Diarmuid McAuliffe
Lecturer in Education (Art)
Background
Diarmuid McAuliffe is a Lecturer in Education and subject leader for art and design at the School of Education, University of the West of Scotland. He is responsible there for primary and secondary art initial teacher education courses including the Professional Graduate Diploma in Secondary Art, which he set up when appointed in 2005 and the Artist Teacher Master of Education Programme (click here), which he recently developed in association with Glasgow Museums and the National Society for Education in Art and Design [NSEAD]. Prior to this he was a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Exeter. He has taught art in schools at all levels in the UK and in other European countries. In February 2009, he was part of an international team of experts who carried out a review of art and design education for the Lithuanian Ministry for Education and Science. His research interests include pedagogy and the history and philosophy of art and design education. In July 2009 he was joint convenor of the European Affective Education Network’s International Conference on Creativity and Emotional Wellbeing. His contribution to the co-authored book Art 3-11Reaching the Standard was published by Continuum Press in 2007. Diarmuid is a practising artist with work in various collections including the Irish State Collection (Office of Public Works) and is the Scotland representative on the NSEAD Continuing Professional Development Board.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
University of Warwick; MA with Distinction (Art and Design Education)
Limerick School of Art and Design; PGCE (Art and Design Education
Primary and Secondary)
Limerick School of Art and Design; Dip. Fine Art (painting)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books
Watts, Robert, Cox, Sue, McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, Grahame, Judy, Herne, Steve (2007) Teaching Art and Design 3-11 (Reaching the Standard), London/New York: Continuum International Publishing
Government Report
Janssens, Mart, McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, Meagher, Kieran, Snaras, Antanas, Sonnvilla-Weiss, Stefan, Vitola, Ilze (2009) Report on Assessment of Study Programmes in Art Education, for the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education, Ministry for Education and Science, Lithuania. April 2009.
Book Reviews
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, Book Review of Research in Art & Design Education: Issues and Exemplars (Ed by Richard Hickman) Intellect Books, in Interactive Discourse Vol.1 No.2, December 2008
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, Book Review of Elliot W. Eisner (1998) 'The Kind of Schools We Need: personal essays’, Portsmouth: Heinemann Press, in International Journal of Art and Design Education, Volume 18, Number 3
Other Recent Articles
Pirrie, Anne, McAULIFFE, Diarmuid (2008) What’s the big draw in Times Education Supplement, October 3, 2008
OTHER RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS /MEDIA
Essays, personal statements and artwork reproduced in over 20 exhibition catalogues to date.
Academic comment on issues relating to art and art education have recently featured in the following media: Times Education Supplement, ITV, BBC, Lithuanian State Television.
CONFERENCE AND OTHER PAPERS
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Seeing the Bigger Picture: drawing as a tool of engagement in curriculum reform’. A workshop presentation at the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Good Practice Conference on the role of the expressive arts in CfE, hosted by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIe) and Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS), Crowne Plaza, Glasgow, 4 November 2009.
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Drawing and affective engagement in the change agenda’. A paper delivered at the European Affective Education Network Conference, University of the West of Scotland, 7 July 2009.
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, Stories from the Digital Age:
an art teacher educator’s perspective on the impact of new technologies on teaching and learning. A paper delivered at Art Teachers’ Network Conference, Limerick School of Art & Design, 27 May 2009.
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Drawing as Tool of Engagement in a Whole-School Approach to Curriculum Change’, A paper delivered at National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) Annual Conference, London, 21 March 2009.
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Knowing More Than One Can Say: interrogating ‘certainties’ and ‘assumptions’ in visual arts educational discourse’. A paper delivered at the School of Education research seminar series, University of the West of Scotland,
2 May 2008
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Demands for Meaning and Meaningful Pedagogies: an art teacher educator’s perspective on the impact of new technologies on learning and teaching in art and design’, a poster delivered at the Scottish Teacher Education Committee (STEC) Conference, Glasgow, 28th April, 2008
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Virtual Meaning Making – Drawing, Convergent Media and the Curriculum for Excellence’ a paper delivered at State of the Art 6, National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD - Scotland) Annual Conference at the University of Strathclyde, 3rd November, 2007
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning in Art and Design: Digital Drawing’, a poster presentation at the University of Paisley Teaching and Learning Conference, 21st June 2007
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Notions of Identity and the More Able Pupil’
A paper delivered at the Scottish Network for Able Pupils (SNAP) Annual Conference at the University of Glasgow, 13th June, 2007
www.ablepupils.com
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Pedagogising Art – an enquiry into the particulars and universals of art making and learning in primary, secondary and tertiary education in England’, a paper delivered at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference, UMIST Manchester, 17th September 2004
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘The Artist as Pedagogue’ A paper delivered to Unit for Research in Education, Culture and Arts (URECA) Annual Conference, University of Warwick, May 2002
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Researching the Practice of Art as a Making’ a paper delivered at the School of Art and Design, University of Coventry, 26th January 2000
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Art, Beauty and the School’ a paper presented at the annual Warwick Institute of Education reunion of teachers, University of Warwick, 6th May 2000
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘Art an Indirect Pedagogy’ A paper delivered to Unit for Research in Education, Culture and Arts (URECA) Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 29th May 1999
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid, ‘I’m going to do what I normally do’ a performance video installation, EV+A exhibition of contemporary art curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (USA) Limerick, 22nd May – 17th July 1999
McAULIFFE, Diarmuid; CASTANO-BERNARD, Ricardo, ‘Citing Art’s Pedagogy’ a paper/performance exploring the relationship between art making and mathematical inquiry delivered to Unit for Research in Education, Culture and the Arts (URECA) University of Warwick, 20th May 1998.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The history and philosophy of art and design education
Art pedagogy and curriculum development
Impact of convergent media on art and design education
Gifted and talented.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Current research title ‘The Artist as Pedagogue: an inquiry into the Philosophy and Pedagogy of Art Making’. The research sets out to (i) investigate art making/learning discourse(s) in secondary and higher education and (ii) to examine how art makers articulate and understand the processes of their own making and learning. The primary purpose of the research is to review the manner in which we formulate pedagogy, and to identify discourses that are tied to practice rather than theory.
The Pedagogy of Victor Pasmore. collaborative project with Dr. Richard Yeomans, the Warwick Arts Centre and the National Arts Education Archive. The purpose of this project was to present the work of Pasmore’s students in conjunction with an exhibition of his art work organised by Tate Gallery, Liverpool. The conference ‘Changing the Process of Art Education’ was later organised around the theme of Pasmore’s pedagogy, Jan.- June 2000
MA Research: ‘The Redemption of Art’s Educational Discourse’. The thesis examined the condition of art in education and argued the case for a more discipline-led approach to art teaching, 1997-98, it was awarded a distinction by the University of Warwick.
OTHER RESEARCH RELATED ACTIVITY
European Affective Education Network [EAEN] conference organiser with Lisa McAuliffe, Creativity and Emotional Wellbeing EAEN International conference - School of Education, University of the West of Scotland July 5-8 2009
Get Drawn into Curriculum for Excellence – drawing across the curriculum. A CfE pilot project funded by the University of the West of Scotland examining the roll drawing plays in the development of literacy and numeracy, health and wellbeing in education. October 20-25 2008
Scotland Representative on Teacher Education Board (TEB) of the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD), 2007-2010
http://www.nsead.org/teb/index.aspx
Member of the Art and Design Directions in Information Communications Technology (addICT) Board of Council of the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) 2003-2006
http://www.nsead.org/ict/index.aspx
Member of the NSEAD Steering Group of a Government funded initiative to embed the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Art and Design Education across all Key Stages, 2004 - 2006
National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY) Summer School Strand Leader - University of Warwick, 2003, University of Exeter, 2004 and 2005
http://www.nagty.ac.uk/
Developed ‘The Art of Colour’ for The Art and Science of Colour Summer School for KS2/3 children, supported by the Comino Foundation at the University of Warwick.
Associate Member of The Eden Project Educational Research Team, Cornwall, 2004-2005. Here, I was involved in developing an instrument for evaluating drawings produced by primary aged children attending Eden’s ‘Don’t forget your leech socks’ education workshop.
Member of the Initial Teacher Education Research Group (phase II) in Art and Design Education, Institute of Education, London, 2000-02
Member of the Unit for Research in Education, Culture and the Arts, University of Warwick, 1999-2003
EXTERNAL EXAMINING
University of Edinburgh: Moray House School of Education, Expressive Arts, appointed 2004 -2010
University of Cumbria: St. Martin’s College, Fine Art and Art Education - appointed 2005-2009
The Leverhulme Trust: external assessor of Research Applications - 2008
AWARDS/GRANTS RECEIVED
Warwick Institute of Education Doctoral Studentship
Arts Council of Ireland Arts Educators Award (£6,000)
Arts Council of Ireland/Aer Lingus Travel Award (£600)
Irish representative at 1st International Painting Symposium, Lithuania
Arts Council of Ireland Grant (£400)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
1992/93, ‘Suitcase Project’ – School of Art and Design, Limerick Institute of Technology. Created a Public Art Project involving 50 Fine Art students from Limerick School of Art and Design. The nature of this project was to place at Shannon International Airport an installation depicting ones experience of travel. The installation formed part of the Western Artists exhibition.
1989, ‘Beginnings’, DAIL Arts Centre, Limerick. Devised and curated a city wide exhibition of artwork by students from secondary schools in the Limerick City area, supported by University of Limerick.
1989/90, Arts Forum, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick. Curated for Arts Club Limerick an exhibition consisting of work from both the North and South of Ireland.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2000
Emerging Art II, OPW (Office of Public Works), National (Ireland) touring exhibition of recent acquisitions to the Irish State Collection
1999
EV+A 99 REDUCED, (Selected by Jeanne Greenberg, USA), Limerick City Gallery of Art - I’m going to do what I normally do - Video Installation concerning a performance exploring the relationship between Art Making and Mathematical inquiry.
Peregrinations, University of Warwick, One-man
Summer in Lithuania, (Work from Irish Artists who participated in Lithuanian Symposia), Tig Fili Gallery Cork
FLUX, National touring exhibition, Dublin, Belfast, Kilkenny and London
1998
Rainy Season, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin
IONTAS, National small works exhibition (Selected by Ruairi O Cuiv, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Shelagh Hourahane, School of Art, University of Wales)
Royal Hibernian Academy Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
1997
Symposium, Siuocaikinio Meno Gallery Lithuania
1996
Asunder, AV Gallery, University of Limerick One-man
Inaugural Exhibition, Ormond Multi Media Centre Dublin
1994
Invited Artists, Riverrun Gallery Limerick
1992
Western Artists, Suitcase Installation, Shannon International Airport
All + 10 Sorts, Limerick City Gallery of Art
1990
Landscape Urban and Rural, University of Limerick
C.O.E (Claremorris Open Exhibition) (Selected by Patrick Murphy, Director of Irish Arts Council)
1988
Juxtapositions, Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Undercurrents, Bank of Ireland Thurles One-man
1986
EV+A Limerick City Gallery of Art (Selected by Nabuo Nakamura, Japan)
Invited Works Exeter Arts Festival
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
University of Warwick
National State Collection, Ireland (Office of Public Works)