March 11, 2020

Podcast 393, Professor Kathy Hall (11-3-20)

1 hour 11 minutes

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I'm delighted to speak to Professor Kathy Hall from University College Cork. In a wide-ranging discussion about teaching, teacher education, research and policy, the topics raised include the following:

Becoming a primary teacher in Carysfort College

Doing a Bachelor in Arts degree in University College Dublin, with many other primary teachers, followed by a H.Dip

Returning to Carysfort to do a postgraduate diploma course in special educational needs

Starting a Masters degree in Trinity College, transferring to complete and PhD and becoming a teacher educator in Christchurch Canterbury College

Moving to Leeds Metropolitan University and subsequently to the Open University and two years later to University College Cork

Her doctoral dissertation on the topic of discovery learning and first language learning

Her book, Listening to Stephen Read and its implications for teaching reading

Why some children leave school with limited literacy

The relationship between policy and teaching literacy

How the market influences education in Ireland

Assessing student teachers’ preparedness to teach literacy

Summative and formative Assessment – Black and William Important Review on Formative Assessment

Can anyone teach?

The relationship between skills, practice and reflection in teaching

School and University roles in teacher education

The unifying theme across all her research

Discourse analysis as a research method and what you can learn about classrooms from using this method. In this framework she refers to the IRF – initiation, response and feedback – pattern of classroom interaction.

Doctoral research topics

How different opportunities to learn can exist within the same classroom

Problems with competitive classrooms

Advice she would give the Minister for Education

Etienne Wenger Communities of Practice book

Tara Westover Educated

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