tara ćirić

Hello there. I’m assuming you’re here because of my professional profile as a researcher or teacher-educator. In reality, I’m a Serbo-Croatian gal currently living in Ireland with my spouse who loves knitting, reading and cycling. I spent most of my childhood and early adulthood in Canada (Vancouver & Montréal) where I started my professional career as an educational psychologist before going into academia. I speak Serbo-Croatian, English, French and Italian. Working on my Spanish…

In a more formal sense, I’m a researcher and teacher-educator based in the Department of Education at Maynooth University in Ireland. My PhD work focused on the educational experiences of young people in residential care from an epistemically diverse POV, working with young people directly as well as professionas and policy makers.

My expertise lies in participatory methodologies with young people in care, particularly teenagers. My research focuses broadly on the manifestations of educational disadvantage and inequality through the perspectives and expertise of young people. Most recently, this has included working with young people about questions of school attendance, school access, and agency as a provocateur of school engagement.

As a teacher-educator, my focus and interest is in the philosophy of education and social justice education. I love working with dialogic inquiry and principles of philosophy for children.