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Becoming an educator in and through the arts: forming and informing emerging teachers' professional identity (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)
This article examines student experience and identity formation within an arts education module (involving music, drama and visual arts) on an initial teacher education programme in Ireland. Student reflections (n ¼ 106) ...
Other voices: the power of music for children in direct provision (Pre-published version)
(RTÉ [Raidió Teilifís Éireann] Brainstorm, 2018)
Opinion: a series of music workshops and interviews with children in a direct provision centre has shown how making music can foster a sense of belonging and community.
Exploring teacher-artist partnership as a model of CPD for supporting and enhancing arts education in Ireland: A research report
(Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, 2016)
We are at a crossroads in Ireland with regard to teacher-artist partnerships. This joint governmental approach to these partnerships represents a crucial move towards a cohesive arts education strategy for schools. This ...
Power in numbers: Ways forward for musical communities (Pre-published version)
(The Journal of Music, 2016)
Rhetoric and reality: Examining the policy-practice interface of European and Irish arts policy (Pre-published version)
(EERA [European Educational Research Association], 2013)
This paper addresses European and Irish arts and cultural policy as both a form of ‘rhetoric’, or policy intention and ‘reality’, viewed as policy enactment. Taking a sociocultural view, social, economic, cultural and ...
‘Collaborative creativity’ within a jazz ensemble as a musical and social practice (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2014)
This article seeks to explore ‘collaborative creativity’ within the musical and social practices of a local jazz ensemble in Ireland. Within this study, concepts of creativity are firmly rooted within socio-cultural contexts ...
Report on National Music Education Conference (Pre-published version)
(The Journal of Music, 2012)
New direction for education sector (Pre-published version)
(Public Affairs Ireland, 2011)