International Play & Voice Conference - 5th October 2019 @ MIC
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Registration €70 - Student €55
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9am-10am
Registration / Tea & Coffee / Exhibition
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Conference Opening 10am-10.15am
10.15-11.15am
Prof. Emer Ring (Dean of Early Childhood and Teacher Education, Mary Immaculate College)
Key Note 1 Prof. Laura Lundy (Queens University Belfast)
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Time 11.30am-12.30pm
Lime Tree Theatre
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Session 2: Exploring the Possibilities of Play Beyond the Early Primary Classroom
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While much of the research on play and learning focuses on early childhood and early primary education, an emerging body of research now affirms the benefits of continuing to use playful pedagogical approaches, to maximise student motivation, engagement and learning achievement, across primary school classes. This session will explore innovative approaches to integrating play with the curriculum beyond the early primary classroom.
Lime Tree Theatre
2.1 - A Play-based Intervention in First Class
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is 30 years old. While the right to play remains one of the most neglected rights in the UNCRC, the right to participate in decision-making is one of the most commonly cited, yet most misunderstood. This key note explores the ways in which these important human rights, both bespoke for children, are indivisible, inter-related and inter-dependent, and suggests that there can be no right to play without participation and that the right to participation is enhanced through play.
Susan-Kate Brosnan, Dr Lisha O’Sullivan and Prof. Emer Ring (Mary Immaculate College)
2.2 - Play Learning and Narrative Skills (PlaNs): Building Children’s Writing Skills through Play Dr David Whitebread (Formerly University of Cambridge)
CHAIR: Dr Maurice Harmon (Mary Immaculate College)
CHAIR: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment 11.15-11.30am
Coffee to Go
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11.30am-12.30pm
Session 1: The Power of Child Voice in the Primary Classroom
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7 Morning Parallel Sessions
In this session, an opportunity is provided to explore the transformative impact of children voice in teaching and learning for the educational experience in the classroom, a particular emphasis will be placed on the use of Picturebooks to develop critical thinking. Research focused on exploring the facilitators and barriers to including children’s voices in an Irish school context is also presented.
1.1 - The Transformative Power of Child Voice for Learning and Teaching in Our Classrooms
11.30am-12.30pm
Session 3: Innovative ways of Harnessing Children’s Voice in the Research Process Prof Lundy’s rights-based model of child participation focuses on ensuring all children’s views are valued and respected. Children express their views in a variety of ways, this session will explore creative ways to harness child voice in research across early years, primary and post-primary educational settings.
3.1 - Child Voice in Research in the Early Years Alicja McCloskey (Mary Immaculate College)
Sorcha Turner and Prof Emer Ring (Mary Immaculate College)
3.2 - Telling my Story Through Pictures: Harnessing Children’s Voice in the Primary and Post-Primary Classroom
1.2 - Using Picturebooks to Develop Childen’s Critical Voice
Dr Maurice Harmon (Mary Immaculate College)
Mary Roche (Mary Immaculate College) CHAIR: Prof. Laura Lundy (Queens University Belfast)
CHAIR: National Childhood Network
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Time 11.30am-12.30pm
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Session 4: Promoting Play and Voice in Education
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11.30am-12.30pm
Session 6: The Role of Play in Supporting All Children
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On this the 30th anniversary of The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRE), this session will celebrate all children’s rights to develop, learn and thrive through play; while provide an opportunity to consider how those working with children with diverse needs and abilities can create spaces where all children’s playfulness is nurtured.
In this session, the importance of harnessing children’s voice in educational settings is highlighted and explored. The barriers to including all children’s voices are interrogated and the competing discourses considered. The potential of a playful approach to pedagogy for students at post-primary level is investigated and team-teaching strategies identified.
4.1 - Voice as a Locus of Ethical Practice
6.1 - Creating Playful Spaces
Prof. Jim Deegan (Mary Immaculate College)
Marie Corbett (Early Childhood Ireland)
4.2 - Team Teaching and Humour: A Playful Approach to Pedagogy at Post-Primary
6.2 - Can I Play Too? The Opportunities and Challenges for Social Inclusion for Pre-schoolers with Autism on the Playground
Dr Finn Ó Murchú (Mary Immaculate College)
Maeve Coughlan (Occupational Therapist, Cope Foundation)
CHAIR: Sharon Skehill (Leadership for INClusion in the Early Years (LINC) Programme)
CHAIR: AsIAm
11.30am-12.30pm 11.30am-12.30pm
Session 5: Including Students’ Voices in the Teaching and Inspection Processes Consulting with students about their learning through placing a value on student voice presents an opportunity to increase students’ motivation; engagement and achievement, while simultaneously modelling the principles of democracy in our classrooms. In creating participatory classroom environments where agency is prioritised, students’ and teachers’ satisfaction with the learning and teaching process is substantially enhanced. In this session the power of voice for our children is considered and the potential impact of voice in the evaluation process from early years to post-primary level is articulated.
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Session 7: Workshop Exploring Student Voice and Playful Pedagogy in Post-Primary Contexts 7.1 - Promoting Student Voice through Communities of Practice in Post-Primary Schools Dr Domnall Fleming (University College Cork) A Cork-based network of Voluntary Secondary Schools has been developing student voice work in schools and classrooms. Teachers from four of the network schools will present and discuss their student voice work: its enactment, motivations, achievements, and challenges. This student voice network is supported by UCC School of Education and Cork Education Support Centre (CESC).
5.1 - The Power of Voice for Our Classrooms Tomás Ó Ruairc and Jack Kennedy (Teaching Council)
5.2 - Harnessing Voice in the Evaluation Process from Early Years to Post-Primary Level Yvonne Keating (Inspectorate - Department of Education and Skills) CHAIR: Irish National Teachers’ Organisation
Co-presenters: Kelly McEntee (St Francis College, Rochestown, Co Cork) Miriam Ní Fhearghaíl (Coláiste an Phiarsaigh, Glanmire, Co Cork) Dearbhaile O’Sullivan (Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown, Co Cork) Julie Hanlon (Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown, Co Cork)
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Geraldine Redouty (Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown, Co Cork)
1.30-2.30pm
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Edmund Hussey (Christian Brothers College, Cork)
Session 1: Exploring the Adolescent Voice in Education
7 Afternoon Parallel Sessions
Rachael Mooney (Christian Brothers College, Cork)
CHAIR: Dr Domhnall Fleming (University College Cork)
According to Michael Fielding one of the key issue is education is whose voice can be heard in the acoustic of the school, and by whom. Moreover, how what is said gets heard depends not only on who says it, but also on style and language. These papers will explore the place of the learner’s voice and how students’ retrospective experience of mathematics at second level as conveyed through their mathematics life stories.
1.1 - Whose Voices, Who’s Listening in the Learner Voice Space 12.30-1.30pm
Lunch
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Dr Paula Flynn (Dublin City University)
1.2 - Student Voice in Post-Primary Classroom: Lessons for the Teaching of Mathematics Dr Maria D. Ryan (Mary Immaculate College)
CHAIR: Dr Domhnall Fleming (University College Cork)
1.30-2.30pm
Session 2: Locating Play in Practice In the context of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment’s (NCCA) current redevelopment of the primary school curriculum, this session will explore various theoretical perspectives on play and their implications in a redeveloped Primay School Curriculum.
2.1 - Theoretical Perspectives on the Role of Play in a Redeveloped Primary School Curriculum Marie Ryan and Patrick Burke (Mary Immaculate College)
2.2 - Including play in a redeveloped Primary School Curriculum Claire Reidy (National Council for Curriculum and Assessment)
CHAIR: Dr Lisha O’Sullivan (Mary Immaculate College)
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1.30-2.30pm
Session 3: Promoting Play and Child Voice in the Primary Curriculum
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1.30-2.30pm
Session 5: Listening to the Voices of all Children
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In this session the role of listening and responding to the voices of autistic children is considered. Current research on how students learn best points to the centrality of creating motivating contexts, where students are engaged as active participants in their own learning; encouraged to become autonomous, innovative and creative thinkers and are confident in their abilities This research applies equally to autistic children and the presentations in this session illustrate the transformative impact of listening for the lives of autistic children and their families.
2019 celebrates the twenty years since the introduction of the current Primary School Curriculum. The curriculum offers many opportunity to access the views of children in creative ways, this session will explore innovate and playful ways of promoting the child’s voice, in the curricular areas of Religious Education and Science.
3.1 - Godly Play, a Growing Practice in Religious Education Dr Cora O’Farrell (Dublin City University)
5.1 - Why Listening Matters Adam Harris (AsIAm)
3.2 - Toying around with STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art and Mathematics) Education: Fostering Creativity and Thinkering Skills through Exploration and Play
5.2 - How Listening Changed Our Lives Fiona Ferris (AsIAm) and Katelyn Ferris
Dr Maeve Liston (Mary Immaculate College)
CHAIR: Prof. Emer Ring (Mary Immaculate College) CHAIR: National Parents’ Council
1.30-2.30pm
Session 4: Play and Learning Outdoors in Preschool, Primary and Post-Primary School In a climate where children receive fewer opportunities to experience the outdoors, it is imperative that early years and primary education settings encourage outdoor learning. In this session our presenters will share their experience and expertise of brining play and learning outside the physical walls of the classroom.
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1.30-2.30pm
Session 6: Creating Playful Environments for Children to be Heard in Times of Difficulty Children at times find themselves in a postion where they are sick and away from their familiar surroundings or coping with grief through death, separation or divorce. In these situations when given space and time, children can express their feelings through many interventions. This expression is rarely with words, but more frequently through paint, music, play, clay, games and story books.
4.1 - How do Children Play and How Can you Document and Plan for it in an Outdoor Preschool?
6.1 - The Art of Listening to Children who have experienced loss through Death, Separation and Divorce
Steve Goode (Northside Family Resource Centre, Limerick)
Sr Helen Culhane and Theresa Kavanagh (Children’s Grief Centre, Limerick)
4.2 - What do children learn outdoors? The Use of Outdoor Spaces in Steiner Education
6.2 - Promoting Play for Children in Hospital
Niamh Ruiseal (Raheen Wood Steiner National School) CHAIR: Helen Ryan Area Based Childhood (ABC) Start Right, Limerick
Elizabeth Morrin and Denise Monahan (Children in Hospital Ireland) CHAIR: Dr Maurice Harmon (Mary Immaculate College)
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1.30-2.30pm
Session 7: Learning through Play
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Children today, experience less opportunities to play across home and educational settings. This session will explore the power of play to support continuity in children’s learning throughout the education continuum. This session will also consider the importance of out-of-school play for overall wellbeing and achievement and for fostering continuity between home and school learning experiences.
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3.30-3.45pm
Dreams: Corpus Christi Children’s Choir, Corpus Christi Primary School, Moyross.
Lime Tree Theatre
3.45-4.00pm
Conference Close
Lime Tree Theatre & An tSlí
Prof. Niamh Hourigan (Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Mary Immaculate College)
7.1 - Time to Play: Children’s and Parents’ Experiences of School-Home Balance Dr Maja Haals Brosnan (Marino Institute of Education)
7.2 - Aistear: Supporting Continuity Through Play for Young Children All participants are cordially invited to join us for refreshments and canapés celebrating CERAMIC’s 5th Birthday. (Centre for Early Childhood Research at Mary Immaculate College)
Dr Jacqueline Fallon (National Council for Curriculum and Assessment)
CHAIR: Teaching Council
2.30pm
Coffee to Go
An tSlí
2.30-3.30pm
Key Note 2: Supporting Children to become Powerful and Creative Learners: the Role of Play
Lime Tree Theatre
Dr David Whitebread (Formerly of University of Cambridge)
Many early childhood educators believe that children learn most effectively through play. However, until quite recently the scientific evidence was not there to support this view. This talk reviews recent studies which have begun to provide this evidence, and proposes a new model of the mechanisms through which playful activities support children’s growth as powerful and creative learners. Steering Committee: Mary Immaculate College: Dr Maurice Harmon (Chair of Organising Committee), Sheila O’Callaghan (Director of
CHAIR: Early Childhood Ireland
Conference Administration and Organisation), Dr Lisha O’Sullivan (Chair of Conference Steering Committee), Prof. Emer Ring and Prof. Eugene Wall; Queen’s University Belfast: Prof. Laura Lundy; University College Cork: Dr Domnall Fleming.
International Play & Voice Conference - 5th October 2019 @ MIC