Brendan Walsh
Dr
Brendan Walsh FRHistS . B.A., University College Dublin, 1989:
H.Dip.Ed., University College Dublin, 1990:
Diploma in Montessori Education, St. Nicholas College, 1992:
Masters in Education,University College Dublin, 1995:
PhD (University College Dublin) 2005:
PhD (Cantab.) 2015.
Dr. Walsh worked as a post-primary school teacher from 1989-2000 teaching English, History, Geography and Classical Studies. He lectures in the fields of History of Education, Education Policy and Classroom Practice. Dr Walsh was inaugural Head of the School of Policy and Practice at the Faculty of Education and is a Research Fellow at the Center for Evaluation, Quality and Inspection at Dublin City University.
Recent Publications: The “Haunting Silence”: autobiographical accounts of secondary teaching in twentieth-century Ireland, Paedagogica Historica, September 2020, 1-18
Forthcoming: (ed.) Educational Policy in Ireland 1922 to the Present (Palgrave Macillan, 2021)
Recent Publications: The “Haunting Silence”: autobiographical accounts of secondary teaching in twentieth-century Ireland, Paedagogica Historica, September 2020, 1-18
Forthcoming: (ed.) Educational Policy in Ireland 1922 to the Present (Palgrave Macillan, 2021)
Book
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Brendan Walsh (2014) 'Introduction' In: Knowing Their Place?. Ireland : History Press. | |
| 2016 | Brendan Walsh (2016) 'Teachers’ experience of school: first-hand accounts 1943–1965' In: Essays in the History of Irish Education. UK : Palgrave. | |
| 2016 | Brendan Walsh (2016) '‘Injurious to the best interests of education’? Teaching and learning under the Intermediate Education System 1878-1922' In: Essays in the History of Irish Education. UK : Palgrave. | |
| 2014 | Brendan J. Walsh (2014) 'Knowing Their Place? Girls' Perceptions of School in Nineteenth-Century Ireland' In: Brendan Walsh(Eds.). Knowing Their Place? The Intellectual Life of Women in the Nineteenth-Century. Dublin : History Press, Ireland. | |
| 2013 | Silvia Nikolaeva, Carmel Mulcahy, Ger Scanlon (2013) 'The Yakademy: Challenging the Corporate University' In: Towards Transformative Education: a multidisciplinary perspective on research and practice in Bulgaria and Ireland. Dublin : Dublin City University. | |
| 2012 | Brendan J. Walsh (2012) 'The Yakademy: Challenging the Nonsense of the Corporate University' In: Silvia Nikolaeva, Carmel Mulcahy, Ger Scanlon(Eds.). Towards Transformative Education: a multidisciplinary perspective on research and practice in Bulgaria and Ireland. : Sophia University / Dublin City University. | |
| 2012 | Brendan J. Walsh (2012) 'Degrees of Nonsense' In: Brendan Walsh(Eds.). Degrees of Nonsense: The Demise of the University in Ireland. Dublin : Glasnevin Publishing. | |
| 2011 | Brendan Walsh (2011) 'Education in Ireland since the sixteenth century' In: Education Studies in Ireland: Key Disciplines. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan. | |
| 2009 | Brendan Walsh (2009) 'Radicalising the Classroom: Pearse and the Pedagogy of Progressivism' In: Higgins, R & Ui Chollatain, R(Eds.). The Life and After-Life of P.H.Pearse. Dublin : Irish Academic Press. | |
| 2022 | Brendan Walsh (2022) 'Aspects of Education Policy and the Work of Secondary Teachers in Ireland 1965-2010' In: Education Policy in Ireland Since 1922. UK : Palgrave. [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Brendan Walsh (2022) 'Introducation' In: Education Policy in Ireland Since 1922. UK : Palgrave. [DOI] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | McSharry, Majella; Walsh, Brendan (2015) 'Fostering Complicit Femininity Epoch, Education and the Young Female Body'. CRITICAL YOUTH STUDIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, 2 . [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Walsh, Brendan (2022) 'More sinn'd against than sinning? The intermediate system of schooling in Ireland 1878-1922'. History of Education, 51 (3). [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Brendan Walsh (2020) 'Irish schools, republicanism and World War One: remembrance and memory making'. Studia Hibernica, 46 (1):67-87. https://doi.org/10.3828/sh.2020.5 | |
| 2020 | Brendan Walsh (2020) 'The “Haunting Silence”: autobiographical accounts of secondary teaching in twentieth-century Ireland'. Paedagogica historica, :1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2020.1736103 | |
| 2017 | Walsh, Brendan (2017) 'I never heard the word methodology': personal accounts of teacher training in Ireland 1943-1980'. History of Education, 46 (3). [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Walsh, Brendan; Lalor, John (2015) 'New languages of possibility: early experiments in education as dissent'. History of Education, 44 (5). [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Brendan J. Walsh (2014) ''Frankly and robustly national': Patrick Pearse, the Gaelic League and the campaign for Irish at the National University of Ireland. In Studies: An Irish Quaterly Review'. 103 :135-146. | |
| 2012 | Brendan J. Walsh (2012) ''Turning Knowledge into Money: Ireland's Universities and Free-Markeet Alchemy''. vol.101 . | |
| 2007 | Brendan J. Walsh (2007) 'Asking the Right Questions: Teacher Education in the Republic of Ireland'. 33 :37-59. | |
| 2006 | Brendan J. Walsh (2006) 'The Challenge of Change: Secondary Schooling in Ireland 1922 - 1998'. 78 :95-104. | |
| 2006 | Brendan J. Walsh (2006) 'Schoolmaster of All-Ireland: A Response to Dr. David Limond'. 35 :32-44. | |
| 2023 | Walsh, Brendan (2023) 'Schooling, the Gaelic League, and the Irish language revival in Ireland 1831-1922'. Paedagogica historica, 59 (6). [DOI] | |
| 2024 | (2024) 'Charity Schools in Ireland: a history of decipt?'. History of Education, . [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Walsh, Brendan (2022) 'The Intermediate Education (Ireland) Bill 1878: a very imperfect attempt to aid Irish intermediate education?1'. Paedagogica historica, . [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Brendan Walsh (2021) 'Schooling, the Gaelic League and the Irish language revival in Ireland 1831-1922'. Paedagogica historica, . [DOI] | |
| 2019 | (2019) 'The Intermediate Education (Ireland) Bill 1878: “a very imperfect attempt to aid Irish intermediate education”?'. Paedagogica historica, . [DOI] |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Brendan Walsh (2021) '‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (II)' 110 (438) :201-212. | |
| 2012 | Brendan J. Walsh (2012) ''The poor nuns - blamed by everyone for everything'' :22-27. | |
| 2021 | Brendan Walsh (2021) '“‘Nobody Will Even Remember It’: An Oral History of the Contribution of the Teaching Religious in Ireland (I)' 110 (437) :92-101. [Link] |
Conference Contribution
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Education
Research Interests
Dr. Walsh lectures in the fields of History of Education, Educational Policy and Teaching Methodology and is Head of the School of Policy and Practice in Education, DCU. He has a particular research interest in teacher induction and worked as researcher on the National Teacher Induction Pilot Project 2005-2006. He is currently researching the history of teaching and teachers in Ireland within the context of personal/professional histories. In 2006 he established the Teaching Voice archive to begin collecting and collating the recollections of the teaching profession in Ireland. Between 2005-2014
Dr.Walsh was Director of Teaching Practice at Dublin City University overseeing the Graduate Diploma in Education, Science Education Degree and Physical Education and Biology Degree.
Dr Walsh discusses new book, Irish Education Studies key disciplines. Click here for the radio interview.
Dr Walsh discusses new book, Irish Education Studies key disciplines. Click here for the radio interview.
Teaching Interests
History of Education
Education policy
Neoliberalism and Higher Education
Education policy
Neoliberalism and Higher Education