Biography
Dr Orla McCormack is a Lecturer in Education in the School of Education and is the Programme Director for the Professional Master of Education. Her main teaching interests relate to Curriculum Policy and Reform, which she teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research interests focus on curriculum issues, pre-service education, particularly reflective practice. She has coordinated a number of internationally and nationally funded research projects, including Tempus and Erasmus+ projects. She jointly led a project funded by the ETB sector, exploring, for the first time, the characteric spirit of ETB schools/
Research Interests
Curriculum reform, initial teacher education with a particular focus on reflective practice and values in publicly managed schools.
Professional Activities
Education
- 2003 University of Limerick - Bachelor of Education
Publications
Conference Contribution
Education Studies Association of Ireland National Conference
Guilfoyle, L; Erduran, S; McCormack, O.
American Education Research Association
Gleeson, J. & McCormack, O
Conference Publication
European Conference of Educational Research, Dublin, Ireland.
Guilfoyle, L., Erduran, S., & McCormack, O.
New Perspectives in Science Education
McManus B., ODwyer, A., Childs, P., Broggy, J., McCormack, O., Dunne, P., Harley-Warnock, M., Kingston, S., Ryan, P.
Annual Conference of American Eduational Research Association
Gleeson J & McCormack, O
Other Publication
Report on research funded by the Gender Equality Unit
McCormack, O; Gleeson, J
Peer Reviewed Journal
Introducing education for sustainable development into Egyptian schools
Sewilam, H,McCormack, O,Mader, M,Raouf, MA
Environment Development And Sustainability
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-014-9597-7
Curriculum, culture, ideology and ownership: the case of the Exploring Masculinities programme
McCormack, O,Gleeson, J
Irish Educational Studies
DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2012.673909
Attitudes of parents of young men towards the inclusion of sexual orientation and homophobia on the Irish post-primary curriculum
McCormack, O; Gleeson, J
Gender And Education
DOI: 10.1080/09540250903474608