Inside Education On 103.2 Dublin City Fm

My guest on this podcast is Dr. Conall Ó Breacháin from the School of Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education in Dublin City University. Among the topics we discuss in this episode are:  Differences between 1999 language curricula and the 2016 language curriculum in Ireland (e.g. focus on plurilingualism and the transfer of skills is a noticeable difference in emphasis in the redeveloped curriculum, broad learning outcomes versus learning objectives in 1999). He refers to the work of Jim Cummins who featured on Inside Education in Episode 15 and Episode 16. How learning one language can help the learning of another. Was there a need to change the 1999 curriculum when “it was working fine”? Finding the right degree of innovation in curriculum change. The importance of providing teachers with a timeline for proposed change and a plan for how teachers will be supported around the change. Why teachers typically don’t ask for curriculum change. The most underrated ideas in the redeveloped language curric