Research Interests
My PhD research focuses on overseas volunteering as a form of social learning, where participants engage in a process of professional development in a different cultural and social context. The analysis is informed by Bourdieu's theorising on social reproduction and by postcolonial theory on the positionality of Western volunteers by integrating the concepts of reflexivity, privilege, social reproduction and habitus.
Publications
Books
Education that Matters: Teachers, critical pedagogy and development education
Mags Liddy and Marie Parker-Jenkins
(2012)
Education that Matters: Teachers, critical pedagogy and development education
Oxford :
Peter Lang
Book Chapters
Social justice discourse in development education in Ireland
Mags Liddy
(2015)
Social justice discourse in development education in Ireland
In Contesting and constructing international perspectives on Global Education;
Netherlands :
Sense
Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development
Mags Liddy
(2011)
Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development
In Teaching Global Perspectives; Introducing Student Teachers to Development Education;
Dublin :
Liffey Press
Interdisciplinary Literacy: the ability to critique disciplinary cultures and work effectively across disciplines
Roland Tormey, Mags Liddy, Deirdre Hogan.
(2009)
Interdisciplinary Literacy: the ability to critique disciplinary cultures and work effectively across disciplines
In The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy;
UK :
Green Books
Peer Reviewed Journals
Education about, for, as Development,
Mags Liddy
(2013)
Education about, for, as Development,
In Policy And Practice: A Development Education Review;
From marginality to the mainstream: Learning from Action Research for Sustainable Development
Mags Liddy
(2012)
From marginality to the mainstream: Learning from Action Research for Sustainable Development
In Irish Educational Studies;
Educating Engaged Citizens: Four Projects From Ireland
Mags Liddy and Joanne O'Flaherty
(2011)
Educating Engaged Citizens: Four Projects From Ireland
In Education And Training;
DOI: 10.1108/00400911111138442
Guest Editor for themed edition on Monitoring and Evaluation,
Mags Liddy
(2010)
Guest Editor for themed edition on Monitoring and Evaluation,
In Policy And Practice: A Development Education Review;
Conference Publications
SAI Postgraduate Conference
Mags Liddy
(2014)
SAI Postgraduate Conference
ATEE Winter Conference Proceedings
Mags Liddy
(2014)
ATEE Winter Conference Proceedings