Dr
Anne Marie
Kavanagh
Academic biography
Anne Marie Kavanagh (PhD) is Assistant Professor in Ethical and Intercultural Education in the School of
Human Development, DCU Institute of Education. She teaches and researches in the areas of ethical education, social justice education, intercultural education, climate justice education and human rights education.
She is currently PI on an ETBI funded project which is developing an e-Learning module for primary and post-primary teachers on supporting social and cultural diversity in Irish schools. She is also the DCU representative on the Advisory Committee for the Framework for the Recognition of Qualification to Teach Ethical, Multi-Belief and Values Education being led by Educate Together and ETBI.
She is a member of the steering committee of the DCU Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education (CHRCE) and a member of the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre. In 2021, her first co-edited book (with Prof Fionnuala Waldron & Dr Benjamin Mallon) 'Teaching for Social Justice and Sustainable Development Across the Primary Curriculum' was published by Routledge. This volume supports educators in integrating meaningful education for social justice and sustainability across a wide range of curricular subjects at primary level.
Anne Marie was awarded the INTO Vere Foster Medal in 2004 for obtaining the highest marks in Teaching Practice and the Curriculum Areas of Education over the three-year BEd programme in St. Patrick's College. In 2006, she was awarded the Kellogg's Scholarship and completed an MEd in Education (St. Patrick's College). In 2009, she received the Michael Jordan
Fellowship in Education and completed her PhD at DCU under the supervision of Professor Fionnuala Waldron and Dr Audrey
Bryan. In 2015, she was voted Lecturer of the Year by the students of St. Patrick's College.
Anne Marie welcomes contact from anyone interested in the areas of ethics and ethical education, social justice education, critical multicultural education and human rights education.