Professor Ciaran Sugrue BA MA MEd HDip Education PhD
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Biography:
| Ciaran Sugrue is Professor of Education, School of Education, UCD. He has worked in the Irish Education system in a variety of capacities including: teacher, schools inspector, teacher educator and researcher. Prior to his appointment in UCD, he worked at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, where he also had a leadership role within the Centre for Commonwealth Education, reflecting a long term commitment to, and involvement with, educational reform in the global south, sub-Saharan Africa in particular, working with agencies such as Ireland Aid, UNESCO and World Bank. This work has extended also to Egypt and Asia. He was General Editor of Irish Educational Studies (1998-2008), serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, is a past president of the International Study Association of Teachers and teaching, and was involved in creating the Irish Primary Principals¿ Network (IPPN). Currently, he is extern examiner for the Doctoral Programme at the University of Bath, UK, and for the Masters in Leadership at University of Limerick. He is currently Head of School. His research interests are wide-ranging and include: School Leadership and Educational Change, Continuing Professional Development, Teacher Educational Reform in developed and developing countries, and Educational Policy. He has expertise in Qualitative Research, particularly Life History. |
Research Interests
| My research interests are wide-ranging and include: Leadership Learning for School Improvement, Continuing Professional Development of teachers, teachers¿ lives and work, Organisational Change, educational reform in developing countries with particular emphasis on capacity building, qualitative research methods, particularly Life History, while an extension of this interest is the necessity to tailor research methods to cultural contexts, to address the ethical, practical and theoretical challenges that emerge. |
Books
| Sugrue,Ciaran; (1997) Complexities of Teaching: Child-Centred Perspectives. London: Routledge. [Details] |
Book Chapters
Ciaran Sugrue; (2011) 'Leadership: Professionally Responsible Rule Bending and Breaking?' In: Professional Responsibility: New Horizons of Praxis. London & New York: Routledge.  [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue & Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke; (2011) 'Professional Responsibility: New Horizons of Praxis' In: Professional Responsibility: New Horizons of Praxis. London & New York: Routledge. [Details] |
| Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke & Ciaran Sugrue; (2011) 'Learning from conceptions of Professional Responsibility and Graduate experiences in becoming novice practitioners' In: Anne McKee, & Michael Eraut, M (eds). Professional Learning over the Lifespan: Innovation and Change. Dordrecht: Springer. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue; (2011) 'Between the Twin Towers of Autonomy and Accountability: Performative Acountability or Transformative Leadersship?' In: Helen O' Sullivan & John West-Burnham (eds). Leadership and Management In Schools: Irish Perspectives. California: Sage. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue & Alicia Fentiman; (2011) 'Teachers' Lives and Work In Sub-Saharan Africa: Outsider Perspectives' In: Christopher Day (eds). International Handbook of School and Teacher Development. London & New York: Routledge. [Details] |
| Sugrue, Ciaran; (2011) 'Autonomy and Accountability' In: H. O' Sullivan & J. West-Burnham (eds). Leading And Manging Schools. London & Thousand Oaks: Sage. [Details] | |||||||||
| Dyrdal Solbrekke, T., and Sugrue, C.; (2011) 'Learning from Conceptions of Professional Responsibility and Graduates Experiences in Becoming Novice Practitioners' In: Learning Trajectories, Innovation and Identity for Professional Development. Dordrecht: Springer. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran; (2011) 'Professional Responsibility: New Horizons of Praxis' In: C. Sugrue & T. Dyrdal Solbrekke (eds). Professional Responsibility: New Horizons of Praxis. London & New York: Routledge. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran; (2008) 'The Plate Tectonics of Educational Change In Ireland: Consequences fro research, quality, policy and practixce?' In: Ciaran Sugrue (eds). The Future of Educational Change: International Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran; (2006) 'Three Decades of College Life, 1973-99: the old order changeth?' In: James Kelly (eds). St. Patrick's College Drumcondra: A History. Dublin: The Four Courts Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran; (2006) 'Structure and agency in the construction of creative teaching and learning: a view from the margins' In: Bob Jeffrey (eds). Creative Learning Practices: European Experiences. London: The Tufnell Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran; (2005) 'Revisiting Student Teachers¿ Lay Theories and Cultural Arcetypes of Teaching' In: D. Beijaard, P. Meijer, G. Morine-Dershimer & H. Tillema (eds). Teacher Professional Development in Changing Conditions. Dordrecht: Springer. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran; (2004) 'Rhetorics and realities of CPD across Europe: from cacophony towards coherence?' In: Day, Christopher & Sachs, Judith (eds). International Handbook on the Continuing Professional Development of Teachers (pp. 67-93). Maidenhead: Open University Press. Maidenhead: Open University Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran ; (2004) 'Signposts and Silences: Situating the Local within the Global' In: Sugrue, Ciaran (eds). Curriculum and Ideology: Irish Experiences, International Perspectives. Dublin: The Liffey Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran ; (2004) 'Whose Curriculum Is It Anyway? Power, Politics and Possibilities in the Construction of the Revised Primary Curriculum' In: Sugrue, Ciaran (eds). Curriculum and Ideology: Irish Experiences, International Perspectives. Dublin: The Liffey Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran ; (2004) 'Introduction' In: Sugrue, Ciaran (eds). Curriculum and Ideology: Irish Experiences, International Perspectives. Dublin: The Liffey Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran ; (2003) 'Teacher Education in Ireland' In: B. Moon, Vlasceanu, L., and Conley Barrows, L (eds). Institutional Approahes to Teacher Education within Higher Education in Euope: Current Models and New Developments. Bucharest:: UNESCO CEPES. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran ; (2002) 'Sugrue, C. (2002). Principals' Professional Development through a support group: Social Collegiality or Professional Collaboration?' In: Biott, C., & Raunch, C (eds). Challenges and Support for School Leaders. Innsbruck:: Studienverlag. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran ; (1997) 'Restructuring Initial Primary Teacher Education in Ireland' In: Hudson, A. & Lambert, D (eds). Exploring Futures in Initial Teacher Education (pp. 247-266). London: Institute of Education. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran ; (1996) 'Student Teachers' Lay Theories of Teaching: Implications for Professional Development' In: Goodson, I. F. & Hargreaves, A (eds). Teachers' Professional Lives. London: The Falmer Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| Dyrdal Solbrekke, Tone, & Sugrue, Ciaran ; (2011) 'Professional Responsibility: Back to the Future' In: Sugrue, Ciaran & Dyrdal Solbrekke, Tone (eds). Professional Responsibility: New Horizons of Praxis. London & New York: Routledge. [Details] | |||||||||
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Edited Books
| Ciaran Sugrue & Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke (Ed.). (2011) Professional Responsibility: New Horizons of Praxis. London & New York: Routledge. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue (Ed.). (2008) The Future of Educational Change. London & New York: Routledge. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue (Ed.). (2005) Passionate Principalship: Learning for the Life Histories of School Leaders. London: Routledge. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue (Ed.). (2004) Curriculm & Ideology: Irish Experiences, International Perspectives. Dublin: The Liffey Press. [Details] |
| Sugrue, Ciaran & Day, Christopher (Ed.). (2002) Developing Teachers and Teaching Practice International Research Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge/ Falmer. [Details] |
| Sugrue, Ciaran (Ed.). (1998) Teaching, Curriculum and Educational Research. Dublin: St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, Ciaran (Ed.). (1998) Restructuring Initial Teacher Education: A focus on Preservice and Induction at Primary Level. Dublin: St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. [Details] | |||||||||
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Peer Reviewed Journals
| Jarmo Houtsonen, Magdalena Czaplicka, Sverker Lindblad, Peter Sohlberg, Ciaran Sugrue; (2010) 'Welfare State Restructuring in Education and its National Refractions: Finnish, Irish and Swedish Teachers¿ Perceptions of Current Changes'. Current Sociology, 58 (4):597-622. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue; (2010) 'Plowden: Progressive Education- A Four Decade Odyssey'. Curriculum Inquiry, 40 (1):105-124. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue; (2009) 'Professionalism and Performativity: Irish Primary Principals Experience of Building Leadership Capacity'. European Journal of Educational Research, 8 (3):372-386. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue; (2009) 'From Heroes and Heroines to Hermaphrodites: Emancipation or Emasculation of School Leaders and Leadership?'. School Leadership and Management, 29 (4):353-371. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue; (2009) 'Back to the Future: perspectives on current realities and future quality of educational research through the prism of Irish Educational Studies'. Irish Educational Studies, 28 (1):7-25. [Details] |
| Ciaran Sugrue; (2008) 'Professional Responsibility in higher education: a response from the ¿swamp¿. In No.2, pp. 131-142'. Utbildning & Demokrati, 2 :131-142. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, C. ; (2003) 'Irish Primary Principals' Professional Learning: Problems and Possibilities'. 50 :8-39. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, C. & Furlong, C; (2002) 'The Cosmologies of Irish Primary Princiapal's Identities: Between the Modern and Postmodern'. 5 (3):189-210. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, C. ; (2002) 'Irish Teachers' Experience of Professional Learning: Implications for Policy and Practice'. 28 (2):311-338. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, C. ; (1999) 'Primary Principals' Perspectives on Whole-School Evaluation'. 30 . [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, C; (1997) 'Student Teachers' Lay Theories and Identities: Implications for Professional Development'. 20 :213-226. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, C. & Uí Thuama, C. ; (1997) 'Lifelong Learning for Teachers in Ireland: Policy, Provision and Vision'. 20 :213-226. [Details] | |||||||||
| Sugrue, C. ; (1990) 'Child-Centred Education in Ireland Since 1971'. 41 :75-94. [Details] | |||||||||
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Other Journals
| Sugrue, C.; (2011) 'Ireland's Educational Performance: What's the Problem?' Public Affairs Ireland 76 (April/May) :12-13. [Details] |
| Sugrue, C. ; (2011) 'Re-dressing Ireland's educational problem: Is 'Better Literacy and Numeracy for Children and Young Adults' the answer?' Public Affairs Ireland 77 (June) :15-17. [Details] |
Current Postgraduate Students
| Enda Hickey, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor |
| John O Connor, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor |
Modules Taught
| 201100 EDUC40680 Education: Development Education |
| 201100 EDUC41650 Education: Spaces for Learning |
| 201100 EDUC41620 Education: Contemporary Issues |
| 201100 EDUC40670 Education: Prof.Dev-Ed.Dev 1 |
| 201100 EDUC41630 Education: School Leadership & Disadvant |