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Dr Paddy Walsh

 

BA MA DipEd, PhD
Senior Lecturer

Room 02.005
6 College Green
School of Education
Queen’s University Belfast

Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 5933
Fax: +44 (0)28 9097 5066
Email: p.walsh@qub.ac.uk

Teaching:
Post Graduate Certificate of Education: English
Master of Education : Management


Research/Scholarship

Research/Scholarship Interests:
The politics and history of Curriculum formation; Education at the intersection of history, culture and politics; the English curriculum; the history of educational books; education and post-colonialism


Research/Scholarship Projects:

  • 2001: With my colleague Anne Sutherland I was awarded an open tender contract by the Northern Ireland Department of Education of £19,000 for research on ‘Reducing the Bureaucratic Burden on Schools.’
  • 2004: For the Learning Science, Making News Research Project , £10,000 from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC). This was awarded to myself and colleagues Dr Ruth Jarman, Dr William McClune and Dr Joy Alexander.


Publications:

  • Walsh P. (2012) ‘ ‘Paltry abridgments’: school texts and teaching history in nineteenth-century India and Ireland,’ Chapter in in Irish Classrooms and British Empire: Imperial Contexts in the Origins of Modern Education, (Eds) David Dickson, Justyna Pyz & Christopher Shepard,  Four Courts Press: Dublin, (ISBN: 978-1-84682-349-7), 53-61.
  • Walsh, P. (2011) ‘The Political Economy of Irish School Books,’ Chapter in The Oxford History of the Irish Book: Volume V\ The Irish Book in English 1891-2000, (Ed & Co-Ed) Clare Hutton, & Patrick Walsh, Oxford University Press, (ISBN 978-0-19-924911-4), 335-366.
  • Walsh, P. (2011) ‘Sources for Irish Book History, 1891-2000,’ Chapter in The Oxford History of the Irish Book: Volume V\ The Irish Book in English 1891-2000, (Ed & Co-Ed) Clare Hutton, & Patrick Walsh, Oxford University Press, (ISBN 978-0-19-924911-4), 629-643.
  • Campbell D,Walsh P, (February 2010) ‘ 'All have to live in me …': a study of the use of English alongside other African languages in a Kenyan school,’  Part 2, Journal of Intercultural Education, Vol.21, No.1, pages55-65.
  • Campbell D,Walsh P, (December 2009) ‘English in Kenyan Education,’  Part 1, Journal of Intercultural Education, Vol.20, No.6, pages579-586.
  • Alexander J, Walsh P, Jarman R,  McClune B (March 2008) ‘From rhetoric to reality: advancing literacy by cross-curricular means,’ The Curriculum Journal, Vol.19, No.1, pages 23-35 
  • Walsh, P. (September 2008) ‘Education and the 'universalist' idiom of empire: Irish National School Books in Ireland and Ontario,’ History of Education,  Volume 37, Issue 5,  pages 645 – 660.
  • Walsh, P. (November 2007) ‘English in the history of imperialism: teaching the empire how to read,’ Chapter in Rethinking English in Schools: A New and Constructive Stage (Eds) Viv Ellis, Carol Fox and Brian Street, Continuum Books, (ISBN 0826499228), 81-105.
  • Walsh, P. (January 2006) ‘Narrowed horizons and the impoverishment of educational discourse: Teaching, learning and performing under the new educational bureaucracies,’ Journal of Education Policy , 21(1) , 95-117.
  • Walsh, P. (2006) ‘Something important had changed: modernisation and Irish fiction since 1960’, Chapter in Irish Fiction Since the 1960s (Ed) Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Colin Smythe Ltd., (ISBN 10-: 0-86140-427-0) 27-49.
  • Walsh, P. & Sutherland, A. E. (2002) Reducing the Bureaucratic Burden on Schools, Department of Education, Northern Ireland, No 28, (ISBN 1 897592 12 4).
  • Walsh, P. & Gardner, J. (2000) ‘ICT and Worldmindedness,’ in Teaching Values and Citizenship Across the Curriculum, (Ed.) Bailey, R., Kogan Page, pp80-91.
  • Walsh, P. (1999) ‘Sean O Faolain’s Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories:Contexts for Revisionism,’ Chapter in Modern Irish Writers and the Wars, pp132-146, Devine, K. (ed.), Colin Smythe Ltd, Buckinghamshire.
  • Walsh, P. (Autumn/Winter 1999) ‘John Hewitt: Regionalism, Socialism and Partition,’ Irish University Review, pp 341-357.