P U B L I C A T I O N S

 NONA M. LYONS

Research Scholar

University College Cork, IrelandNona Lyons, who holds a doctorate in psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is Visiting Research Scholar at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland since 2001 where she has been working with arts and sciences faculty to create reflective portfolios as a means of inquiring into and documenting their own teaching practices and their students' learning. Her current research is directed towards documenting the results of these efforts and what portfolio-makers claim they are learning from the process, especially their awareness of themselves and their students as knowers, of what they know and how they know it. Her book, Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry: Mapping a Way of Knowing for Professional Reflective Inquiry, was launched at UCC on November 8, 2010, with the six contributing UCC authors and at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) convention in Denver, April, 2010.   

In Ireland, Lyons works closely with members of the Department of Applied Social Studies and the Education Department at UCC, and with faculty at St. Angela’s College, Sligo.  She also has introduced the use of portfolios and reflective practice at Trinity College and University College Dublin, and the Dublin Institute of Technology. She was a member of the panel of visiting experts and peer reviewers for the science initiative for the program of research in third level institutions (PRTLI) of the Higher Education Authority, (HEA, 2003).

Dr. Lyons has taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and been the director of teacher education programs at Brown University, Dartmouth College and University of Southern Maine. She is a member of the European Educational Research Association (EERA), Educational Studies Association, Ireland (ESAI), and the American Educational Research Association (AERA, editor-reviewer 2001-2004). She founded the Special Interest Group: Reflective Portfolios in Teaching and Teacher Education, AERA in 1994 and was recipient of a Spencer Foundation award, National Academy of Education (1987-1989). 

Lyons book, Narrative Inquiry in Practice: Advancing the Knowledge of Teaching, edited with V. LaBoskey, was selected for the Book of the Year Award by the American Educational Research Association, Narrative Special Interest Group in 2004.  A selected bibliography of publications is listed below, many available on-line.

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B O O K S

Lyons, Nona; Halton Carmel, (Editors)  Learning Over Time: How Professionals Learn, Know and use Knowledge. University College Cork. (2017) >READ BOOK

Lyons, Nona. New York Stories (2017) >READ BOOK

 Lyons, Nona. Knowing Ireland (2017) >READ BOOK

Lyons, Nona, (Ed.) Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry: Mapping a Way of Knowing  for Professional Reflective Inquiry,     Springer 1st Edition (2010) 

Philosophers have warned of the perils of a life spent without reflection, but what constitutes reflective inquiry—and why it’s necessary in our lives—can be an elusive concept. Synthesizing ideas from minds as diverse as John Dewey and Paulo Freire, the Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry presents reflective thought in its most vital aspects, not as a fanciful or nostalgic exercise, but as a powerful means of seeing familiar events anew, encouraging critical thinking and crucial insight, teaching and learning. >>More 

Lyons, N. & LaBoskey, V. (Eds.) Narrative Inquiry in Practice: Advancing the Knowledge of Teaching.  NY: Teachers College Press, Columbia University. (2002) [Book of the Year Award, American Educational Research Association, Narrative Special Interest Group 2004]   >>More

Lyons, N., Hyland, A. & Ryan, N. (Eds.) Advancing the Scholarship of Teaching and  Learning Through a Reflective Portfolio Process, University College Cork, Ireland. (2002)

• The Project: Interrogating, Documenting, and Representing The Scholarship of Teaching through a Reflective Portfolio Process, p. 15
• Results: What Faculty Say They Learn and ValueChapter 12 ,p109.  >>More
  

Lyons, N. (Compliadora)  El uso de portafolios. Propuestas para un nuevo profesionalismo docente. Buenos Aires. Amorrortu. (1999) [Spanish language edition of With Portfolio in Hand: Validating the New Teacher Professionalism] >>More

Lyons, N. (Ed.) With Portfolio in Hand: Validating the New Teacher Professionalism. NY: Teachers College Press, Columbia University. (1998) >>More

Gilligan, C., Lyons, N. & Hanmer, T. (Eds.)   Making Connections: The Relational Worlds of Adolescent Girls at Emma Willard School, Troy, NY: Emma Willard School, Harvard University Press. (1990) >>More                              

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Lyons, Nona Plessner,  Course Director: From Subject to Citizen, Education Development Center (1970) >>More

 JOURNALS & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Lyons, Nona; Halton, Carmel; Freidus, Helen, "Reflective Inquiry as Transformative Self-study for Professional Education and Learning," Studying Teacher Education: a journal of self-study of teacher education practices,  Vol. 9, No. 2. 163-174, July 2013 >>More

 Lyons, N. & Halton, C., "The Portfolio: In Support of a New Scholarship of Assessment for Professional Learning," Chapter in forthcoming book: The Emperor’s  New           Clothes : Issues and Alternatives in Uses of the Portfolio in Teacher Education Programs. Strong-Wilson, T. & Sanford, K. (Eds.) Peter Lang, In Press (2012) >>More           

Lyons, N., "Seeing into Suspicion: Weighing the Probabilities of Contending Narratives, Developing as a Narrative Inquirer," The Journal of Educational Research, 103:103-112, 2010 >>More

Lyons, N., “Educating for Inquiry and Exchange through a Reflective Portfolio Process: Making Teaching a University-wide Scholarly Imperative” Chapter 5,

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Halton, C. & Lyons, N., "Educating Practitioners for Reflective Inquiry: The Contribution of a Portfolio Process to New Ways of Knowing," Chapter 13 in O'Farrell, C. (Ed.) Teaching Portfolio in Ireland: A Handbook. Trinity College, Dublin (2007) >>More

Lyons, N., "Reflective engagement as professional development in the lives of university teachers," Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, Volume 12, (2) 151-168 (18) April 2006 >>More

Lyons, N.  & Freidus, H.,  “The Reflective Portfolio in Self-Study: Inquiring into and Representing a Knowledge of Practice,” in Loughran, J. & LaBoskey, V. (Eds.). The Handbook of Self-Study, London: Kluwer Press. (2004) >>More

Lyons, N. "The Centrality of Reflective Engagement in Learning and Professional
Development: the UCC Experience," Chapter 3 in  Hyland, A. (Ed.) University College Cork as a Learning Organisation. University College Cork. (July 2004) >>More

Lyons, N., “Advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning: Reflective portfolio inquiry in higher education ‐ a case study of one institution,” Irish Educational Studies, 22 (1): 69-88, Spring 2003 >>More

Lyons, N.,  “Reflection in teaching:  Can it be developmental?” Teacher Education Quarterly, 1998 >>More

Lyons, N., "Re-imagining Teacher Education: A Review of Learning to Teach: Teaching to Learn--Stories of Collaboration in Teacher Education." Curriculum Inquiry, 1995 >>More

Lyons, Nona, "Maine could become a model for nation in education efforts". Maine Sunday Telegram, June 12, 1994  >>More

Lyons, N., "Narrative, Luck, and Ethics: The Role of Chance in Ethical Encounters, in Literature and Real Life Experiences." Center for the Study of Ethics in Society. Western Michigan University. Volume 7, No. 3, February, 1994 >>More

Lyons, N., "Dilemmas of Knowing: Ethical and Epistemological Dimensions of Teachers Work and Development." Harvard Educational Review,  60:159-180, May 1990 [and in Chapter 13: 195-217 in The Education Feminism Reader, Lynda Stone (Ed.), Routledge 1994] >>More

Lyons, N. & Saltonstall, R., "Why Executives Won't Talk To Their People:  Examining the Ethical Dimensions in Relationships Between Executives and Their  Employees."  Journal of Business Ethics, 7, 671-680, 1988 >>More

Lyons, N. "Ways of Knowing, Learning and Making M,oral Choices." Journal of Moral  Education, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1987 >>More

Lyons, N., "Two perspectives: on self, relationships and morality." Harvard Educational Review, 53:125-45, May 1983 >>More

 R E C E N T 

P U B L I C A T I O N S 

• 10 Books from 1970--
• 18 Journals & Chapters in   Books 1983--

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KNOWING  IRELAND

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Learning Over Time:

How Professionals Learn, Know and use Knowledge

 Nona Lyons and Carmel Halton

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New York Stories

Nona Plessner Lyons

2017

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                                                                    "It seemed as if there was a hunger to talk about teaching. Like the United States, Ireland had not encouraged public discussions of teaching at university level. Many entered teaching without study in teaching or learning," Lyons says. "But UCC faculty, who cared about teaching, were eager to share their experiences and their potential portfolio entries." 

-Nona Lyons, Editor, Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry 


Carmel Halton & Nona Lyons

Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry launched at UCC 08.11.2010                                                  “Primarily the Handbook is a review of how people today in a range of professions are being educated to think, especially to be reflective about their own professional work. Recent world-wide catastrophes in several professions have raised questions about the education of professionals. Their practices have revealed to observers deep concerns about professional education and the sense that present practices are mis-managed, short-changing both the profession as well as the professional.” >>More

      November 8, 2010- Professionals urged to reflect more  on their work.

A SPATE of scandals in banking, politics, religious life and social work has raised deep concerns about the education of professionals, according to US academic Prof Nona Lyons. >>More



• Interview with Nona Lyons, Editor, Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry, UCC (with Preface,  Table of Contents & Sample pages) >>More

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning     at University College Cork

Professor of Education, Aine Hyland saw the potential of the teaching and course portfolios as ways of supporting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning  (SoTL) within the university as a whole and invited Professor Nona Lyons to conduct a series of seminars with academic staff to compliment the launch of the President’s Award scheme.  (2001-2006ff) >>More

•  The Handbook >>YouTube

• Lyons, Nona, (Ed.) Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry: Mapping a Way of Knowing for Professional Reflective Inquiry , Springer, 1st Edition. (2010) >>More                                                                   
  



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