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Faculties & Departments
Department of Education
Anthony Malone
B.A.(Hons.), M.A., H.Dip. Ed., M.Ed.(S.L.).
Education Department 
NUI Maynooth
Co Kildare
Ireland
Telephone: 01 708 3760
Facsimile: 01 708 4610
Email: anthony.malone@nuim.ie
Anthony joined the Department in October 2007. He was a teacher of English, History and CSPE for many years until he was seconded to the Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century project as Research and Development Officer. More recently he was employed as Deputy Principal in a post primary school.
Anthony is currently Course Leader for both the Postgraduate Diploma in Education and for the Masters in Education (School Leadership) programmes. He teaches across a range of programmes including the Postgraduate Diploma in Education, the Masters in Education, the Masters in Education (School Leadership), the Postgraduate Diploma (Educational Leadership) and the Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Management. On the PGDE he is responsible for teaching “The History and Structure of Irish Education” and the “Teaching, Learning and Assessment” modules. Anthony is tutor to students on the PGDE and the PGD (EL) and has supervised many theses across a range of disciplines. He acts academic advisor to the Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education.
Anthony is an active member of EERA (European Educational Research Association) and ESAI (Educational Studies Association of Ireland) and has presented at a number of national and international conferences. Anthony works actively with second level schools across Ireland presenting staff days and engaging in follow up sessions. He is currently very actively involved with Dr. Padráig Hogan, in leading the TL21 Transfer Initiative. Working in collaboration with five Education centres this project seeks to make available more widely in post primary learning environments the benefits of the Tl21 project. Anthony also acts as an education adviser to the “Developing a Learning Community of Teachers” project coordinated by Kilkenny Education Centre.
He has particular research interests in the following areas:
- Action Research
- Social Semiotic, Multimodal approaches to the teaching of English
- CPD and Building Learning Communities
- School Self Evaluation
- Active teaching and learning pedagogies
- School Leadership
- History of Education
- Interculturalism
Recent Presentations
Enhancing Practice and Policy in Continuing Professional Development, paper presented at ECER, University of Vienna, Austria (28th September 2009).
A Role for Irish education Centres in Leading Continuous Professional Development: Insights from the TL21 Transfer Initiative, paper presented at ECER, University of Vienna, Austria (28th September 2009).
Leading Learning and Teaching in Changing Times, paper presented at Tánaiste, Heritage Hotel, Portlaoise (25th March 2009).
Leading from the centre: the roles of education centre Directors in Leading CPD, paper presented at ESAI, Kilkenny (3rd April2009).
Aspiring School Leaders: An Irish Case Study, paper presented at ESAI, Kilkenny (3rd April2009).
Developing Professional Learning Communities within Second Level Irish Schools, paper presented at ECER, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (11th September 2008).
Developing Schools as Professional Learning Communities, paper presented at ESAI, Days Hotel, Galway (7th March 2008).
Leading Learning in the 21st Century, paper presented at Forbairt, Cavan Crystal Hotel, Cavan (24th January 2008).
The Role of Senior School Leadership in promoting a Teaching and Learning agenda at Whole School Level, paper presented at ESAI Annual Conference, Cavan Crystal Hotel, Cavan (March, 2007).
Continuing Professional Development in Contemporary Second Level Settings, paper presented at ACCS Annual Conference, Hodson Bay Hotel, Mullingar (May, 2006).
Appraising the Potential for Teaching: The Irish Context, paper presented at APT Conference, Offenburg, Germany (27th April 2006).
Teachers as Authors of their own Work: Insights from Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century, an Irish Professional Development Project 2003-2007, paper presented at European Educational Research Association (EERA) Annual Conference, University College Dublin (September 2005).
Assimilation and Integration: Multiculturalism in Second level Education, paper presented at ESAI Annual Conference, St. Mary’s University College, Belfast (April 2003). Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century: Devising Models for Continual professional Development, paper presented at ESAI Annual Conference, University College, Cork (March, 2005).
Selected Publications include:
Malone, A. (2009) “Developing Schools as Professional Learning Communities” US-China Education Review, January 2010.
Malone, A. (2009) “Light through the back door: capacity building learner and learning focused second level schools in Ireland” Journal of Education for Teaching, forthcoming 2010.
Hogan, P., Malone, A. et al. (2007) Learning Anew (Maynooth, Education Department).
Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Teaching English at Junior Certificate (2007) in Teaching English (Autumn, 2006).
Hogan, P., Malone, A. et al. (2005) Voices from Schools (Maynooth, Education Department).
Last updated November 2009.