EPI•STEM PODCAST EPISODE 20

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 20, co- hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome Associate Professor Diarmaid Lane as the special guest. Diarmaid is a Lecturer in Technology Education in the School of Education and an EPI•STEM Affiliate at UL.Associate Professor Diarmaid Lane shares his personal story of his route into teacher education and research in Technology and STEM teacher education in the University of Limerick. He shows how his continuing reflexive learning ismaking a difference to the pedagogical approaches he espouses with his students and colleagues. Associate Professor Diarmad Lane shares his recent research andhis passion for researching new pedagogical approaches to teaching design thinking and spatial literacy to student teachers in Initial Teacher Education in non-linear ways and as an assemblage of representations.Associate Professor Diarmad Lane is currently writing research with Professor Geraldine Simmie exploringthis issue of reflexivity and how it might hold up a crucial mirror to the ethical and caring endeavour of emancipatory STEM teaching in higher education. Having won numerous prestigious awards for excellence in teaching at theUniversity of Limerick, regionally and nationally, it is clear here that Diarmaid continues to work with colleagues to constructively question and constantly critique his teaching, research and learning. The musical selection today is from Liam Broderick. Liam is a singer and guitarist from Abbeyfeale in Co. Limerick. Liam is a final year student in the BA in Irish Music in The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in UL. Liam performs a beautiful rendition of the traditional song Siúil a Rún, which means ‘Walk my love’ or ‘Come with me my darling’ with origins in the late 17th century.