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Faculties & Departments
Department of Education
Dr Rose Malone
Education Department 
NUI Maynooth
Co Kildare
Ireland
Telephone: 01 708 3351
Facsimile: 01 708 4610
Email: rose.m.malone@nuim.ie
Dr Rose Malone is a lecturer in the Education Departemnt and course leader for the Education Doctorate (EdD) jointly with Dr Anne B Ryan, Department of Adult and Community Education. Rose has been a member of the Education Department in NUI, Maynooth since November 1999. Prior to that she co-ordinated curriculum projects (on Poverty and Education (1997-99) and on Integrated Science(1982-89)) in the CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit and was Education/Research Officer for the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (1993-97). She has lectured in the Education Departments of NUI Galway (1989-91) and the National College of Art and Design (1991-93) and has been a classroom teacher with CDVEC (1971-1982).
She contributes to the following courses:
- PGDE (modules on Teacher as Critically Reflective Practitioner (1), Curriculum Studies)
- PGDEL (contribution to modules The Person: Human and Professional; Research Methodologies)
- Masters’ in Education (shared module with Dr. Anne Lodge Equality and Diversity in Education, thesis supervision)
- Masters’ in Education (School Leadership) (shared module with Dr. Anne Lodge Equality and Diversity in Education, thesis supervision)
- Education Doctorate (contribution to modules Thinking-theory and practice: Critical Theories of Education and Adult Education; Research Modalities: Advanced Research Methods (using mixed methods, ethnography); Literature review workshops, writing workshops, thesis supervision)
- PhD (summer and autumn schools, literature review workshops, writing workshops, thesis supervision)
Current research interests include:
- Prevention of early school-leaving, with particular reference to the role of curriculum innovation
- Gender equality in education
- Assessment modes and techniques to support learning
- Active learning methods to support education for social justice
- Application of the work of Pierre Bourdieu in second-level education
- Education and migration
- Teaching and learning in science and mathematics
Current research
- Evaluation of GIMMS (Gender, Innovation and Mentoring in Mathematics and Science Education) based in University of Limerick
- Teachers’ informal learning networks with North Tipperary Vocational Education Committee
- Care and Education with Dr Anne Lodge and colleagues in St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra
Membership of Academic and Advisory bodies
Member of Board of Directors of Leargas: the Exchange Agency
External assessor for Dormant Accounts Board, 2004
Selected bibliography
Malone, Rose (forthcoming) : “Building social capital, Reconstructing habitus: Addressing the problem of early school leaving in Ireland” in Social Capital, Professionalism and Diversity: New Relations in Urban Schools. Editor(s): Julie Allan, Jenny Ozga and Geri Smyth. Amsterdam: Sense.
Malone, Rose and McCoy, Selina (2004) The Role of Schools in Preventing Early School-leaving. Report to Department of Education and Science.
Malone, Rose (2002) Disadvantage, Learning and Teachers: Dilemmas for Teacher Education. Submission to the Forum on Educational Disadvantage.
Malone, Rose (2002) Report on Classics Education in Irish Post-Primary Schools: Situation, Challenges, Prospects. Report prepared for the Classical Association of Ireland.
Jeffers, Gerard and Malone, Rose (2003) Simulations and Realities: Teaching Social Justice in Initial Teacher Education. (in press)
Granville, Gary and Malone, Rose (2001). Poverty Awareness in the Classroom: A Call to Action. CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit and Combat Poverty Agency.
Malone, Rose (2000) “Human Rights Education and the Promotion of Equality and Tolerance: response to Brice Dickson” in Towards an Integrated Approach to Human Rights Education. Edited by Karen O’Shea, Barbara Gill and Aidan Clifford. CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit and Trocaire.
Malone Rose (1999) “Poverty, the Curriculum and the Classroom”, Poverty Today, 42, December 1998/January1999.
Malone R. (1989) (ed.) the Junior Certificate: Issues of Implementation. Dublin: CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit.
Malone Rose and Hanna O’Brien (1989) Female Choices in VPT Programmes: Case Studies from School Review. Dublin: CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit.
Malone Rose (1988) “Equality of Educational Opportunity: the Relevance of Curriculum”. TUI Congress Journal.
Malone Rose (1987) “ISCIP: an Approach to Integrated Science”, Compass, 16(2).
Malone Rose (1986) “Continuous Assessment”, in T. Crooks (ed.) School-Based Assessment. Dublin: CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit.
Malone, Rose ‘Tumbling Out’ or ‘Hanging In?’ : the Implications of Curriculum reform for the Prevention of Early School Leaving. (2006) (PhD, UCD)
She has also written and edited secondary school science text-books and was editor of Compass, the journal of the Irish Association for Curriculum Development from 1988-92.