"Listen to my story!" a little boy once told me, eyes shining as he held up a toy dinosaur. What followed was a winding tale about exploration, roaring volcanoes, and a surprisingly friendly T-Rex.
The photograph submitted as part of Trinity College Dublin's Green Week competition, titled “Mindfulness,” captures a deeply personal and reflective moment.
Ireland in winter is a magical place, with misty mornings, winding country roads and a promise of adventure at every turn. Over the past few weeks, my colleague and I packed up our notebooks, voice recorders and...
We all know that poetry exposes children to rich, varied vocabulary and helps them develop an ear for the rhymes and rhythm of language.
I am delighted to share my new article The storythinking programme: a framework for nurturing critical thinking in preschool which was published today (04/10/24) by Taylor & Francis Online.
Critical thinking, a multifaceted cognitive process, is more crucial than ever in the digital age. It involves listening, comprehension, understanding information from multiple viewpoints, comparing the information to what you know and looking at new information to find out how accurate (or fake) the information might be.
Congratulations to all of our PhD and D.Ed students who graduated. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours. This year’s doctoral commencement at Trinity College Dublin was a momentous occasion, filled with pride, joy, and a sense of accomplishment.
June 14th, 2024, marked a day that I will cherish forever, my PhD graduation. It was a culmination of intense study, sleepless nights, and (for much of it) not really knowing what I was doing.
Dyslexia is a word used to describe a learning disability that commonly affects reading, writing and related skills, such as the use of language, articulation and grammar. However, this blog will not examine reading, writing or language use. Instead, it highlights the impact of dyslexia on self-esteem.
To summarise a complex topic, all humans think it is our nature to do so, but left unexamined, thinking can be biased, misinformed and prejudiced. Socratic questioning in education is a way of questioning that minimise the chance that student will accept information at face value.