IRMSS 2016 CONFERENCE P R O G R A M M E

IRMSS 2016 CONFERENCE

PROGRAMME
FRIDAY, 27 May 2016
th

LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
Lobby
4.00 pm 4.30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSION
1 of 5
4.30 pm 5.30
pm
Colm Kelleher
Galway Institute of
Technology
Meaningfulness
Matters: Realising the
Potential of Theory
Enhanced Assessment

Aoife Prendergast
Dorothy Morrissey
Institute of Technology, Mary Immaculate College
Blanchardstown, Dublin
Exploring Rigour in
Praxis Learning:
Reviewing Experiential
Learning in Practice
Education
WELCOME RECEPTION
Lobby
5.30 pm 6.15
pm
CONFERENCE WELCOME
6.15 pm 6.45
pm

PROFESSOR TERESA ODOHERTY

Dean of Education,
Mary Immaculate
College

Risk as Praxis

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KEYNOTE
PRESENTATION
6.45 pm 8.00 pm
Something at Stake: Encountering Troublesome Knowledge
in an Uncertain World
PROFESSOR RAY
LAND
Professor of Higher Education, Durham
University
&
Director of Durham Universitys Centre for Academic
Practice
CHAIR: PROFESSOR JIM DEEGAN
Director, IRMSS
&

Saturday, 28th May

2016
KEYNOTE
PRESENTATION
9.00 am 10.00 am
Reflections on Assessment Research and a Call to Action
PROFESSOR MICHAEL OLEARY
Prometric Chair in Assessment, Dublin City University
&
Director, Postgraduate Studies in Education, St.
Patricks College
CONCURRENT SESSION2 of 5
10.00 am 11.00 pm

Margaret Graham
University of Limerick
Learning through
Reflexive Narrative:
Stepping Towards an
Uncertain Future

Denise Burns
Centre for Evaluation,
Quality & Inspection,
Dublin City University
A Praxis of Document
Analysis as a Research
Method

Miriam
Hamilton
Mary Immaculate College
How Does Curricular
Reform Re-Form
Praxis?: Problematising
Junior Cycle Science
Reform in Ireland

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BREAK
11.00 am 11.30 am
Lobby

CONCURRENT SESSION
3 of 5 11.30 am
12.30 pm
Ronli Rotem
Myers-JDC-Brookdale
Institute, Israel
Discussing Cultural
Constructs and
Practices in
Preschool: CrossCultural Adaption of
a Preschool
Evaluation Tool

Mags Liddy
University of Limerick
Praxis Arising from
Overseas
Volunteering: The
Translation Dynamic
of Experience into
Professional Work

Conchr Brolchin
Mary Immaculate
College
Minority Language
Immersion in Action:
Case-Study Evidence
from Two Infant
Classrooms in
Irelands Gaeltacht
areas

THREE MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION, MARY IMMACULATE COLLEGE

12.30 PM 1.00 PM
SESSION FACILITATOR
PROF. JIM DEEGAN

LUNCH
1.00 pm 2.00 pm

CONCURRENT SESSION
4 of 5
2.00 pm 3.00 pm
Marcus Free
Garry Marnane Michael Finneran Timothy Murphy
Mary Immaculate
University of
Irish World
& Ailbhe Kenny
College
Limerick
Academy of Music Mary Immaculate
& Dance,
College
Maximising PreUniversity of
Service
Researching
Limerick
Memory Work
Educators
Professional Praxis
and the
Professional
in Arts Education
The
Potential
of
Experience of
Capabilities
within Times of
Praxis as an
Growing Up with
Responsive
to
Programme and
Evidence Base
Popular Media
Policy
Policy Change
in Qualitative
Development
Arts Research
Imperatives:
Exploring the
Potential of a

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BREAK
Lobby
3.00 pm 3.30
pm
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
3.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Assessing Praxis with Invalid Metrics: The Inappropriate Use of
Standardized Achievement Tests to Evaluate Teachers and Schools
PROFESSOR DAVID C. BERLINER
Professor Emeritus of Education, Arizona State University

CONFERENCE BBQ
6 pm 8 pm
STRAND HOTEL
LIMERICK

SUNDAY, 29th May 2016

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
9.30 am -10.30
am
and the Word was made Flesh: The Somatic Turn in
Contemporary Praxis and Research
DR HELEN PHELAN
Director, PhD in Arts Practice,
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick

BREAK
10.30 am 11.00 am
Lobby

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CONCURRENT SESSION
5 of 5
11.00 am 12.00 pm
Silke Schmidt
Justus-LiebigUniversitt
Gieen

Teresa Shiels
University of
Limerick

Pragmatic
Reading: Learning
Praxis by Reading
Autobiography
Peter Druckers
Adventures of a
Bystander

The Lived
Experience for a
Student with
Traumatic Brain
Injury in ThirdLevel Education

Kate Dwyer
Paul McLaughlin
Mary Immaculate
University of
College
Limerick
A Study on
the Impact of
a Merger on
the Structure
and
Processes of
an Irish
Higher
Educational
Institute

Bullshit and
Educational
Research

THREE MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION, GWYNEDD MERCY

UNIVERSITY
12.00 pm 12.30 pm
SESSION FACILITATOR
DR. RAYMOND BANDLOW
Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies in Educational
Leadership
Gwynedd Mercy University, Gwynedd Valley, PA - USA
LUNCH
12.30 pm 2.00 pm

Keynote Presentation
2.00 pm 3.00 pm
Belonging and Believing:
The Experience of Jewish
and Muslim School
Communities in the UK
PROFESSOR MARIE
PARKER JENKINS
Professor of Education,
Department of Education and
CONFERENCE
CLOSING
3.00 pm 3.15