Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I speak to highly respected teacher educator and professor of teacher education, Ken Zeichner from the University of Washington . He was in Ireland to address attendees at the annual conference of the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS) .

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. This week I am joined by Brian Mooney to discuss how school leavers can plan their career and the kind of steps in that direction that can be taken during their final year in school. Brian is a guidance counsellor in Oatlands College , the editor of the Education Matters Yearbook 2015-2016 and a columnist with the Irish Times . He is also the author of Start...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I am joined by Brian Mooney, who edited the Education Matters Yearbook 2015-2016 . He is also a Guidance Counsellor at Oatlands College and a columnist with The Irish Times .

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to three of the authors of the book Enhancing Practice through Classroom Research: A Teacher's Guide to Professional Development . I spoke to Caitriona McDonagh, Mary Roche and Bernie Sullivan. Máirín Glenn is the fourth author. The mentioned the website they developed together, Educational Action Researchers in Ireland to bui...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to Professor Sharon Todd who is Head of the Maynooth University Department of Education .

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I spoke to Stephen Murgatroyed who is an educator and describes himself as a "futurist." He is an expert on innovation policy and practice.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. David Rose of CAST where he talks about Universal Design for Learning and schools having a "print disability." Dr. Barbara O'Toole , who is coordinator of the Masters in Education Studies (Intercultural Education) programme at the Marino Institute of Education discusses some of the...

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 .

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,...

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

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

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).

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 .

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 B...

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.

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 int...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 w...

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 .