Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching

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...

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-projec...

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...

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.

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 .

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. In this podcast I speak to John Mighton the founder of JUMP Maths .

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.

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 wer...

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...

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...

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 .

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I speak to staff and students from Bridge 21 , an initiative to promote work that is project-based, team-oriented, and technology-mediated among post-primary students.

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 .

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 th...

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 .

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, Dr. Fionnuala Waldron from St. Patrick's College discusses the teaching of history.

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 .

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 .

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.

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 .

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 Irela...

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 potatoe...

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 t...

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.

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 .