Audrey Halpin

Contact Details


Lecturer/Assistant Professor
DCU St. Patrick's Campus, Office M313
Dublin City University
Drumcondra, D.9
M:0872815325

E:audrey.halpin@dcu.ie

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

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Audrey Halpin is an educator who has been theorising and researching her practice as an inclusive teacher since 1986. She has worked for some time at all levels of education within schools, colleges, universities and alternative schools. She has been employed in a number of different roles in Ireland, Canada, Dubai and Kuwait with the common threads being those of enquiry-led inclusive response to diversity, high expectations for all learners and belongingness in education. Her current focus is on Teacher Education for Education/Teaching that is inclusive of all learners who arrive at school.


Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2019 Audrey Halpin (2019) ATEE Annual Conference Using Problem-Based-Learning in Teacher Education for Inclusive Education that is Equitable, Diverse and Global Bath, England, 14/08/2019-16/08/2019.
2019 Audrey Halpin (2019) Teacher Education Policy Europe 2019: QUALITY TEACHERS AND QUALITY TEACHER EDUCATION: RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRACTICE Preparing Teachers to be Teachers of All Pupils from the Start of Their Initial Teacher Education.:Paper presenting findings from Initial Teacher Education Programme Krakow, Poland, .
2018 Audrey Halpin; Paul King (2018) BERA Conference, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2018 An Investigation into the experiences and views of Guidance Counsellors (in Post Primary Schools throughout Ireland) regarding the provision of guidance counselling that is inclusive of learners considered to have Special Educational Needs Newcastle Upon Tyne, .
2017 Audrey Halpin, Ricky Mc Mahon, Laura Welch, Alyson Crowley (2017) ESAI Conference 2017 Inclusive Education: Using and Creating evidence while effectively working the spaces between policy and practice Cork, 20/04/2017-22/04/2017.
2017 Audrey Halpin (2017) Teacher Education Policy in Europe Conference 2017 Preparing Teachers of All Children using Education For All and Inclusive Education Ideologies Limerick, 18/05/2017-20/05/2017.
2015 Audrey Halpin; Kieran Houlihan (2015) ESAI Conference, 2015 Research, Policy and Practice Nexus: Policy Development in Access to Higher Education for People with Disabilities Maynooth, .
2015 Audrey Halpin; Joanne Jackson; Rebecca Waugh; Samuel Ross; Lorraine Harbison (2015) ESAI Conference, 2015 Research as Resilience in the transition from Initial Teacher Education to Working in School Cultures: Examples from an existing programme. Church of Ireland College of Education Maynooth, 09/04/2015-11/04/2015.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2014 Audrey Halpin (2014) 'Leading Inclusion' In: Education Matters: Readings in Pastoral Care for School Chaplains, Guidance Counsellors and Teachers. Dublin : Veritas.

Invited papers

Year Publication
2016 Audrey Halpin (2016) One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: From ground-breaking legislation for inclusion to reversion from inclusivity in primary education. INVP [Link]
2014 Audrey Halpin (2014) Key Considerations For A School Wishing To Be Genuinely Inclusive. INVP [Link]
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Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
Teaching Council of Ireland Registered Teacher 03/09/2007 -
Irish Federation of University Teachers Member 01/09/2012 -

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
01/09/1986 Department of Education, Ireland Diploma in Education In-Service Teaching Diploma
03/10/1983 Carysfort College of Education/NUI B.Ed. Gaeilge, Music and Education
04/09/1990 Ministry of Education, Ontario Ontario Teaching Certificate General Subjects, Inclusive Education, Special Education
01/09/1988 University of Toronto: Ontario Insitute for Studies in Education M.Ed Inclusive Education and Special Education
01/09/2005 Trinity College, University of Dublin M.Sc. Guidance Counselling

Languages

Language Reading Writing Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Irish Fluent Fluent Fluent

Other Activities

Description
Audrey engages with individuals, families, teachers, principals and organisations (on request) to discuss their inclusivity successes/concerns and to advise (if requested) on inclusive responses to diversity in education/workplace.

Enterprise Engagement

Year Engagement Type Client Description
21/2 Continuous Professional Development/Training Various Professional Development engagement talks/workshops with schools/organisations on inclusivity in education and/or the workplace. Consultation for schools/educators/families/individuals on inclusivity concerns in education.

Media

Title Year Type Authors
The Annual Crisis: School Places for Children with Special Needs 2022 Other Audrey Halpin
Fairer Approach Needed to help Exam Students with Special Needs 2016 Newspaper article (online) Audrey Halpin

Research Interests

Inclusivity in Education, Learner Diversity, Inclusive Education Policy, Teacher Education Policy, Policy and Policy Discourses, Education for All, Inclusive and Responsive Pedagogies, Disability Studies, Teacher Identity, Teacher Educator Identity, Diversity in Teaching and Teacher Education, Queer Experience in Teaching, Queer experience in Teacher Education, Problem Based Learning, Universal Design, Universal Design for Learning Universal Design for Assessment, Authentic Assessment, Relationships and Sexuality Education, Learner Identity, Reflexiveness for Development in Teacher Education, Leadership for Inclusivity, Inclusive Guidance Counselling, Guidance Counselling  for All.

Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date
National Survey of Guidance Counsellors Co-Lead Pilot Investigation into Guidance Counsellors' perceptions of students with special educational needs and their successes/concerns regarding provision of inclusive guidance services 01/09/2015 30/09/2016
Teachers' Research Exchange Module Enhancement Framework DCU PI 28/08/2019 24/01/2020
WTUN Exchange DCU PI 31/05/2019 29/11/2019

Teaching Interests

Inclusive Education, Inclusive Teaching, Education for All

Inclusive Guidance Counselling, Education,

Teaching and Guidance Counselling for All learners,

Inclusivity as respectful response to diversity in context

Strengths Based Approaches, Person/Learner Centredness, Student Voice, 

Education Policy:  history, analysis and implications, 

Universal Design: UD for Learning and UD for Assessment, Authentic Assessment,

Personal and Social Development, Relationships and Sexuality Education

Collaborative partnerships

Professional Problem Based Learning and Project/Problem Based Learning in schools

Reflective Practice, Reflexive Professional Growth, Reflection in Context,

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2021-22 Identities, Holistic Profiling, Responses SI721
2021-22 Inclusive Education SI208
2021-22 Human Diversity: Being a Teacher of All Students HD594
2021-22 Inclusive Education: Education that is inclusive SI714
2023 SI208
2023 HD594
2023 SI728
2023 HD530
2021 SI704
2021 SI706
2020-2021 Learner Identity: Educational Implications SI704
2022 SI714
2022-23 SPHE/RSE Teacher Identity HD530
2023 SI701
2022 SI721
2021 SI715
2023 SI717
2023 SI716
2021 SI705
2020-21 Holistic Profiling and Assessment SI715
2022-23 Inclusive Education: Education that is Inclusive SI728