Patricia Nunan is the Programme Director of the Professional Master of Education (PME) in Post Primary Education. Since joining Hibernia College in 2020, Patricia has worked as the School Placement Lead on the PME Post Primary programme. Her background is as a Post Primary teacher of Mathematics and French. While on secondment to the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST), she worked across many areas including Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA), Numeracy and Modern Foreign Languages (MFL). During this time, she led the design of teacher Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for the newly revised curriculum in Mathematical Applications. Patricia holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Higher Diploma in Education in Mathematics and French. She previously completed two postgraduate programmes in Maynooth University, namely the Higher Diploma in Educational Management and Administration (2003) and the Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership (2009). She graduated from Waterford Institute of Technology in 2019 with a Master of Arts Management in Education (MAME). Patricia’s research interests include initial teacher education and the role both mentoring and reflective practice play within. In her doctoral studies, Patricia is exploring the potential of a dialogic, reciprocal relationship between Pre-Service Teacher (PST) and Cooperating Teacher (CT) in the Mathematics classroom. The study seeks to explore the potential of a more collaborative, structured model of support to enable both teachers develop their pedagogical content knowledge in Mathematics.

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