Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching

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 this year.

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 Ireland and you can listen to his address here.

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 potatoes, Cue prompter, I Said What?!, Audioboo, Software: Audacity,