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Myers, Lindsay – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
Oliver Jeffers' best-selling picturebook "How to Catch a Star" (2004) has been the subject of several recent theatre adaptations for children. This paper provides a detailed case study of the 2017 stage adaptation created by the Irish-language theatre-company, Branar Téatar do Pháistí; an adaptation that has been highly praised for the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Theater Arts, Foreign Countries
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Fahey, Hannah – International Journal of Music Education, 2021
Throughout much of the 20th century, the Western classical vocal aesthetic dominated tertiary singing training in the Republic of Ireland. At the turn of the 21st century, and reflecting similar movements internationally, Irish institutions, examining boards and private teaching studios diversified to include musical theatre and popular styles of…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Education
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Parry, Rachel – Research in Drama Education, 2017
Speckled Egg Dance was established in Galway, Ireland, in 2013, to facilitate opportunities for learning disabled dance artists to develop semi-professional dance skills and independent choreographic practice. The company aims to contest normative perceptions of learning disabled dance ability, and to make learning disabled dance aesthetics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Dance, Dance Education
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Finneran, Michael – Research in Drama Education, 2016
Drama in Irish education is an enigmatic proposition, more observable in its absence than in its presence. This is at odds with the prominent status drama and theatre occupy in Irish society and cultural life. This article positions drama within the curriculums of the formal education system, contextualises the historical place and contemporary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama, Secondary School Curriculum, Theater Arts
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Helm, Francesca, Ed.; Beaven, Ana, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Virtual exchange is gaining popularity in formal and non-formal education, partly as a means to internationalise the curriculum, and also to offer more sustainable and inclusive international and intercultural experiences to young people around the world. This volume brings together 19 case studies (17 in higher education and two in youth work) of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Higher Education, Youth Programs
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Newell, Anna; Kleiman, Paul – London Review of Education, 2012
Between 2008-2010 the School of Medicine at Queen's University Belfast funded and supported two unique and intensive three week interdisciplinary performance projects in which medical and drama students worked together to create an experimental dance theatre piece. One of the unique aspects of this collaboration was that the medical students who…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Medical Schools, Creative Thinking
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Gregor, Keith, Ed. – International Journal of English Studies, 2002
This collection of papers includes the following: "Preface" (Keith Gregor); "Cultural Nationalism and the Irish Literary Revival" (David Pierce); "Transitions in Irish Miscellanies between 1923 and 1940" (Malcom Ballin); "Born into the Troubles: Deirdre Madden's 'Hidden Symptoms'" (Tamara Benito de la…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Females