Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey On this week's programme I interview Professor A. Lin Goodwin , Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong and formerly of Teachers College , Columbia University about mentoring and teaching. Among the topics we discuss are the following: What mentoring is and is not Everyone can be a mentor but people need to le...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey This week on the programme I speak to Colm Byrne who graduated as a primary teacher from Marino Institute of Education in 2003 and two colleagues Sophen and Sowuen from Cambodia about education in Cambodia. They all work for the non governmental organisation See Beyond Borders . Among the topics we discuss are the following: How Colm...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey This week I am joined on the programme by Professor David Clarke and Dr. Man Ching Esther Chan from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne . We discussed many aspects of research and teaching, with a focus on mathematics, tasks, questioning and language. Among the topics discussed were: Why a laboratory class...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey This week on the programme I explore the area of postgraduate study in education. Why do a postgraduate accredited course? Where to do it? When is a good time to do it? How to choose it and ways to do it? Who to study with? Such courses are addressed to the extent that they can be within a 30-minute course. To respond to any of the i...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey This week my guest is Thomas Moore who gave a talk on "The Inner Landscape of the Educator in Difficult Times" in Marino Institute of Education earlier this year. Among the topics we discussed are: How as a culture we prefer training to education and the differences between them Where he would like education to take place Why the col...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey On this week's programme I bring you some interviews I recorded at the 2019 annual conference of the Irish Primary PE Association which was held in the Watershed, Kilkenny on 9 March. First I spoke to Dr. Liam Clohessy, who is chair of the Association and Cameron Stewart who is a member of the Scottish Association of Teachers of Phys...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey On this week's programme I bring you more from my interview with Professor Gert Biesta , who is Professor of Public Education at Maynooth University . What comes through in everything he says is the respect and love he has for teaching. Among the wide range of topics we discuss are the following: Who he writes for when he writes abou...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey On this week's programme I speak to Gert Biesta who is Professor of Public Education at Maynooth University . Among the topics we discuss on the programme are: Why he took up a position in Ireland The work of the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University How he’ll get to know the Irish education system How teach...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme music by David Vesey This week I bring you my third and final episode from the 2019 annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network . First of all I step inside the Aquaculture Remote Classroom to find out what's in store for schools when the mobile classroom visits and I speak to John Hurley of H2 Learning who was involved in designing the e...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey On this week's programme I continue my conversation on teaching literacy in the early years with Dr. Tara Concannon-Gibney from Dublin City University . The occasion was to mark the publication by Routledge of Tara's book Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers . Among the to...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey The guest on this week's programme is Dr. Tara Concannon Gibney who is an assistant professor in Dublin City University . The interview is to mark the launch of Tara's new book Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers , which is published by Routledge. Among the topics we disc...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. Theme tune by David Vesey. On this week's programme, the guests were two of the keynote speakers from the 2019 annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network, the IPPN, Adam Harris and Patrick O'Shea. Adam Harris is the Chief Executive Officer of AsIAm , an organisation set up to give people with autism a voice. My conversation with Adam included...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey. This week I bring you the first of my interviews recorded at the 2019 annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network . The theme of the conference was Sustainable Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities. My interview today is with the Chief Executive Officer of the Network, Páiric Clerkin. Among the various topics discu...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Paul O'Donnell, Principal of St. Patrick's National School in Slane . Among the topics we discuss on this week's programme are: His work with the CPSMA Numbers applying for principalship Principals acting as gatekeepers Challenges of being a principal with full...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey On this week's programme I speak to Paul O'Donnell who is principal of St. Patrick's National School in Slane , Co. Meath. He is the author of Wild Teaching: Cross-curricular Lessons Outdoors for Agoraphobic Teachers which is published by Meath County Council. Among the topics we discussed are: How his upbringing fostered a love of t...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune David Vesey On this week's programme I speak to two teacher educators, Anja Swennen from the University of Amsterdam and Professor Kay Livingston from the University of Glasgow. Kay Livingston talks about innovative teaching with specific reference to a cross-European research study she is conducting with colleagues in her Research Development Comm...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme music by David Vesey On this week's programme I discuss teacher education with Anja Swennen from the VU University, Amsterdam . I met up with her at the annual conference of the Association for Teacher Education of Europe in Gavle, Sweden in August 2018. Among the topics we discuss in this part of the interview are the following: Jean Murray ’s idea of...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme music composed and arranged by David Vesey This week I bring you the second part of my interview with Katie Ashford Deputy Head of Michaela Community School in Wembley Park in London. The wide range of topics we discuss include the following: Michaela Community School Building The Teach First Programme Starting a blog, which led to a job offer Personali...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. Theme music composed and arranged by David Vesey. On this week's programme I speak to Katie Ashford who is Deputy Head and Director of Inclusion at Michaela Community School in Wembley Park London. Her blog is called Tabula Rasa . We talk about school culture and other aspects of teaching. In the course of our discussion Katie mentions how she is inspired by...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme music composed and arranged by David Vesey On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Professor Anne O'Gara, former President of Marino Institute of Education and current board member of Tusla . Among the topics we cover in this part of the interview are: The role for inspectors in our education system Giving and receiving...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme music composed and arranged by David Vesey On this week's programme I speak to my friend and former colleague, Professor Anne O'Gara. Professor O'Gara was President of Marino Institute of Education from 2006 to 2018. Prior to that she taught in primary schools for several years before becoming Assistant National Coordinator of the Home-School-Community...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune composed and arranged by David Vesey On this week's programme I bring you new excerpts from guests who featured on recent programmes: Frank McNally who is the main contributor to the Irishman's Diary column in The Irish Times , was a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland . David Powell from the University o...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to the main author of An Irishman's Diary in The Irish Times , Frank McNally. Frank was a keynote speaker at the 42nd annual conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland . Among the topics covered in the interview are the following: Why Frank's family members were known by the nickname the “College” McNallys. Among nativ...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune composed and arranged by David Vesey On this week's programme I speak to Ray Gallon of the Transformation Society about education outside the formal settings of school. I interviewed Ray at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe . Among the topics we discuss are the following: How the phrase “knowledge is powe...

 Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme music composed and arranged by David Vesey. On this week's programme I speak to Arjen Wals from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands where he is Professor of Transformative Learning for Socioecological Sustainability/UNESCO Chair. He was a keynote speaker at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Teacher Education of Europe , whic...