Eileen Keane Niland

Biography

Eileen 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. Eileen’s current studio practice focuses on examination of spatial, temporal and social dimensions of place. Eileen is a Lecturer in Education (Visual Arts) at Marino Institute of Education. She works across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and is the course leader for the Masters in Education Studies (Visual Arts).