IPDA Ireland begins Journal Club Series: ‘Journaling where we have not journaled before’
June 1, 2021
This was the inaugural event in a Journal Club Series entitled: ‘Journaling where we have not journaled before’. The event took place on 31st May 2021, hosted by Professor Anne Looney.
This series offers the opportunity to explore recently published high quality research in the area of professional learning and development (PLD). 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. 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 PLD profession’s policy, practice and research processes.
Journal Club Host’s Biography: Professor Anne Looney is the Executive Dean of Dublin City University’s Institute of Education, Ireland’s largest faculty of education. From 2001 until 2016 she was the CEO of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, the agency responsible for curriculum and assessment for early years, primary and post-primary education in Ireland. She also held the position of Interim CEO at the Higher Education Authority until March 2017. Her current research interests include assessment policy and practice, curriculum, teacher identity and professional standards for teachers and teaching. She has also published on religious, moral and civic education, and education policy. She has been a team member for reviews for the OECD on school quality and assessment systems, and acts as a technical expert for the European Commission on projects in initial teacher education. She is the current president of the International Professional Development Association. She is a board member of Early Childhood Ireland, and the Ark Cultural Centre for Children.
Journal Author’s Biography: Gert Biesta is a Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Agder, Norway, and Uniarts, the University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland. Gert is co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal, co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, and associate editor of Educational Theory. He co-edited two book series with Routledge: Theorizing Education (with Stefano Oliverio), and New Directions in the Philosophy of Education (with Michael A. Peters and Liz Jackson).
