Biography
Dr. Ciarán Ó Gallchóir is a Lecturer in Educational Leadership in the School of Education. He is the course director for the Masters of Education in School Leadership (MESL). The MESL programme has an innovative blended learning pedagogical design. The aim of the programme is for students to engage critically and analytically in a research dissertation exploring an area of school leadership. To date, he has published on aspects of School Placement, reflective practice, assessment in higher education and identity development. Currently, he is working on a project that focuses on the integration of a flipped classroom design to online support tutorials in order to complement pre-service teachers experiences of School Placement. He is the School of Education Liaison for the HEA PATH Initiative (http://hea.ie/tag/path/) and is a member of the Erasmus+ SUP4PCL project (https://erasmus.sup4pcl.org/).
Research Interests
His research interests are:
- Identity, Agency and Symbolic Interactionism
- Self-Verification and Emotion
- Initial Teacher Education
- Diversity within Initial Teacher Education
- School Placement
Publications
Conference Publication
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Ó Gallchóir, C. and Shinners-Kennedy, C.
European Educational Research Association (EERA:ECER)
Ó Gallchóir, C. and Wilkins, C.
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Marszalek, J.M., Nilsson, J.E., O'Flaherty, J., Ó Gallchóir, C. and Conway, P.F.
The Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
Ó Gallchóir, C.
Peer Reviewed Journal
Examining supervising field instructors' reporting and assessment of technology use by pre-service teachers on school placement
McGarr, O. and Ó Gallchóir, C.
Computers & Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103753
My Cooperating Teacher and I: How pre-service teachers story mentorship during School Placement
Ó Gallchóir, C., O'Flaherty, J. and Hinchion, C.
Journal Of Education For Teaching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2019.1639258
Identity Development: What I notice about myself as a teacher
Ó Gallchóir, C., O'Flaherty, J. and Hinchion, C.
European Journal Of Teacher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2017.1416087