Arts Education in Ireland

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Arts Education in Ireland (Book)

From Pedagogy to Practice

Edited by Dervil Jordan and Jane O'Hanlon

Arts in Education in Ireland: from pedagogy to practice examines the distinctive nature of arts-based learning in education in Ireland. It draws on recent research from pedagogy to practice in Irish schools. It examines the relevance of arts-based learning against the backdrop of the drive for 21st century skills. 40 b&w illus.

Category: Visual Arts

Series: Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education

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This book examines the distinctive nature of Arts Based Learning in Education (ABLE) in the context of a changing curriculum in Ireland. It draws on recent research on the state of the arts in Irish schools from early years, primary schools, post primary to higher education institutions.

The wide range of perspectives from pedagogy to practice draws on research in the visual arts, literature and the arts within teacher education. Teacher identity formation and students’ perceptions of learning within the writers in school’s scheme are some of the themes within the book. It also includes examples of collaborative, interdisciplinary practice between educational and cultural institutions. The book is situated within a rapidly changing curriculum policy framework and examines the relevance of arts-based learning against the backdrop of the drive for 21st century skills.

Dr Dervil Jordan is Emeritus Professor of Education at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and is a former Head of the School of Education. She has been involved in initial teacher education for over 30 years and her research interests are in teacher education, artist teacher identity and access to higher education.

Dr Jane O’Hanlon is the Head of Education with Poetry Ireland, coordinating its education and outreach programmes. Her doctoral research was on the unique character of arts learning within the formal education system, she is Fulbright Scholar Awardee for 2024.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Maureen Kennelly, Director of the Arts Council of Ireland

Acknowledgements

SECTION 1: PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY

1. Introduction: ‘Thoughts, Acts and Meanings’

Jane O’Hanlon

2. Cúinne an Ghiorria: Arts Education, a Core Curriculum and the Conundrums of Policy

Gary Granville

3. An Incredulity to Meta-narratives: Postmodern Philosophical Perspectives

Jones Irwin

4. A Posthuman Perspective in Arts-based Research with Children

Lucy Hill

SECTION 2: PEDAGOGY

5. ‘To Let my Imagination Grab My Pen’: Perceptions of Learning within the Writer-in-Schools-Scheme

Jane O’Hanlon

6. Visual Thinking Strategies: Practicing in the Field

Liz Coman

7. Quavers to Quadratics – An Interdisciplinary Science and Music Programme for Children

Shane D. Bergin, Marita Kerin and Nigel Flegg

8. ‘Cranking’ Composing: Reflections on Collaboration and Integrated Arts-based Performances

Michael Flannery and Mary Nugent

9. Signature Pedagogies of the Art Teacher

Dervil Jordan

10. ‘Beneath the Surface’ the Freud Project: A Cross-institutional Collaboration between NCAD School of Education and IMMA’s Engagement and Learning Department

Helen O. Donoghue, Dervil Jordan, Fiona King, Noel Guilfoyle and Mark Maguire

SECTION 3: PRACTICE

11. In my Craft or Sullen Art: A Writer in the Classroom

Siobhán Parkinson

12. Getting the Art of Hearing: Storytelling, Literacy, Literature, and Cognition

Patrick Ryan

13. The Write to Read Programme: Research-informed Pedagogies for Communities of Readers Writers, and Thinkers

Eithne Kennedy

14. Teacher Artist Partnership (TAP): Understanding, Entanglement, and Exploration through Creative Learning Relationships

Jenny Buggie and Vera McGrath

15. Artist Teacher Identity Formation

Dervil Jordan