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Roland Tormey
Roland Tormey in 2016
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Dublin
NationalityIrish
Known forTeacher education research
Educational evaluation
Engineering ethics
Academic background
EducationSociology
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
ThesisThe part-time soul : case studies in the management of culture and flexibility in Irish retail (2011)
Doctoral advisorJames Wickham
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-disciplineIntercultural education
Teacher education
InstitutionsEPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Main interestsIntercultural education
Teacher education
Emotions in Teaching and Learning
Student learning in team-based projects
Engineering ethics
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/education/teaching/teaching-support/research-and-innovation/

Roland Tormey (born 1971 in Dublin) is an Irish sociologist, teacher, researcher and curriculum developer. He is the head of Teaching Support Centre at EPFL's (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) College of Humanities.[1][2]

Career[edit]

Tormey studied sociology and social administration at the University College Dublin and earned his bachelor's degree in 1992. He then enrolled in a PhD in sociology and joined James Wickham at the Trinity College Dublin. He graduated in 2000 with a thesis on "The Part-Time Soul: Case Studies in the Management of Culture and Flexibility in Irish Retail."[3] At the London South Bank University he earned a postgraduate certificate in development and environmental education in 2000. From 1996 to 2004 he was a lecturer in sociology at Mary Immaculate College at the University of Limerick,[4] before moving to the Department of Education and Professional Studies at University of Limerick, where he become Department Head in 2009.[5]

Since 2011, he has worked at EPFL, where he teaches and researches in learning sciences and engineering education and is head of the Teaching Support Centre.[1][2]

Research[edit]

While at University of Limerick and at the Mary Immaculate College Tormey's research focus lay on the representation of ethnicity and national identity in school curricula, which contributed to the development of the Irish National Intercultural Education Guidelines for Irish Primary and Post-primary schools;[6][7] the pedagogy of social sciences, where he studied the development of social scientific thinking in upper secondary school students and was instrumental in the development of Irish national syllabus for Sociology and Political Science;[8][9] and emotional intelligence and emotional competences in initial teacher education. This work highlighted the emotional demands on student teachers as well as calling into question numerous pre-existing assumptions about teacher emotional intelligence and about the relationship between measured emotional intelligence and teacher performance .[10][11][12]

His current research is focused on evidence-informed approaches to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teacher learning at universities;[13][14][15] the development of meta-cognition in students transitioning into STEM;[16][17][18] and the impact of gender on group work experiences of engineering students.[19] An emerging research area Tormey peruses is the study of emotions in engineering ethics education.[20]

His research was featured in the Swiss television RTS[21][22] and at the French CRI.[23]

Distinctions[edit]

Tormey is a member of the board of directors of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI; elected in 2020),[24] member of the board of directors of Global Schoolroom (since 2013),[25] and co-chair of the SEFI Engineering Ethics Special Interest Group (since 2019).[26] He was previously a member of the board of the Swiss Faculty Development Network (SFDN; 2016–2020).[27] He has represented Ireland on the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) steering committee and task force on the decade of education for sustainable development and was co-chair of the UNECE Expert Group on Competences in ESD from 2009 to 2011.[28]

Selected works[edit]

  • Corcoran, Roisin P.; Tormey, Roland (2013). "Does emotional intelligence predict student teachers' performance?". Teaching and Teacher Education. 35: 34–42. doi:10.1016/j.tate.2013.04.008.
  • Corcoran, Roisin P.; Tormey, Roland (2012). "How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers?". Teaching and Teacher Education. 28 (5): 750–759. doi:10.1016/j.tate.2012.02.007.
  • Corcoran, Roisin P.; Tormey, Roland (2012). Developing Emotionally Competent Teachers: Emotional Intelligence and Pre-service Teacher Education. ISBN 978-3-0343-0786-4.
  • Tormey, Roland; Henchy, Deirdre (2008). "Re-imagining the traditional lecture: An action research approach to teaching student teachers to 'do' philosophy". Teaching in Higher Education. 13 (3): 303–314. doi:10.1080/13562510802045337. S2CID 73637131.
  • Tormey, Roland (2006). "The construction of national identity through primary school history: The Irish case". British Journal of Sociology of Education. 27 (3): 311–324. doi:10.1080/01425690600750494. S2CID 145268027.
  • Corcoran, Róisín; Tormey, Roland (2010). "Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education". Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2 (2): 2448–2457. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.352. S2CID 143541425.
  • Raca, Mirko; Tormey, Roland; Dillenbourg, Pierre (2014). "Sleepers' lag - study on motion and attention". Proceedins of the Fourth International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge - LAK '14. pp. 36–43. doi:10.1145/2567574.2567581. ISBN 9781450326643. S2CID 8900585.
  • Tormey, Roland; Gleeson, Jim (2012). "Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities". Irish Educational Studies. 31 (2): 157–173. doi:10.1080/03323315.2012.676234. S2CID 145647918.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Supporting Pedagogical Innovation". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Teaching Support Center within the Educational Affairs Department". Education Office Newsletter. epfl.ch. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  3. ^ Tormey, Roland (2000). The part-time soul : case studies in the management of culture and flexibility in Irish retail (thesis thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology. hdl:2262/80271.
  4. ^ Tormey, Roland (1 January 1999). "Disadvantage or Disadvantaging: Conceptualising Class Differences in Education as a Disease or as a Process?". Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies. 2 (1). doi:10.21427/D7VT7W. ISSN 2009-8642.
  5. ^ Tormey, Roland (1 June 2010). "The silent politics of educational disadvantage and the National Anti-poverty Strategy". Irish Educational Studies. 29 (2): 189–199. doi:10.1080/03323311003779076. ISSN 0332-3315. S2CID 16207460.
  6. ^ "Intercultural Education in the Post-Primary School" (PDF). Intercultural Education in the Post-Primary School.
  7. ^ "Intercultural Education in the Primary School – Guidelines for Schools" (PDF). National Council for Curriculum and Assessment.
  8. ^ "01 February 2016 – Launch of a new Leaving Certificate subject, Politics and Society, by Minister O'Sullivan". Department of Education and Skills. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  9. ^ Assessment (NCCA), National Council for Curriculum and. "Politics and Society". NCCA. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  10. ^ Corcoran, Roisin P.; Tormey, Roland (1 July 2012). "How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers?". Teaching and Teacher Education. 28 (5): 750–759. doi:10.1016/j.tate.2012.02.007. ISSN 0742-051X.
  11. ^ Corcoran, Roisin; Tormey, Roland (10 July 2012). Developing Emotionally Competent Teachers. doi:10.3726/978-3-0353-0328-5. ISBN 9783035303285. Retrieved 7 January 2021. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  12. ^ Uitto, Minna; Jokikokko, Katri; Estola, Eila (1 August 2015). "Virtual special issue on teachers and emotions in Teaching and teacher education (TATE) in 1985–2014". Teaching and Teacher Education. 50: 124–135. doi:10.1016/j.tate.2015.05.008. ISSN 0742-051X.
  13. ^ Isaac, Siara; Le Duc, Ingrid; Hardebolle, Cécile; Tormey, Roland (2 February 2018), "Training and development needs for a 21st century academic", Global Perspectives on Teaching Excellence, Routledge, pp. 118–129, doi:10.4324/9781315211251-9, ISBN 978-1-315-21125-1, retrieved 8 January 2021
  14. ^ Tormey, Roland; Hardebolle, Cécile; Isaac, Siara (3 May 2020). "The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants". European Journal of Engineering Education. 45 (3): 378–392. Bibcode:2020EJEE...45..378T. doi:10.1080/03043797.2019.1584606. ISSN 0304-3797. S2CID 116062127.
  15. ^ "Teaching Science and Engineering". edX. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  16. ^ Tormey, Roland, (19..- ...) (2017). Apprendre à étudier : guide à l'usage des étudiants en sciences et ingénierie. Hardebolle, Cécile, (1981– ...). Lausanne. ISBN 978-2-88915-199-8. OCLC 987790163.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ Tormey, Roland; Hardebolle, Cécile; Pinto, Francisco; Jermann, Patrick (17 August 2020). "Designing for impact: a conceptual framework for learning analytics as self-assessment tools". Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. 45 (6): 901–911. doi:10.1080/02602938.2019.1680952. ISSN 0260-2938. S2CID 214549823.
  18. ^ "EPFL Companion". EPFL. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  19. ^ Aeby, Prisca; Fong, Roger; Vukmirovic, Mila; Isaac, Siara; Tormey, Roland (1 January 2019). "The Impact of Gender on Engineering Students' Group Work Experiences". International Journal of Engineering Education. 35 (3).
  20. ^ "Roland Tormey". people.epfl.ch. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  21. ^ 12h45 – Le rendez-vous santé: Cécile Hardebolle et Roland Tormey délivrent leurs recettes pour apprendre à étudier – Play RTS (in French), retrieved 8 January 2021
  22. ^ "Apprendre à étudier – Roland Tormey et Cécile Hardebolle – ppur.org – YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  23. ^ "5 ROLAND TORMEY – YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  24. ^ "People in SEFI – SEFI". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  25. ^ "Our Team". Global Schoolroom. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  26. ^ "Ethics – SEFI". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  27. ^ "roland.tormey@epfl.ch – Swiss Faculty Development Network". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  28. ^ "Third meeting of the Expert Group on Competences in ESD | UNECE". unece.org. Retrieved 8 January 2021.

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