AUDREY BRYAN
BA (Hons) (NUI), MSc (DU), MEd (Teachers College, Columbia University), MPhil, PhD (Columbia University)

Lecturer in Sociology

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Tel: +353 (01) 884 2208
email: Audrey.Bryan@spd.dcu.ie

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Modules Taught

BEd: ED225 Sociology of Education
BEd: ED323 Sociology of Education
BA: HD103 Social Contexts of Childhood
Grad Dip: GD403 Sociology of Education

Doctorate in Education (EdD) - Equality and Diversity Strand
Social Movements
Policy Analysis

Research Students

Supervisor (with Fionnuala Waldron) of PhD candidate, Anne Marie Kavanagh. Working title: Emerging models of intercultural education in Irish primary schools.

Supervisor of PhD candidate, Benjamin Mallon. Title: Teaching about Conflict in Schools: A Comparative Analysis of North-South Curricula.

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Research Interests

Racism and anti-racism; global citizenship education; social stratification; gender, sexuality and schooling.

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Membership of Professional Bodies/Professional activities

• National Council, Irish Development Education Association, Director.
• UBUNTU Network: Teacher Education for Sustainable Development, Steering Committee Member
• Policy and Practice: A Development Education Journal, Editorial Board Member.
• An Foras Feasa, Member.
• Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education, Steering Committee Member.

Selected Presentations

Bryan, A. (2012, May 9). The placebo effect: Development education and the discursive construction of the 'good' citizen in neo-liberal times. Invited paper. London International Development Centre, Institute of Education, London.

Bryan, A. (2012, April 15). To know is not enough, but be careful how you choose to act: The un/desirable citizen in post- sovereign times. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.

Bryan, A. (2012, February 23). Development Education in a Changing Local and Global Landscape: Global Citizenship Education and the New Development Advocacy. Invited Paper Presented at the Centre for Global Education Annual Conference, The Exchange, Dublin.

Bryan, A. (2012, February 9). How migration challenges notions of society, education and culture. Invited paper presented at the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) UNIQUE Thoughts Series. Goethe Institute, Dublin.

Bryan, A. (2012, January 23). Global Good-Guys, Standalone Saviours, and Obedient Activists: Ethical Triage and the New Development Advocacy. Invited Paper presented at the Development and Development Education Conference, Institute of Education, London.

Bryan, A. & Fitzgerald. G. (2011, October 18). A Critical Media Literacy Approach to Teaching and Learning about Local and Global Injustices. Invited presentation as part of Human Rights Month, Amnesty International Ireland, Fleet Street, Dublin 2.

Bryan, A. (2011, November 9). Band-Aid Pedagogy, Celebrity Humanitarianism and Cosmopolitan Provincialism: Dominant Representations of International Development and their Impact on Development Activism. Paper presented in the Centre for Global Health, TCD, as part of Trinity College International Development Research Week (Trinity International Development Initiative).

Bryan, A. (2011, November 21). Learning to Read the World? Implications of the Findings of a Research Study of Development Education in Post-Primary Schools for Initial Teacher Education. Paper presented to the UBUNTU Network: Teacher Education for Sustainable Development, Dublin City University, Dublin 9.

2011 Bryan, A. (July 2nd). Cinderella subjects and happily-ever-afters. Threats to global citizenship education in an era of performativity. Paper Presented at the Re-imagining Initial Teacher Education: Perspectives on Transformation Conference, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin. June 30-July 2.

2011 Bryan, A. (April 15). Doing difference differently? Teaching and learning about development and intercultural education trough a critical literacy Lens. Paper presented at the Irish Educational Studies Association Conference, Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin.

2011 Bryan, A. (February 28). "When we show you pictures of napalm victims, you'll shut your eyes.”: Documentary film as a tool for social transformation? Paper presented at the Ubuntu Network: Teacher Education for Sustainable Development, Dialogue Day 5, Media Stories and Messages: Critical Media Literacy Skills for Development Education. National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

2010 Bryan, A. (March 27).Troubling intercultural education policy and practice in an Irish context. Paper presented at the Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference. Dundalk, 25-27 March.

Bryan, A. (2010, March). “Migration Nation”: Intercultural education and anti-racism as symbolic violence in Celtic Tiger Ireland. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Chicago, IL.

Bryan, A. (2009, March). Studying globalised policies in practice: Vertical ethnography and the politics of comparative policy studies. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, South Carolina.

Bryan, A. (2008, March). “Every day you are helping the world's poorest people”: The articulation of International Development among donor agencies: A case study of the Irish Development and Development Education spaces.. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Bryan, A. (2008, March). Educating for civic responsibility, local and global citizenship, and development. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Bryan, A. (2007, April). The intersectionality of nationalism and multiculturalism in the formal and informal curriculum. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Bryan, A. (2007, August). Multicultural education as symbolic violence: The (Mis)representation of 'race,' racism and racialized minorities in multicultural educational curricula and practices in the Republic of Ireland. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY.

Bryan, A. (2007, July). The representation of national identity and multiculturalism in the Irish curriculum. Educating for democratic citizenship?. Paper presented at the Education for Democratic Citizenship Conference, Institute of Education and Birkbeck College, University of London.

Bryan, A. (2007, May). The representation of development, diversity and intercultural issues in the Irish curriculum: Challenges for mainstreaming a global ethical perspective in education. Paper presented at th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, Tartu, Estonia.

Bryan, A. (2005, April). Nationals, Supranationals and “Non-Nationals”: An ethnographic case study of the role of schooling in Ireland in contesting and/or reproducing racism through national, European and multicultural curricula. Invited paper presented to the Committee for Community and Diversity, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Bryan, A. (2002, March). Globalisation and marginalization in the Republic of Ireland: An analysis of representations of asylum seekers in the Irish media. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Orlando, FL.

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Book Chapters

Bryan, A. (2012, forthcoming). Using international development themed film to promote a pedagogy of discomfort. In M. Parker-Jenkins & M. Liddy (Eds.), Education that Matters: Critical Pedagogy and Development education at Local and Global levels. Peter Lang.

Bryan, A. (2011). Disrupting a Passion for Ignorance: Exploring development themes using a critical (media) literacy framework. In R. Tormey & T. Batteson (Eds.), Teaching Global Perspectives: Introducing Student Teachers to Development Education. Dublin: Liffey.

Bryan, A., & Bracken, M. (2011). They think the book is right and I am wrong’: Intercultural education and the positioning of ethnic minority students in the formal and informal curriculum. In M. Darmody, N. Tyrrell, & S. Song (Eds.), The Changing Faces of Ireland: Exploring Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children's Experiences. Sense.

Bryan, A. (2011). Band-Aid pedagogy, celebrity humanitarianism and cosmopolitan provincialism: a critical analysis of global citizenship education in the Republic of Ireland. In S. Malleck & S. Wankel (Eds.), Ethical Models and Applications of Globalization: Cultural, Socio-Political and Economic Perspectives. Hershey, PA.: IGI Global. Download

Bryan, A. (2010). Common-sense citizenship, citizenship tourism, and citizenship education in an era of gobalisation: The case of Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era. In A. Reid, J. Gill, & A. Sears (Eds.), Globalisation, the nation-state and the citizen: Dilemmas and directions for civics and citizenship education. New York, NY: Routledge.

Bryan, A. (2009). Migration Nation: Anti-racism and intercultural education as symbolic violence in Celtic Tiger Ireland. In F. Vavrus & L. Bartlett (Eds.), Critical approaches to comparative education: Vertical case studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.

Bryan, A. (2009). Pedagogies of privilege: Re-thinking interculturalism and anti-racism in education. In S. Drudy (Eds.), Education in Ireland: Challenge and change. Dublin: Gill & MacMillan.

Bryan, A. (2009). Postcolonial approaches to global citizenship education: Re-thinking theory, re-thinking pedagogy. In C. Farrington (Ed.), Teaching from Theory, Learning from Practice: Development Education for the Primary Sector. E-book retrievable from Yudo.

Bryan, A. (2007). The (mis)representation of Travellers in the civic, social and political education curriculum. In P. Downes & A.L. Gilligan (Eds.), Beyond educational disadvantage. Dublin: IPA.

Journals

Bryan, A (2011). Another cog in the anti-politics machine? The ‘de-clawing’ of development education'. Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review (12), Spring 2011, pp. 1-14. Retrievable from  www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue12-editorial

Bracken, M & Bryan, A (2010). The reflective practitioner model as a means of evaluating development education practice: Post-primary teachers' self-reflections on 'doing' development education. Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review, 10(2), 22-41. Retrievable from http://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue11-focus2

Bryan, A. (2010). Corporate multiculturalism, diversity management and positive interculturalism in Irish schools and society. Irish Educational Studies, 29(3), 253-269. doi:10.1080/03323315.2010.498566

Bryan, A. (2009). The intersectionality of nationalism and multiculturalism in the Irish curriculum: Teaching against racism? Race ethnicity and education, 12(3), 297-317. doi:10.1080/13613320903178261

Bryan, A. (2008). The co-articulation of national identity and interculturalism in the Irish curriculum: Educating for democratic citizenship? London Review of Education, 6(1), 47-58. doi:10.1080/14748460801889894

Bryan, A. (2008). Researching and searching for international development in the formal curriculum: Towards a post-colonial conceptual framework. Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 7(1), 68-79. Retrievable from www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue10.

Bryan, A., & Vavrus, F. (2005). The promise and peril of education: The teaching of in/tolerance in an era of globalisation. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 3(2), 237-255. doi:10.1080/14767720500167033

Bryan, A., & Mochizuki, Y. (2002). Beyond 'gender sensitization' and 'gender mainstreaming': Comparative and international education towards the democratic reconstruction of gender. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 5(1). Retrievable from www.tc.edu/cice/Issues/05.01/05_01.html.

Published Reports

Bryan, A. (with M. Bracken) (2011). Learning to Read the World?: Teaching and Learning about Global Citizenship and International Development in Post-primary Schools. Dublin: Identikit. Download

Fiedler, M., Bryan, A. & Bracken, M. (2011). Mapping the Past, Charting the Future: A Review and Analysis of the Irish Government’s Engagement with the Development Education Sector and Development Education Research in Ireland.  Limerick: Irish Aid. Download

Bryan, A., Clarke, M., Drudy., S. (2009). Social justice education in initial teacher education: A cross-border perspective (A Report for the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS)). Retrievable from Scotens.

Mayock, P., Bryan, A., Carr, N., & Kitching, K. (2009). Supporting LGBT lives in Ireland: A study of the mental health and well-being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people (Report commissioned by the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) and BeLonG To Youth Service, and funded by the Health Service Executive's National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP).). Retrievable from GLEN.

Electronic Publications

Bryan, A. (2009). Reflections on teaching development education in initial and in-career teacher education: One institution's, and one teacher educator's experience. In M. Liddy & J. O'Flaherty (Eds.), Action research and other projects to integrate development education into initial teacher education 2006-2008. E-book retrievable from Ubuntu Network.

Bryan, A, Clarke, M. & Drudy, S (2009). A study of student teachers' perspectives on social justice and development education. In M. Liddy & J. O'Flaherty (Eds.), Action research and other projects to integrate development education into initial teacher education 2006-2008. E-book retrievable from Ubuntu Network.

Last Updated: Wednesday May 16 2012