Alan Gorman
Dr
Dr Alan Gorman, BEd, MEd, PhD, is Deputy Chair of the Doctor of Education (EdD) programme at DCU. He is also the Area of Professional Focus Leader for Professional Learning and Teacher Education on the EdD. He received the DCU President’s Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in 2022. His research and publications focus on critical policy analysis, professional learning, and teacher education. He has supervised doctoral students to completion in these areas. He is currently undertaking a tri-nation research study on system leadership with Prof Alma Harris (Swansea University), Prof Michelle Jones (Cardiff Metropolitan University) and Dr Fiona King (DCU). He has also completed research on early career principal identity across the island of Ireland and co-led an innovative teacher education project on AI-enabled virtual reality environments (featured on RTÉ).
He is a Research Fellow at the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre (ABC). He has presented to the Department of Education and the Oireachtas Committee on policy development and enactment. He also conducted a policy audit, which was published in the Report on the Review of the 2013 Action Plan on Bullying and the Development of Cineáltas: Action Plan on Bullying (Department of Education, 2023, pp. 36-39).
Peer Reviewed Journal
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| 2024 | Brennan,A.; Logan, A.; Pennycook, C.; Gorman, A.; Scanlon, D. (2024) 'Collaborative self-study in higher education: lessons from redesigning school placement during the pandemic'. Journal of Education for Teaching, . [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Feijóo, S; Kuldas, S; Sargioti, A; Kinahan, A; Heaney, D.; Gorman, A.; O'Higgins Norman, J. (2024) 'A test of Dublin Anti-bullying Self-Efficacy Scale for teachers (DABSE-T)'. International Journal of Bullying Prevention, . [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Doyle, A.; Conroy Johnson, M.; Scanlon, D.; Logan, A.; Silke, A.; Brennan, A.; Furlong, A.; O’Grady, S (2024) 'Reconceptualising school placement assessment in initial teacher education: a figurational perspective'. European Journal of Teacher Education, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2024.2345904 | |
| 2023 | Gorman, A.; Furlong, C. (2023) 'Partnership or prescription: a critical discourse analysis of HEI-school partnership policy in the Republic of Ireland'. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 51 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Gorman, A.; Hall, K. (2023) 'Exploring the impact of an online learning community to support student teachers on school placement'. European Journal of Teacher Education, . [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Brennan, A.; Gorman, A. (2023) 'Leading transformative professional learning for inclusion across the teacher education continuum: lessons from online and on-site learning communities'. Professional Development in Education, 49 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Moynihan, D; Gorman, A; Leahy, M; Scully, D (2023) 'All the World’s a Stage: Examining the Actors That Influence the Development of Primary Pre-Service Teacher Digital Competence in the Republic of Ireland'. Education Sciences, 13 (10). [Link] https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13101045 | |
| 2023 | Barron, B.; Gorman, A.; Looney, A. (2023) 'Teacher professionalism in policy texts in the Republic of Ireland; a critical discourse analysis'. Irish Educational Studies, . [Link] [DOI] |
Online Article
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| 2024 | Gorman, A. (2024) A guide to understanding political policy language in the. ELEA [Link] |
Book Chapter
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| 2023 | King, F; Brennan, A; Gorman, A (2023) 'Teacher professional learning in the Republic of Ireland: Policy development to policy enactment' In: Innovation in Teacher Professional Learning in Europe. London : Routledge. [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Lehane, P.; Gorman, A. (2024) 'Assessment and Learning- Summative Approaches' In: Learning to Teach in the Primary School. London : Routledge. |