Eileen Keane EdD

Contact

Rannóg

Department of Arts, Maths, PE and Early Childhood Education

Role

Lecturer in Education

Course Leader MES (Visual Arts)

Biography

Dr Eileen Keane is an educator, artist and researcher. Her research and scholarship focus on children’s art making in formal and informal contexts. Specifically, her work focuses on the examination of visual arts related pedagogical approaches, traditions and value systems that inform teacher identity and practice in the Irish primary school context. Her work and contributions focus on the conceptualisation and embodied experience of the artist-teacher in the Irish primary context. Her work is informed by continental philosophy, contemporary arts practice and contemporary culture. Her doctoral research is entitled ‘An Artist-Teacher exploration of a Room 13-informed space in the Irish primary after-school setting’.

Eileen has worked in primary, community, initial teacher educational contexts for a number of years. Her qualifications in education span primary, further, adult and community education. Past arts practice encompasses community and socially engaged arts projects and commercial commission. Her work has been disseminated at group and solo exhibitions. Her work is held in private collections nationally and internationally. Eileen’s current studio practice focuses on examination of spatial, temporal and social dimensions of place, through traditional and lens based media. Her current place-based work examines blanket bog land in Derrigimlagh, Connemara, County Galway.

Before working in MIE, Eileen worked as a primary school teacher, contributed to the development of CPD contemporary art workshops for children and has delivered children’s rights workshops at the Ombudsman for Children’s Office. She worked in Visual Arts department in Mary Immaculate College, in the School of Arts Education and Movement in the Visual Arts department and School of STEM Education, Innovation and Global Studies on modules in Visual Arts, Teacher as person and Global Citizenship Education.

Qualifications

Doctorate in Education

M.A Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult and Community Education)

B.Ed (Hons) (1.1)

Cert. Art Therapy (1.1)

Royal Irish Academy of Music (Piano VIII)

Teaching

Publications and other outputs

Thesis

Keane, E., (2015) Exploring the potential of participatory arts within the teaching of the Equality and Justice Strand of the Learn Together Curriculum.

Educational Resources

Keane, E. (2018). Fair or Foul, Educational Resource, Amnesty International. (Rights Sparks programme for Human Rights Education)  

Professional Journal Articles

Keane, E. (2015). Educate Together Ed & Support News for Educate Together teachers Article: Socially Engaged Art and the Learn Together Curriculum.

Research Reports

O’Sullivan, C., Clotworthy, E., Nugent, M., Colleary, S., Keane, E., Piazzoli, E., Gubbins, E., Krakaur, L., Kerin, M., McCormick, S., & Heeran Flynn, L. (2023). Arts Alive: A literature review to support curriculum specification development for the area of Arts Education. NCCA.

Conference Contributions

Keane, E. (2023). Disrupting spatio-temporal realities to expand landscapes of Practice, An Artist Teacher exploration of the Room 13 in the Irish primary school setting [Paper presentation]. The National Society for Art and Design Education. Chester University Manchester.

Keane, E. (2018). Irish Education System [Paper presentation]. New Vision Newspaper. Kampala.

Visual Art Production

Keane, E. (2020) 'Solo Exhibition entitled ‘Landscapes’ Town Hall Theatre, Galway (Galway’s municipal theatre) Curated by Margaret Nolan, opened by Lenny Antonelli, (Author of East of Ireland Walks- on River & Canal, a Walking Guide published by Collins Press, co-editor of Passive House Plus, Contributor to BBC Wildlife, Irish Times and the Guardian)

Keane, E. (2020). A collection of pieces from the exhibition ‘Landscapes’ for event: Celebrating Women in Nature Writing, Claddagh Arts Centre.

Keane, E. (2020). A collection of pieces from the exhibition ‘Landscapes’ for event: Mary Immaculate Arts Day.

Keane, E. (2019). NAEA (National Association of Art Educators) (USA) Member exhibition (Jury-selected).

Keane, E. (2017). Group Exhibition Galway Fringe Festival.

Keane, E. (2016). ‘Spellbound’ Group Illustration Exhibition FilmBase, Temple Bar, Dublin.

Keane, E. (2016). Group Exhibition Galway Design Week, Galway.

Keane, E. (2015). Grad Show MA in Socially Engaged Art NCAD.

Other Outputs

Contributor to Transactions #1 (2015) Series of Publications from MA SEA at NCAD, Dublin and Stockyard Institute Chicago

Research/Professional Interests

• Children’s engagement with visual culture and arts practice in formal and informal contexts.
• Children’s relational agency and emergent arts practices in online spaces.
• Critical, relational and emancipatory art practices.
• Access and participation in the arts.
• Artist-teacher identity and agency in educational contexts.
• Value systems and traditions of art making in the Irish primary school context.
• Place based visual inquiry - examinations of spatial, temporal and social dimensions of place.

Professional Activities

Contributor to the Creative Arts Summer School Programme for Access to Higher Education (PATH) for promoting access, inclusion and diversity in the Creative Arts in Ireland. ABDCE + Artists and the Botanic Gardens: Creating and Developing Educational Innovation

Grants

• Project Team for YPCE Arts Council Initial Teacher Education Residency Award in collaboration with Colm Ó Foghlú. Funding Awarded: €20,000 (2023-2024)
• Project Team for YPCE Arts Council Initial Teacher Education Residency Award in collaboration with Colm Ó Foghlú. Funding Awarded: €20,000 (2023-2024)
• Tender team for A literature review to support curriculum specification development for the area of Arts Education. Consortium of researchers from Marino Institute of Education and Trinity College Dublin Funding Awarded: €35,000 (2021-2023)
• Project Team for YPCE Arts Council Initial Teacher Education Residency Award in collaboration with Duffy Mooney Sheppard and Darren Yorke. Funding Awarded: €20,000 (2022-2023)
• Project Team for YPCE Arts Council Initial Teacher Education Residency Award in collaboration with Duffy Mooney Sheppard and Darren Yorke. Funding Awarded: €20,000 (2022-2023)
• Co-led Percent for Art Scheme in Bracken ETNS “Studio that has no Roof” Featured Schools Project on publicart.ie Project Fund: Budget Range €35,000-€70,000
• Teachers Make a Difference programme Funded International Visit sponsored by the Irish Embassy
• Agenda 21 Fund (Community Action Fund) for Community-School links Ecological Art Project (2015)

Awards

Winner of the Girls in Tech innovation competition.

Competitor in the Accenture Leaders of tomorrow innovation competition

AHEAD UDL Badge

Membership

National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)

Irish Museum Association (IMA)

International Society for Education through Art (InSea)

National Association for Art Educators (NAEA)