Using narrative collage as a research tool, student teachers at MIE critically reflected upon significant A/R/T learning moments concerning the elements of visual art, the world(s) of visual art, creating visual art and teaching visual arts in primary school.
Art | Teaching | Curriculum evaluation
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Completed as part of Module 4: Visual Arts, Inclusion and Innovation for the Master in Education Studies (Visual arts) degree, supervised by Dr. Michael Flannery.
Art | Education, Elementary
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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 proposes that from a visual art perspective, STEAM can create exciting, new
Art | Education, Elementary | Classroom environment
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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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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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