Aoife Titley

Aoife Titley is the lecturer in development and intercultural education (DICE) in the Froebel Department. Before becoming a teacher educator, she worked as an education researcher and a post-primary teacher. Her research in the community and voluntary sector includes projects for organisations such as the Irish Traveller Movement, Africa Centre, Debt and Development Coalition, Poetry Ireland, Carlow County Development Partnership and Extern Ireland/ HSE. She has also been involved in the design and development of numerous publications for primary schools, including for Amnesty International Ireland, and the Moral Education Curriculum of the United Arab Emirates (Pearson).

Prior to joining the Froebel Department as the DICE Lecturer, Aoife was also the Programme Manager of the DICE Project for three years, of which the then Froebel College of Education was a partner institution. The DICE Project is a national strategic programme funded by Irish Aid which supports the embedding of development education and intercultural education into initial teacher education in Ireland. Further information is available at www.diceproject.ie.

Aoife is also a doctoral candidate in Dublin City University (DCU), specialising in teacher education. The empirical research for her dissertation explores the real and perceived barriers to initial teacher education for young people from minoritized ethnic backgrounds within a critical participatory action research framework. Her other research interests include international service learning (sending programmes) and social activism in primary schools.