Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching

By Sean Delaney

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May 29, 2019Programme 368, John P. Miller on Holistic Education, pt 2 (29-5-19)
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Theme tune by David Vesey
On this week's programme I bring you the second and final part of my interview with Professor John P. Miller from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. John P. Miller is the author of The Holistic Curriculum, the third edition of which was recently published. Among the matters we discussed on the programme this week were:
The importance of examining our beliefs
The soul as the unconditioned self
The connection between holistic education and mental health
The relationship between holistic education and affective education, humanistic education, confluent education and transpersonal education.
The Holistic Ed Review started by Ron Miller
The lack of university programmes in holistic education up to doctoral level
What school is for
The Sudbury Valley School
People mentioned by John P. Miller
Suzuki Roshi (Zen mind beginner’s mind)
Richard Alpert – Ram Dass
Joseph Goldstein (meditation)
Norman Feldman (meditation)
Books/authors mentioned on the programme:
Education and Ecstasy by George Leonard.
Carl Rogers Freedom to Learn
The Tao Te Ching
Emerson’s essays
Thoreau’s Walden & On Civil Disobedience and his journals
Maslow Toward a Psychology of Being
Parker Palmer The Courage to Teach
Gregory Cajete. His book is Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education (1994).
Embers by Richard Wagamese
Ron Miller What are schools for?
Handbook on Holistic Education edited by John P. Miller et al.
Love and Compassion: Exploring their role in Education by John P. Miller
The Magic of Conflict by Thomas Crumm
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28min
May 22, 2019Programme 367, John P. (Jack) Miller on Holistic Education (22-5-19)
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Theme tune by David Vesey
On this week's programme I speak to John P. (Jack) Miller, of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and author of of The Holistic Curriculum, about holistic education. Among the topics discussed on the programme are:
What is holistic education?
In a tradition from indigenous people, Buddha, Socrates, Plato, Rousseau, Emerson, Thoreau, Peabody and Tolstoy up to Waldorf, Montessori and Reggio Emilia.
How The Equinox Holistic School in Toronto was inspired by and follows the ideas in Miller’s book, The Holistic Curriculum. The story of the school is told here.
Use of textbooks and a holistic curriculum
What is the experience of a holistic curriculum like for a student?
Autonomy for children in holistic education settings
Characteristics of teachers to teach holistically
Difference between teaching a subject holistically and teaching the same subject conventionally
Planning for holistic teaching
James Bean and integrated curriculum
Susan Drake and integrated curriculum
Relationship between holistic education and wisdom
The difference between contemplation and reflection and mindfulness
Religious education and spirituality education
The work of Thomas Moore on Spirituality and Education; also Parker Palmer and Rachel Kessler
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28min
May 15, 2019Programme 366, Teaching Science, Going to College & More (15-5-19)
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 Professor Barbara Schneider from Michigan State University. Among the topics discussed this week are the following:
The need to review the Irish science curriculum in line with other countries
How can a curriculum value both knowing and doing, especially doing
Her upcoming book titled, Learning Science (2020)
The role of family and school in aligning one’s education with one’s career choice (“aligned ambitions”) and how this led to the “College Ambition Program.”
Enhancing one’s career prospects with a “dual degree”
Educational outcomes v occupational outcomes
Fluidity of careers and implications for developing curriculum materials
How media influence career choices
Career paths of females
A typical working day for her
What schools are for
Two books she regularly returns to are Foundations of Social Theory and Flow
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28min
May 08, 2019Programme 365, Barbara Schneider on the Sociology of Education (8-5-19)
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Theme tune by David Vesey
This week on the programme my guest is Professor Barbara Schneider from Michigan State University. She uses sociology and psychology in her work and talks about how that works. She discusses optimal learning moments in science teaching and learning and about helping students make transitions from middle school to high school. Here are my notes on some of the topics discussed:
How sociology has always about equal educational opportunity, access and social justice
The development of adolescence in context
How relationships created in school affect the inequality students experience in schools
Why relational trust in school is so important
The importance of student welfare
How they studied flow in the classroom
Converting flow into “optimal learning moments”
The “in it to win it” app and the College Ambition Program
How teachers can prepare for “optimal learning moments”
Why it’s important for children to learn science at school
A hybrid model of professional development for teachers
Problems with poorly-equipped science labs in schools
Find out more about driving questions and project-based learning here.
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28min
May 01, 2019Programme 364, Lin Goodwin on Teacher Education (Part 2)
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 Professor Lin Goodwin from the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. We continue the discussion we began on last week's programme about mentoring and progress onto other topics. Among the matters discussed this week are:
How to recognise when the moment is right for mentor input
What trends she perceives in the future of mentoring
Rounds as a practice in teacher education
Her work as Dean
How she uses her teaching skills in her work as Dean
Looking at education and teaching across cultures
Ruth Wong
Who and what inspires her
When I asked A. Lin Goodwin for her favourite book about education, she nominated, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, a book that was also recommended by Karen Hammerness when I spoke to her.
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28min
April 24, 2019Programme 363, Lin Goodwin on Mentoring
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 learn to mentor
Her experiences of being mentored by Celia Genishi
The kind of honesty that mentors need to have
The kind of feedback that is helpful
Skills and behaviours of mentors
Mentoring future researchers
Mentoring future teachers
Mentors learning from mentees
Letting mentees make mistakes
Problems if a mentor is reluctant to give candid feedback
Why having a framework or a mindset is better than having a formula for giving feedback
Getting away from looking at teaching dichotomously
Mentors for different occasions
Reluctant mentees
Some moments are more productive for mentoring than others
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28min
April 17, 2019Programme 362, Education in Cambodia (17-4-19)
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 Byrne went to live and work in Cambodia
The state of education in Cambodia
Why teachers matter more than buildings at this time
Learning English in Cambodia
Children dropping out of school after second class
Support from the INTO, Irish Aid and Horseware
Horseware
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28min
April 10, 2019Programm 361, Tasks, Mathematics, Questioning and Research
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 classroom was set up at the University of Melbourne
The social unit of learning research project
The layout of the laboratory classroom
Negotiating of meaning in mathematics tasks (e.g. meaning of average)
Using open ended tasks in teaching mathematics
Marking answers to open ended mathematical tasks
Involving students in assessing
Sources of open-ended tasks
If the area of an apartment is 60 square metres, what might the five-room apartment look like?
Picture a bar graph where all you have are the bars and the axes but no labels of any sort. What might this be a bar graph of? Label the bar graph and explain what information is contained in the graph.
The average age of a family of five people is 25 and one of them is the same age as you. Who might the people be? What are their ages? And how are they related to one another?
The average of five numbers is 17.2. What might the five numbers be?
A number is rounded off to 5.3. What might the number be?
The difference between good questions and good questioning
Asking the question, “what is your utility function?” (i.e. that which is maximised by a system)
Recognising the learning potential of student voice and cultural differences in how student voice is promoted and elicited
Finding tasks that link to the curriculum
The Lexicon project
Among the collaborators named by David and Esther were Peter Sullivan, and Neil Mercer. He also mentioned this paper on "initiating and Eliciting in Teaching: A reformulation of Telling" by Joanne Lobato, David Clarke and Amy Burns Ellis.
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29min
April 03, 2019 Programme 360, Choosing Postgraduate Courses in Education (3-4-19)
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 ideas raised, leave an idea on the programme's website or on Twitter using the handle, @insideed.
One website mentioned on the programme is the MOOC, Coursera.
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28min
March 27, 2019Programme 359, Thomas Moore on Spirituality Education (27-3-19)
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 colours, sounds, images and textures around you matter when you learn
Source of curriculum: What does it mean to be an educated person?
What it requires of each of us to be human, to be good citizens
The spiritual nature of humans in our search for meaning
Having students go on a “pilgrimage” back to their childhood to get in touch with their essential selves
Aspects of spirituality religions have traditionally ignored in their emphases on dogmatism and moralism
Exploring basic questions through literature and the arts
He referred to Homer’s Odyssey, Horton Foote's play The Trip to Bountiful, and the poets Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and John Keats.
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28min

FAQs about Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching:

How many episodes does Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching have?

The podcast currently has 318 episodes available.