IPDA Ireland hosts Journal Club with Melissa Parker
September 18, 2024
On 26th September 2024, IPDA Ireland hosting the fourth event in our Journal Club Series entitled: ‘Journaling where we have not journaled before’.
IPDA Ireland vice-chair, Dr Eimear Holland hosted the event. After journal club delegates explored the themes of the paper together, they were joined by one of the lead authors, Dr Melissa Parker, for a question and answer based discussion.
Host: Dr Eimear Holland
Journal Paper: Parker et al. (2016) Signature pedagogies in support of teachers’ professional learning.
This series offers the opportunity to explore seminal and / or recently published high-quality research in the area of professional learning. The paper selection process is shaped in consultation with the IPDA Ireland community regarding current topics of interest and need. Engaging and provocative dialogic activities will be informed by the pre-reading of a selected paper, accompanied by key thinking points shared on Twitter in the lead-up to the event. Given the opportunity to explore, debate and critically evaluate, attendees will co-construct a deeper grasp of the paper’s strengths and areas for development, considering the implications it has for them and the wider PL profession’s policy, practice and research processes. Authors of the selected paper are invited to join us towards the latter end of the event to field questions and promote even deeper thinking and dialogue about the topic.
Journal Lead Author’s Biography:
Dr Melissa Parker is Former Senior lecturer Emeritus at University of Limerick. Her scholarly areas of interest include accessing teacher and student voice, the professional learning of teachers and teacher educators, the study of constructivist learning, and the pedagogies that support that learning. In particular she has combined these interests into the creation, design, implementation, and study of before, after and during school physical education and physical activity programmes. Furthermore, her work has focused on the pedagogical conditions necessary to foster independent learning, voice, and student learning in these environments. A list of some of Missy’s publications (Research Gate).
Journal Club Host’s Biography: Dr Eimear Holland is an assistant professor and professional placement coordinator in the Institute of Education, Dublin City University. Her teaching and research is underpinned by and promotes the deliberate and prospective design and facilitation of transformative professional learning pedagogies as informed by learning theories and meta-design philosophies. Such professional learning and research facilitation spans across domains and teaching sectors, which amongst other things, develops participatory action learning action research-based communities of practice. Her doctoral and recent works have developed the meta-design of transformative professional learning models and the impact upon professionals’ fluencies in the languages of critique, possibility and leadership for change.
