Dr Elizabeth O'Brien

    Education

    Biography

    Elizabeth O’Brien is Assistant Professor of Teacher Education and PME 1 Course Leader at Maynooth University Department of Education in Ireland. Her research interests lie in the philosophy and theory of education, educational policy analysis and curriculum studies, and teacher education.


    Elizabeth is passionate about living well in educational worlds, and explores the roles reading and the arts can play through her research and teaching. She is co-author of Dancing in the Dark: A Survivor’s Guide to the University and co-founder of the Philosophy of Education Reading Network www.philofed.com.

    Book

    Year Publication
    2023 Elizabeth O'Brien (2023) The Educator and The Ordinary: A Philosophical Approach to Initial Teacher Education. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34306-3
    2021 Pirrie, A, Fang, N., and O’Brien, E. (2021) Dancing in the Dark: A Survivors Guide to the University. Edinburgh: Tilosophy Press.

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2023 Elizabeth O'Brien (2023) 'Mentorship and the Educator’s Voice'. Educational Philosophy and Theory, .
    2023 Elizabeth O'Brien (2023) 'The Educator, Interrupted/El educador, interrumpido'. Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, 35 (1):19-38. [DOI]
    2021 Gibbs, A. and O’Brien, E. (2021) 'Out of Love for any thing? A response to Vlieghe and Zamojski on some pedagogical problems with an object-oriented ‘educational love’'. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55 (1):215-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12521
    2019 Mahon, Á., O’Brien, E. (2019) 'Risky Subjectivities in Phillip Pullman’s Northern Lights'. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 37 :181-193. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-017-9581-4
    2019 Mahon, Á. & O’Brien, E. (2019) 'Resonance, Response, Renewal: Literary Education in Rorty and Cavell'. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 52 (4):695-708. [DOI]
    2007 O'Brien, E., Gomes, D.A., Sehgal, S. and Nathanson, M.H. (2007) 'Hormonal Regulation of Nuclear Permeability'. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282 (6):4210-4217. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M606300200

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2022 Pirrie, A, Fang, N., and O’Brien, E. (2022) '‘Bothy Culture’ Towards a New Ethics for the University' In: N/A. Singapore : Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5277-6
    2020 Mahon, Á. and O’Brien, E. (2020) 'Rorty’s Literary Culture: Reading, Redemption, and The Heart’s Invisible Furies' In: The Cambridge Companion to Rorty. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
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