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Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This week I am joined by University College Dublin School of Education Professor, Ciaran Sugrue, to discuss child-centred education, school leadership and educational research in Ireland. Among the topics we discuss are: Children-centred education Lack of mobility for teachers Privileging good relations in school Unmasking school leadership Continuous professional development – changes over the last two decades Despite Ireland's size, how schools vary a lot The value of teachers collaborating on projects His tenure as editor of Irish Educational Studies His thoughts about educational research in Ireland

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I am joined again by Dr. Karen Hammerness who is the Director of Edcuational research and Evaluation at the American Museum of Natural History. This week we talk about the Museum as a site for education, including teacher education and we hear about the innovative programmes the museum has in place for educating people in and about science. Among the topics discussed this week are: The education programmes of the Museum Museum-based teacher education Learning about teaching and teacher education in Norway Outdoor education in Norway Building community in school What school is for What inspires her Books that have influenced her (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures and Metaphors We Live By)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I speak to one of the most prominent scholars of teacher education in the United States, Dr. Karen Hammerness. Dr. Hammerness is the Director of Educational Research and Evaluation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where I met up with her recently. She has conducted research into teachers' visions and into teacher education and these were the topics we discussed in this part of our interview. The specific points covered include: What teacher education programmes can learn from each other How clinical work is becoming part of teacher education How to evaluate or “get to know” a teacher education programme Preparing teachers for specific kinds of school settings How she would design a brand new teacher education programme How would you design a school that mentored novice teachers How do you decide if a teacher is ready for independent practice in a classroom? The importance of a teacher having a vision for their work Wha

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,  

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to online strength and fitness coach Mike Vacanti who runs the On the Regimen website. He also has his own YouTube Channel, which contains hundreds of vlogs and videos about health and fitness. I speak to Mike about his own physical education and about his participation in the Ultimate Sweat Challenge. Among the topics discussed are: His own physical and health education What would he prioritise in a physical education curriculum What kept him motivated to continue with sport through his teen years and beyond What would he say to a child who works hard at sport but who is never picked for the team His thoughts on motivating people who are not interested in physical education to be more participative in the subject How he plans videos on his website to make them educational His role as mentor for the Ultimate Sweat endeavour What he learned as mentor for the Ultimate Sweat Why consistency trumps perfection Mike referred to websites he f

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

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with someone who was listed as one of the most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century, Professor Jerome Kagan of Harvard University. In the course of this interview we discuss some of Professor Kagan's recent publications. The topics covered included: Psychology's Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Stress Language and phenomena in psychology The crisis in psychology and what can be done about it The biggest unanswered question of all in developmental psychology Unresolved issues in human morality Five Constraints on Predicting Behavior

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

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.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I am in conversation with five people asking them questions about education. I begin with Dr Pádraig Hogan, a Senior Lecturer in Maynooth University and then I speak to the authors of a new book on educational research titled Learning Communities in Educational Partnerships: Action Research as Transformation. The authors are Máirín Glenn, Mary Roche, Caitríona McDonagh and Bernie Sullivan and they coordinate Educational Action Research Ireland. Among the books mentioned on the programme are the following: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner An Experiment in Education by Sybil Marshall This book doesn’t make ... by Jean Augur

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme my guest is teacher educator and philosopher Dr. Pádraig Hogan of the Department of Education at Maynooth University. I spoke to Pádraig at the annual conference of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland. Among the topics we discussed in a wide-ranging interview were: The purpose of schools Truth and education Teaching as a way of life Learning as a way of life for teachers Supervision on school placement Challenging our prejudices as teachers and teacher educators Deference and difference in education Ethics and education Ethics and teaching Becoming a discerning reader of your own teaching

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I speak to two keynote speakers from the 2018 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland, Elizabeth Oldham and Richard Millwood, both from Trinity College Dublin. They discuss the past, present and future of the organisation and among other topics Richard discusses how computational thinking relates to teaching the visual arts. 

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme my guest is Joanna Norton, a lecturer at the University of the Arts in London. In the course of our interview she told me about the App she developed called Keywords Biology.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney   This week I speak to the Chairperson of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI), Adrienne Webb, about the new Leaving Certificate course in Computer Science and other matters. During the interview we discuss how CESI has been working with various players, such as the NCCA and the PDST, to facilitate the smooth introduction of the syllabus; Adrienne tells us about how she became interested in technology; she discusses resources for teaching computer science; and she describes her approach to working with technology in school.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to lecturer in mathematics and programming at LIT (Tipperary Campus), Pamela O'Brien. Among the topics we discuss are: Her workshop on “Breakoutedu” Her job at LIT – Tipperary Campus The ICT in Education Conference The difference between coding and computer science Transitions she made from working in insurance to lecturing and from mathematics to computer science How teachers can become more involved in coding Who inspires her Why she likes EDCHATIE

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with primary teacher and mathematics teacher educator, Claire Corroon. You can access resources and opinions about mathematics teaching on her website, Primary CPD. Among the topics we discuss this week are the following: Her Views on Curriculum Revision in primary mathematics Differentiation in mathematics Assessment in mathematics Mathematics curricula in other countries Jerome Bruner Singapore Maths Sherry Parrish (https://twitter.com/numbertalks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Jo Boaler Marilyn Burns Christina Tondevold Graham Fletcher (three act tasks for maths) The usefulness of mini-whiteboards

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. This week my guest on the programme is Claire Corroon a primary teacher and teacher educator with a particular interest in mathematics education. She has many resources on her website, Primary CPD, where she also blogs. In this, the first part of our interview, among the topics discussed are: How she got involved in mathematics education Courses she gives for teachers in summer and at evenings Number talks Concrete, pictorial and abstract representations in mathematics Her approach to teaching tables

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. This week I conclude my interview with Dr. Alf Coles from the School of Education at the University of Bristol. Among the topics we discuss this week are:   Planning for the unexpected in mathematics classes His work with the charity “Five by Five by Five Equals Creativity” Using Cuisenaire rods and a tens chart to teach mathematics How the number naming system in the English language makes learning mathematics more difficult and what you can do about it Using the tens chart to teach decimals How our current curriculum limits children’s understanding of number Creativity in primary school mathematics What inspires him Whose work in education he likes to read What he would change about his current institution How his own schooling influences his practice in education today

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme my guest is Dr. Alf Coles from the University of Bristol School of Education. Among the topics discussed are:   What teachers learn from using video Responding to video through description versus judgment Using video clubs for teacher professional development The centre for researching education across boundaries Who was Caleb Gattegno What is the Silent Way of learning a language What is an energy budget for learning? Four stages of awareness Inventing the geoboard Book, What we owe children by Caleb Gattegno How he became a teacher educator How he balances his teaching and research work How he practices teacher education Greg Simon’s blog: https://gregsimonmusic.com/blog/ Gregory Bateson: https://mri.org/gregory-bateson/

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Páiríc Clerkin, the Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Primary Principals' Network (IPPN). In this part of the interview our conversation covers topics such as: What the IPPN does How he finds the role of CEO of the IPPN What teachers should think about before applying for roles as principal or deputy principal How will job of principal be different in ten years’ time to what it is today What inspires him What he likes to read/listen to Changes he’d make in the IPPN The five minute bench break How his own education influences his work as an educator