Dr Dee McGillicuddy is a UCD Innovation Academy 2021 Fellow, recipient of UCD’s highest teaching award and has been nominated for a European teaching award for her Flourish Community initiative.
“For me, education is the foundation upon which we build our society. It’s the cornerstone of what we are doing. If we don’t have a strong education system with strong values to underpin what we’re doing, then we don’t understand who we are as a society, and we don’t understand who we are as human beings within the broader world as global citizens...”
“Nothing about us, without us” – giving space for the voice of any community to come forward. We discuss “the spaces in between”.
Growing up in a school of 12 pupils and 4 teachers, and always wanting to be a teacher, helping out as early as primary and post-primary school. How early inspirational teachers & mentors like Mr Keegan & Mr Murphy (he wasn’t afraid to let people take a risk) fed Dee’s fire for primary teaching – taking the scenic route through Arts and Geography, through an Hdip, Master’s and then a PhD.
“Is this making a difference?” is Dee’s touchstone… The cracks in the system are not very far below the surface – raising the national consciousness around the impacts of poverty, deprivation and difference. Even the physical size of children in disadvantaged vs more advantaged schools. Researching the Traveller community and how marginalised, watched and surveilled they are.
Concerns around the commodification & marketization of education – of education as a service, of the loss of relationship, active dynamic learning through meaningful interactions.
Through Dee’s work with the UCD Innovation Academy, creating and promoting the Flourish community of practice for wellbeing and creativity in education – which has won UCD teaching awards and been nominated for European level awards. “A tiny pebble dropped into the educational system – ripples down into people’s lives…”
Contact Dee
On Twitter (@deemcgillicuddy), on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deirdre-mcgillicuddy-4b9a91105/ or by email at deirdre.mcgillicuddy@ucd.ie
Links
Video Season 2.8 Episode 25 - Samantha Mason-Vazquez - mindset & career transformation coach
Audio Season 2.8 Episode 25 - Samantha Mason-Vazquez - mindset & career transformation coach
Video Season 2.8 Episode 24 - Tucker Colburn on independent education
Audio Season 2.8 Episode 24 - Tucker Colburn on independent education
Video Season 2.7 Episode 23 Jackie Carter - statistics, hybrid academia, empathy & excellence in teaching
Audio Season 2.7 Episode 23 Jackie Carter - statistics, hybrid academia, empathy & excellence in teaching
Video - Season 2.6 - Episode 22 - Paul Hine from ”Made by Mortals” on using theatre for positive social change
Audio - Season 2.6 - Episode 22 - Paul Hine from ”Made by Mortals” on using theatre for positive social change
Video Season 2 Episode 5 - Elena Antonacopoulou
Audio Season 2 Episode 5 - Elena Antonacopoulou
Audio Season 2 Episode 4 William Davis on MakerSpaces
Video Season 2 Episode 4 - William Davis on MakerSpaces
Video Season 2 Episode 3 - Joel Leonard on Maker Spaces
Audio Season 2 Episode 3 - Joel Leonard on MakerSpaces
Video Season 2 Episode 2 - Ann Foulds on sustainability
Audio Season 2 - Episode 2 - Ann Foulds on sustainability
Audio Season 2 - Episode 1 - Suzanne Buttimer from the Rockwell Music Academy
Video Season 2 - Episode 1 - Suzanne Buttimer from the Rockwell Music Academy
Video Episode 16 - Kathy O'Reilly on experiential learning and being an undercover sherpa
Audio Episode 16 - Kathy O'Reilly on experiential learning and being an undercover sherpa
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