Since the foundation of a national system of primary education in 1831, curricular reforms – in the guise of the Revised Programme of Instruction (1900), Curaclam na Bunscoile (1971), and the Primary School Curriculum (1999) – have succeeded in both broadening the definition and
Visual education | Education in art | Teaching
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Metaphorical thinking competency (MTC) is fundamental to literacy development. It enables students to decipher, conjure, express and evaluate specific, multiple or subtle meanings in their written work and the writings of others. While looking at works of visual art is used in th
Art | Teaching | Literacy
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This study examines how personal, autobiographical memories offer potential meaning for a wider audience. Through interrogating a set of cultural, familial artefacts, I explore how memory and forgetting are intrinsically linked to our identity, subjectivity and sense of belong
Autobiography in art | Memory | Family
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Metaphorical thinking competency (MTC) is fundamental to literacy development. It enables students to decipher, conjure, express and evaluate specific, multiple or subtle meanings in their written work and the writings of others. While looking at works of visual art is used in th
Art | Teaching | Education, Elementary
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Persistence is deemed to be a critical disposition for 21st century learners, graduates and educators. Those who master persistence are abler in today’s innovation-driven and ever-changing world to work through challenges and adversity, deal constructively with failure and achiev
Art | Persistence | Creative ability
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Ideation, the capacity to conjure and develop ideas is a crucial part of creativity, creative teaching and learning. However, one of the key impediments to teachers’ creativity in the classroom is low ideation self-efficacy. Teachers with low ideation self-efficacy tend to avoid
Self-efficacy | Teacher educators | Art
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Art investigation is an integral part of the world of visual arts. First hand exposure to, and engagement with diverse original works of art in a gallery setting is lauded as an ideal learning scenario. However gallery spaces are not designed for interactivity and most museum wal
Visual education | Teaching | Shared virtual environments
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MES students in visual arts at MIE undertake desk research comprising of literature review and online research culminating in a multimedia resource that aims to improve educational practice. This research treats inclusive visual art for older people in a care setting.
Art | Arts in education | Community health services for older people
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Online continuing professional development courses have been a highly popular choice in recent years with Irish primary teachers. For the researcher, computer-mediated communications from a virtual learning community can provide a rich pool of data. This thesis documents some of
Visual education | Teaching | Education (Elementary)
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The key challenge of realistic observational drawing is translating the properties of an observed three-dimensional arrangement of objects onto a two-dimensional plane in a precise and realistic manner. It entails a concerted and iterative looking-holding-drawing process that inv
Drawing ability | Teaching | Education
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