Barbara O'Toole
Contact
- Telephone
- 353 1 853 5126
- Email
- barbara.otoole@mie.ie
- Location
- St Mary's, Room 109
Rannog/Section
Inclusive Education / SESE
Qualifications
B.Ed., M.Ed., M.A.
Teaching
Inclusive Education (Special Educational Needs; Intercultural and Development Education.
Elective Course: ‘Teaching English as an additional language’
Designer of on-line in-service courses: ‘Teaching English as an additional language'.
Research / Professional Interests
Special Educational Needs; Intercultural Education; Teaching children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties; Teacher Education; Development Education; Human Rights Education.
Publications
(2006)‘What makes a global teacher?- Examining student responses to development and intercultural education.’Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review’ Issue 3, October 2006. (Also presented at conference in Dublin City University, March 2006, ‘Linking the Global and the Local’);
(2006) ‘My machete is my pen: some aspects of literacy education in Nicaragua’, Reading News, Reading Association of Ireland (co-authored with Niamh McGuirk), December, 2006.
(2006) ‘Equal Measures’. Department of Education and Science gender equality teaching pack, May 2006 (co-authored with Declan Fahie and Edel Meaney);
(2005) Poster presentation: ‘Some challenges to “valuing difference”’, Curriculum Development Unit Citizenship Education conference, Dublin, November 2005.
(2005) ‘Using fiction in development and intercultural education’. in ‘Cross Currents: A Guide to Multicultural Books for Children and Young People’, September, 2005.
(2005)‘An Intercultural Approach to Education’.Spectrum, Issue 9, Quarterly publication of NCCRI (National Consultative Council on Race and Interculturalism), July 2005.