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 16. Setting Learning Free: The Art of the Librarian in Education Aidan Clifford and Kathleen Moran 17. Writing from Life: A Conversational Pedagogy for Creative Writing Kevin McDermott 18. Making a Difference: Engaging Young Refugees in the Civic Space of the Museum Tadgh Crowley SECTION 4: ARTS-RELATED RESEARCH 19. The Affordances of the Digital: The Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository (ACERR), Ireland Orla Murphy 20. The Change Lab: An Arts-based Research Approach in Initial Teacher Education Fiona King and Lucy Hill 21. Returning to Research in Art Education: Notes from the Field Dónal O'Donoghue 22.
Postscripts and Future Foci Mary Shine Thompson Notes on Contributors Index.