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Professor Dennis Mulcahy

Dennis Mulcahy

Dennis is a professor in the Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Before joining Memorial in 1988, he worked for eleven years as a high school English Teacher. He completed his undergraduate education at MUN (B.A. and B.Ed.) and his graduate work at the University of Toronto (Masters and Ph.D. in curriculum studies).

He has taught a wide variety of courses in the general area of curriculum and instruction at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Since 1991, he has focused his research and development work in the area of rural education and small schools. Informing this work is his interest in and commitment to the value of community-based education and small-scale school organization. Part of his responsibility as a university professor is to play an active role in public policy debates that impact on the viability of small schools and rural communities.

Dennis' interests in rural education include community-based education, multi-grade classrooms, multi-age pedagogy, the role of the local school in community development, and community resistance to school closure and consolidation. He follows closely the increased reliance on distance education as a program delivery model for small and remote rural high schools. This technology has enormous potential but also has its own challenges in providing equitable educational opportunities for rural students.

Dennis is an active member of the U.S.-based National Rural Education Association and the Rural Education Significant Interest Group of the American Education Research Association (AERA). He has served as program Chair and Chair of the Rural Significant Interest Group. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Research in Rural Education and Education in Rural Australia.