Research
A selection of academic research and essays from the PME programme.
Research wall from Cancel Culture by Hannah Doyle, Trudy Feighery, Elayne Harrington and Eimear Dolan, 2020
Understanding Development Education in the context of Arts-Based Research
A research dissertation completed as part of the PME (Art and Design) programme
This piece of interpretivist research is grounded in the experience of Change Lab which is a four week long studio based Development Education module in the Professional Masters of Education (PME) programme at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. The Change
Lab brief for 2020 describes it as
a space where your art practice has a social and ethical dimension as you create work that investigates complex, real world problems. The Change Lab explores the concept of agency and ownership through fostering collaborative teaching and learning methods. Over the process of the Change Lab you will engage from the tripartite context of being an artist, a researcher and a teacher. (Change Lab Brief, 2020)
Installation photo of Cancel Culture by Hannah Doyle, Trudy Feighery, Elayne Harrington and Eimear Dolan featuring the specially commissioned words of Carl Óg.
Change Lab
Embedding Development Education into practice as artists, researchers and educators
The ideology behind our work was to explore and interpret Cancel Culture. We ask the question Does Cancel Culture Kill Free Speech? We look at the fear that people have of expressing their opinions, how opportunity for debate and integrity is crushed, and their thoughts homogenised. Through the lens of spoken, written and visual text, imagery and material we delve into the model of being CANCELLED…
The Relationship between the Art I practice and the Art I teach
How do these different sides of my identity - artist and teacher - inform and interact with each other?
This essay is based on personal reflections about what led me to study art, design and education and how these moments of reflection might influence my teacher identity. These experiences are personal and present a qualitative narrative from which to consider my own artist teacher identity dynamic. I used a life history approach to this essay as I felt that with my many years of experience it would be interesting for me to reflect on the path that brought me here and how that might influence my future teacher identity and approach.
Full essay available available on request.
Cultural Diversity in the Post-Primary Art History Curriculum
Literature Review
This literature review sets out to investigate if the current Art History and Appreciation specification taught in post primary senior cycle in the ROI is responding and relevant to learners from culturally diverse backgrounds.
This review will look at how diverse representation is of vital importance to young people from culturally diverse backgrounds in Ireland today through the curriculum they engage with in school. It will also look at if and how Intercultural Education is embedded in the Art History and Appreciation element of the Art course at Senior Cycle.