Aoife Titley

    Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education

    SE310

    Biography

    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.

    Research Interests

    • Development education policy and practice
    • Intercultural education policy and practice
    • Diversifying teacher education
    • Activism in primary schools
    • International service learning (sending programmes) 
    • Human rights education

    Research Projects

      Project Role Funding Body / Program Description Start Date End Date Award (€)
    The real and perceived barriers to initial teacher education for young people from minoritized ethnic backgrounds Principal Investigator / 04-JAN-19 10-DEC-20
    The Froebel HOPE Teacher Education Partnership: Reflections on Teaching and Learning Principal Investigator / 04-JAN-19 03-JAN-20

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2020 '‘Africa as pedagogical playground: Problematising sending programmes for teachers’'
    Aoife Titley (2020) '‘Africa as pedagogical playground: Problematising sending programmes for teachers’' In: Challenging perceptions of Africa in schools: Critical approaches to global justice education. (Eds) O'Toole, B., Joseph, E., & Nyaluke, D. London: Routledge. [Details]

    Conference Contributions

      Year Publication
    2021 International Froebel Conference.
    Aoife Titley and Laura Thornton (2021) International Froebel Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Froebel teachers in Kolkata: Reflections on readiness to teach within, through and for social justice’, University of Edinburgh [Details]
    2021 International Society of Political Psychology Annual Conference (Education Panel).
    Aoife Titley (2021) International Society of Political Psychology Annual Conference (Education Panel). [Oral Presentation], ‘Diversifying Irish Curricula: Best Practices and Challenges of Inclusive Programmes’, Online event [Details]
    2021 International Froebel Conference.
    Aoife Titley (2021) International Froebel Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Putting transformative pedagogy and social justice on the agenda in Froebelian initial teacher education’, University of Edinburgh [Details]
    2021 Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference (Education Panel).
    Aoife Titley (2021) Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference (Education Panel). [Oral Presentation], ‘A snapshot of teaching: Using PhotoVoice as counter-storytelling to capture the narratives of minoritized ethnic young people interested in primary teaching’, Online event [Details]
    2020 'Diversity and Arts Education': In conversation with Kit de Waal and Leanne McDonagh.
    Aoife Titley (2020) 'Diversity and Arts Education': In conversation with Kit de Waal and Leanne McDonagh. [Chaired Session], National Arts in Education Portal Conference, Online event [Details]
    2019 Diversity in Teaching Symposium.
    Aoife Titley (2019) Diversity in Teaching Symposium. [Oral Presentation], Diversifying teaching through 'doubled' research practice: Reflections on recruitment, National University of Ireland, Galway [Details]
    2019 Strengthening the practice of Intercultural Education in Primary Schools.
    Aoife Titley (2019) Strengthening the practice of Intercultural Education in Primary Schools. [Oral Presentation], ‘Mapping the barriers to initial teacher education for young people from minoritized ethnic backgrounds’, Dublin City University [Details]
    2018 Educate Together National Conference.
    Aoife Titley (2018) Educate Together National Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Teach for Tomorrow – Education for sustainable development in the classroom’, Science Gallery, Trinity College [Details]
    2017 NEARI Action Research Seminar.
    Aoife Titley (2017) NEARI Action Research Seminar. [Oral Presentation], ‘Using Critical Participatory Action Research frameworks to empower minoritized young people in the research process’, Maynooth University [Details]
    2015 Annual Postgraduate Conference, DCU.
    Aoife Titley (2015) Annual Postgraduate Conference, DCU. [Oral Presentation], ‘Holding practitioners hostage? The challenges of reductive development education for initial teacher educators’, Dublin City University [Details]
    2015 Educational Studies Association Ireland Annual Conference.
    Aoife Titley (2015) Educational Studies Association Ireland Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Educational othering from the inside: The presence and absence of Irish Travellers in the Intercultural Education Strategy’, Maynooth [Details]
    2015 Wexford Education Centre Annual Research Conference.
    Aoife Titley (2015) Wexford Education Centre Annual Research Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Think Globally, Teach Locally: Transformative pedagogy in Initial Teacher Education’, Wexford Education Centre [Details]
    2015 SCOTENS Annual Conference.
    Aoife Titley (2015) SCOTENS Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Le Chéile – a voluntary summer club for children living in direct provision’, Limerick [Details]
    2015 Centre for Racial Equality, Scotland.
    Aoife Titley and Therese Hegarty (2015) Centre for Racial Equality, Scotland. [Oral Presentation], ‘Putting racism on the agenda in initial teacher education in Ireland: Utilising a pedagogy of discomfort to name privilege and support transformative pedagogy’, University of Edinburgh [Details]
    2014 Development Studies Association Ireland (DSAI) Conference.
    Aoife Titley and Rosalind Duke (2014) Development Studies Association Ireland (DSAI) Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘The significance of intercultural education as a starting point for student’s active engagement with global justice issues’, DSAI, Kimmage [Details]
    2014 Social. Personal and Health Education (SPHE) Network Conference.
    Aoife Titley (2014) Social. Personal and Health Education (SPHE) Network Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Towards an axiology of development education for eudaimonic well-being in Irish primary schools’, Dublin City University [Details]
    2013 ICMC Refugee Resettlement Conference.
    Aoife Titley (2013) ICMC Refugee Resettlement Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Longitudinal research with resettled refugees: A case study of the Carlow Rohingya refugee resettlement programme’, Brussels, Belgium [Details]
    2013 IASSEE Conference.
    Aoife Titley and Therese Hegarty (2013) IASSEE Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Development education and School Placement: Guidelines for Good Practice’, Dublin City University [Details]
    2012 Zambia Ireland Teacher Education Partnership (ZITEP) Conference.
    Aoife Titley and Mooka Mukela (2012) Zambia Ireland Teacher Education Partnership (ZITEP) Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Inclusive Education: Putting the learner at the heart of education’, Lusaka, Zambia [Details]
    2011 Development and Intercultural Education (DICE) Conference.
    Aoife Titley and Deirdre O'Rourke (2011) Development and Intercultural Education (DICE) Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Using social psychology to understand anti-Traveller bias in Ireland’, Dublin City University [Details]
    2010 English Language Teachers Association (ELSTA) Conference.
    Aoife Titley (2010) English Language Teachers Association (ELSTA) Conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Whole-school approaches to intercultural education’, Marino Institute of Education [Details]

    Guidelines for Practice

      Year Publication
    2018 Qatar 2022: Fair or Foul? A cross-curricular human rights resource for fifth and sixth class.
    Gavigan, C., Titley, A. Doohan, J., Galvin, P. & Diskin, M. (2018) Qatar 2022: Fair or Foul? A cross-curricular human rights resource for fifth and sixth class. Guidelines for Practice [Details]
    2015 Making Global Connections: Friendship Week Activity Pack for Primary Schools.
    Aoife Titley (2015) Making Global Connections: Friendship Week Activity Pack for Primary Schools. Guidelines for Practice [Details]
    2014 Good practice in development education in primary schools: Guidelines for school placement tutors.
    Aoife Titley with the DICE Network (2014) Good practice in development education in primary schools: Guidelines for school placement tutors. Guidelines for Practice [Details]
    2013 Intercultural events in Schools and Colleges.
    Therese Hegarty and Aoife Titley (2013) Intercultural events in Schools and Colleges. Guidelines for Practice [Details]

    Technical Publication

      Year Publication
    2017 Moral Education Curriculum of the United Arab Emirates.
    Aoife Titley - Contributing author and editor (2017) Moral Education Curriculum of the United Arab Emirates. Technical Publication [Details]

    Other Journals

      Year Publication
    2016 'Ireland: Development and Intercultural Education'
    Martin, M. Sleeman, S. & Titley, A. (2016) 'Ireland: Development and Intercultural Education' Global Education in Europe Revisited: Strategies and Structures, . [Details]

    Conference Publications

      Year Publication
    2015 Development education as an axiology of well-being in the primary school
    Aoife Titley (2015) Development education as an axiology of well-being in the primary school . In: Collins, B., Kavanagh, A, & Moynihan, S eds. Understanding well-being in changing times: The role of SPHE [Details]
    2014 The Future of SPHE: Problems and Possibilities
    O’Sullivan, C., Moynihan, S., Collins, B., Hayes, G. & Titley, A. (2014) The Future of SPHE: Problems and Possibilities The Future of SPHE: Problems and Possibilities [Details]

    Published Reports

      Year Publication
    2012 Longitudinal evaluations of the Carlow Rohingya Refugee Resettlement Programme (3 separate reports 2009-2012).
    Aoife Titley (2012) Longitudinal evaluations of the Carlow Rohingya Refugee Resettlement Programme (3 separate reports 2009-2012). Pobal, Dublin. [Details]
    2011 A review of the Cavan Traveller Primary Healthcare Project.
    Aoife Titley (2011) A review of the Cavan Traveller Primary Healthcare Project. Extern Ireland/ HSE, Cavan. [Details]
    2011 Debt and Development Coalition Ireland: A development education review.
    Aoife Titley (2011) Debt and Development Coalition Ireland: A development education review. Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, Dublin. [Details]
    2010 The Africa Centre: A development education review.
    Aoife Titley (2010) The Africa Centre: A development education review. The Africa Centre, Dublin. [Details]
    2009 The Yellow Flag Programme: Handbook for primary schools.
    Aoife Titley (2009) The Yellow Flag Programme: Handbook for primary schools. The Irish Traveller Movement, Dublin. [Details]
    2009 The Yellow Flag Programme: An intercultural education project for schools.
    Aoife Titley (2009) The Yellow Flag Programme: An intercultural education project for schools. The Irish Traveller Movement, Dublin. [Details]
    2008 The needs of migrants and their families in Tralee.
    Yau, N. and Titley, A. (2008) The needs of migrants and their families in Tralee. Partnership Trá Lí, Tralee. [Details]

    Professional Associations

      Association Function From / To
    DICE Network of Lecturers To collaborate with the DICE Lecturers in partner institutions including DCU Institute of Education, Marino Institute of Education and Mary Immaculate College Limerick. 15-MAR-11 /
    Sociological Association of Ireland Member 01-DEC-20 /
    Froebel HOPE Teacher Education Partnership Committee member and coordinator of research 01-SEP-18 /
    Castaheany Education Together NS, Ongar, Dublin 15 Member of the Board of Management 07-JUN-17 / 01-OCT-20
    Scoil Choilm CNS, Clonsilla, Dublin 15 Member of the Board of Management 01-SEP-17 /

    Committees

      Committee Function From / To
    MU Social Justice Committee Committee member 2018 /
    Irish Froebel Network Committee Member 2021 /
    MU Sanctuary Committee Committee member 2018 /
    DICE Steering Committee Secretary 2014 /
    Froebel Week Organising Committee Social Justice events coordinator 2017 /

    Outreach Activities

      Description

    'Iolar' Mid-term and summer activity camps organised for the children of asylum seekers in the Mosney Direct Provision Centre.

    Other Activities

      Description

    Partnership initiatives developed with: - Voluntary Service International - Kildare Traveller Action Project - GOAL - Trócaire - Amnesty International Ireland - Turn to Teaching - Kid's Own Publishing Partnership

    Teaching Interests


    Core teaching subjects:
    Intercultural education
    Development education
    Human rights education
    Education for sustainable development
    Educational research methods 

    DICE integrated teaching provided in:
    SPHE
    Sociology of Education 
    Visual Art
    Maths
    Placement Learning 
    Challenges in Pupil Care