. It marks the publication of Irish Education: The Ministerial Legacy 1919-1999 written by Antonia McManus and published by The History Press Ireland.
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| 13 May 2015 | Programme 217, Technology in Education - A UK perspective (13-5-15) | 00:28:01 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Dughall McCormick, the Chairman of National Association of Advisors for Computers in Education - the British Equivalent of the Computer Education Society of Ireland.
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| 20 May 2015 | Programme 218, Áine Hyland & the Dalkey School Project (20-5-15) | 00:27:59 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
In this first part of a two-interview series with Professor Áine Hyland, she talks about her early school experiences and how she came to be involved in setting up the Dalkey School Project National School.
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| 27 May 2015 | Programme 219, Áine Hyland pt 2 (27-5-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Professor Áine Hyland. In it she talks about multiple intelligences, influencing policy, professional education and more.
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| 03 Jun 2015 | Programme 220, Rob Evans on Teacher Congeniality & Collegiality (3-6-15) | 00:28:01 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme, Rob Evans, who was a keynote speaker at the 2015 annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network (IPPN) discusses whether staff rooms in schools are congenial or collegial places and more.
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| 17 Jun 2015 | Programme 221, Marilyn Cochran-Smith on Teacher Education, pt 1 (10-6-15) | 00:28:00 | |
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. | |||
| 17 Jun 2015 | Programme 222, Marilyn Cochran-Smith on Teacher Education, pt 2 (17-6-15) | 00:28:00 | |
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.
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| 25 Jun 2015 | Programme 223, Catholic Education & Principals Preparing their Successors (24-6-15) | 00:28:01 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Fr. Ron Nuzzi from the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame. He was in Ireland to address the "Education in Crisis" conference in Mary Immaculate College in May this year. We spoke about Catholic education in the United States, about principals preparing their successors, and about multiple intelligences.
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| 01 Jul 2015 | Programme 224, Mags Amond on Learning to Teach, Teachmeets & More (1-7-15) | 00:28:10 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme my guest is Mags Amond, a recently retired science teacher, a prolific tweeter and the woman who introduced Teachmeets to Ireland. | |||
| 07 Oct 2015 | Programme 225, Literacy Teachmeet & Enirdelm Conference (7-10-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I interviewed presenters at the Teachmeet that was organised as part of the Literacy Association of Ireland 2015 conference.
The first person I spoke to was Susan Nic Réamoinn from Griffeen Valley Educate Together National School. She spoke about Sheppard Software, Michael Rosen's website and Teacher's Pet
Next I spoke to Mary Jo Bell from Mrs. Bell's Class about Flipsnackedu. Mary Jo also told me about how she uses Animoto.
Then I spoke to Ian Roller from DIT about their news website for Irish children called CLiC News.
Finally, from another conference, Enirdelm, I spoke to Tim Hurley from Drumcondra Education Centre.
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| 14 Oct 2015 | Programme 226, Making Reading Addictive (14-10-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
The guest on this week's programme was Catherine Gilliland from St. Mary's University College, Belfast. She was a keynote speaker at the 2015 annual conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland.
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| 21 Oct 2015 | Programme 227, Kathleen Lynch on Education and Social Justice (21-10-15) | 00:28:01 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest was Professor Kathleen Lynch, Head of the School of Social Justice at University College Dublin. She was a keynote speaker at the 2015 annual conference of the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS). | |||
| 01 Nov 2015 | Programme 228, John West-Burnham on Leadership & Change in Schools (28-10-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I spoke to Professor John West-Burnham who is an independent consultant in educational leadership and a Professor of Educational Leadership at | |||
| 04 Nov 2015 | Programme 229, Critical Thinking and Book Talk (4-11-15) | 00:28:03 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to Dr. Mary Roche who is the author of Developing Children’s Critical Thinking through Picturebooks. You can read more about her book | |||
| 11 Nov 2015 | Programme 230, Science Teaching and Scifest; & More on Picture Books (10-11-15) | 00:27:59 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme to mark National Science Week I visited the national finals of Scifest and spoke to its founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sheila Porter. I also spoke to two teachers, Catherine Tattersall from Sutton Park School and Dr. Katie Corbett from Skerries Community College.
I also bring you a final piece from my interview with Mary Roche, author of | |||
| 18 Nov 2015 | Programme 231, Universal Design for Learning with David Rose, Pt. 1 (18-11-15) | 00:28:00 | |
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest was the co-founder of CAST, and the developer of Universal Design for Learning, Dr. David Rose. He lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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