Rannóg

Department of Global Diversity, Sustainability & Intercultural Education

Role

Lecturer

Qualifications

D.Ed, (2012) Trinity College Dublin

M.Ed, (1994) Trinity College Dublin

B.Ed, (1988) TCD, Froebel College of Education.

Publications and other outputs

Books

Bacon, K. (2018). Neillí [Mulcahy], daughter of two revolutionaries, fashion radical, my mother. BSA Auto/biography Yearbook.

Bacon, K . & Seery A. (2016). Women of the Irish revolution in discursive self-representation. BSA Auto/biography Yearbook.

Book Chapters

Bacon, K. & Seery A. (2020). Auto/biographical Research and the family. In J. M. Parsons & A. Chappell (Eds) The Palgrave Handbook on auto/biography (pp. 143-156), Palgrave Macmililan.

Journal Articles

Pike, S., Austin, A., Greenwood R., & Bacon, K. (2023). Inquiry in teacher education: experiences of lecturers and student teachers, Irish Educational Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2023.2189139

Greeenway, R., Austin, S., Bacon, K., & Pike , S. (2020). Enquiry-Based Learning in the Primary Classroom: student teachers’ perceptions. Education 3-13, 50(3), 404-418. 10.1080/03004279.2020.1853788

Bacon, K. & Matthews, P. (2014). Inquiry-based learning with young learners: A pierce-based model employed to critique a unit of inquiry on maps and mapping. Irish Educational Studies, 33(4), 351-365.  10.1080/03323315.2014.983303

Professional Journal Articles

Bacon K. & Horan N. (2021). Visual Arts as a stimulus for Inquiry. InTouch May 2021. Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (pp. 40-41).

Bacon K. & Austin S. (2021). Curiouser and Curiouser – local inquiry in the natural and built environment. InTouch March/April 2021. Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (pp. 38-39).

Bacon K. & Bedford A. (2021). A Reservoir of Ideas. InTouch Jan/Feb 2021. Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (pp. 56-57).

Research Reports

Bacon K. & Cox E. (2022). Reaping the rewards of an inner city garden. Working Notes Issue 91 September 2022 (pp. 31-39). Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.

Bacon, K. (2018). How do we coherently express an intention of curriculum integration in a re-devised Primary School Curriculum? Paper commissioned by the NCCA.

Conference Contributions

Bacon, K. (2022, July) Children have not been heard in their own words or have they? [Paper presentation]. BSA Auto/biography study group conference, Oxford.

Bacon, K. & Seery A. (2019, July). A Dublin 1930s Childhood. [Paper presentation]. BSA Auto/biography study group conference, Oxford.

Bacon, K., (2018, July). Neillí [Mulcahy], daughter of two revolutionaries, fashion radical, my mother. [Paper presentation]. BSA Auto/biography study group conference, Oxford.

Bacon. K., and Ryan, M. (2017, January). “A pusher who always wanted to be in the centre of things”. [Paper presentation]. Glasnevin Cemetery Winter Lecture series.

Webinar

Bacon, K. (2021, October). Personalised Learning: A Framework for re-imagining Education. Teaching and Learning Forum 2021. Education Development Institute, Qatar.

Other Outputs

Bacon, K., (2022, November 10) How can IBL help present and teach the Curriculum in a coherent way? Thinking, talking and wondering about Inquiry. Presentation for PDST.

Research/Professional Interests

Inquiry Based Learning; Auto/Biographical Research; Integrated Models of curriculum; SESE education for young learners.