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