THIRD ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
IN HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION
Hosted by Mater Dei Institute of Education
&
St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra
12 April 2013 at the Mater Dei Institute of Education
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
MATER DEI INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
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09.00-11-00 Session/Seisiún I
Panel/Painéal A
English Literature and the Arts
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Chair: Dr Michael Hinds (Head of English, Mater Dei Institute)
Conor Connolly (MDI)
‘A Scientific Approach to the Arts’
Cormac Lambe (SPD)
‘James Craven’s Literary Response to the Northern Ireland Conflict”
Ailbhe Honohan (MDI)
‘Identifying Comedy of Correction and Forgiveness in Paradise Lost’
Mary Honan (MDI)
Panel/Painéal B
‘Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS: A Thematic Analysis’
Structural Questions: Charities, Pastoral Practices
and Pilgrimage
C2
Chair: Dr Bernadette Flanagan (Director of Research, All Hallows College)
Martin Cahill (AHC)
‘The Construction of a Core-adaptive Hybrid Contingency Model of
Governance for Charities in Ireland’
Gertrude Gill (AHC)
‘How Benedictine Hospitality Can Contribute to the Development of
a More Inclusive Model of Pastoral Practice in Post-modern Ireland’
Anna-Marie O’Doherty (AHC)
‘Integrating my Learning to Develop Pilgrimage to Holy Wells
Associated with St Brecán Through Action Research’
Patrick McCormack (SPD)
‘Building on Solid Foundations? - A Consideration of What
Constitutes Appropriate Qualifications for Teachers of Children with
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Their Impact on Teacher
Sense of Confidence and Effectiveness in the Classroom’
11.00 WELCOME FROM DR ANDREW MCGRADY & OFFICIAL
OPENING/OSCAILT OIFIGIÚIL
Dr Lisa Looney, Dean of Graduate Studies, DCU
11.10-11.30 Break/Sos
C1
College Canteen
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11.30-13.00 Session/Seisiún II
Panel/ Painéal A
Issues in Education, Religious Education and
Ethics
C1
Chair: Dr Gareth Byrne (Head of the Irish Centre for Religious Education, Mater Dei Institute)
Michael Foley (MDI)
‘Integral Human Development as the Overarching Aim of Catholic
Education’
John Tilson, (MDI)
‘The Ethics of Influence’
Áine Moran (MDI)
‘The Role of Chaplaincy in Irish Schools Today’
Jim Butler (AHC)
‘Conviction or Convention? An Insight Into the Rationale of Catholic
Parents in Presenting Their Children for Baptism and the Other
Sacraments of Christian Initiation in Early 21st Century Ireland’
Panel/Painéal B
Health and Spiritual Wellbeing
Boardroom
Chair: Professor Steven Knowlton (DCU)
Siobhán McDermott (School of
Nursing and Human Sciences,
DCU)
‘Emerging Adults’ Experience of Living with Childhood Chronic
Kenneth W. Hannaway (AHC)
‘Investigating the Contribution of Spiritual Contemplative Practices in
Illness’
suicide-prevention Strategies: National and International Perspectives’
Mary Stefanazzi (MDI)
‘An Examination of the Relationship between Soul and Psyche in
Human Flourishing’
Catherine Gibson (AHC)
‘Reconciling Religion and Psychotherapy: A Phenomenological
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Account of Clergy who Left Ministry to join Healing Professions’
Panel/Painéal C
Access/Engagement/Enrichment: Aspects of
Education
C2
Chair: Dr Michael O’Leary, Director of Postgraduate Studies in Education, St Patrick’s College,
Drumcondra
Tish Balfe (SPD)
‘Listen With Your Eyes and You Will Hear Me Communicate:
Exploring the Impact on the Social Communication Behaviours of
Five Children with ASD and their Classroom Staff (Teachers and
SNAs) Following the Staff’s Participation in a Communication
Promoting Professional Learning Community’
Aisling Twohill (SPD)
‘The role of the Zone of Proximal Development in the Design of a
Clinical Interview’
Elizabeth Breslin (School of
Educational Studies, DCU)
Benjamin Mallon (SPD)
‘Attitudes to Higher Education of Second-level Students After
Participation in a University Academic Enrichment Programme’
‘Gauging the Responsibility for Conflict and Peace: Cross-border
Education Projects on the Island of Ireland’
13.00‐13.55 Lunch/Lón
College Canteen
14.00‐14.40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS / EOCHAIRCHAINT
Dr Patrick Geoghegan
C1
‘Research in the Humanities:
Challenge and Opportunity, an Historian’s View’
Dr Geoghegan is Associate Professor of History and Dean of Undergraduate
Studies at Trinity College, Dublin
Chair: (Professor James Kelly, Saint Patrick’s College, Drumcondra)
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14.45-16.45 Session/Seisiún III
14.45-15.30 Panel/ Painéal A
Léann an Gaeilge & an Gaeloideachas
C1
Chair: Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil, Roinn na Gaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, Droim Conrach
Katie Ní Loingsigh
(Fiontar, DCU)
Conchúr Ó Brolcháin (SPD)
‘Tiomsú agus Rangú Cnuasach Nathanna as Saothar an Athar Peadar
Ua Laoghaire i mBunachar Sonraí’
‘Staidéar ar an Luath-thumoideachas Iomlán agus an tOideachas tríd
an Teanga Dhúchais sa Ghaeltacht’
14.45-16.00 Panel/Painéal B
Language, Learning and Enterprise Education
C2
Chair: Dr Fionnuala Waldron (Head of Department and Dean of Education, St Patrick’s College,
Drumcondra)
Laoise Ní Thuairisg (SPD)
‘Conducting Research in Post-Primary Schools: Negotiating Access
and Cooperation’
Reglindis De Ridder (SALIS,
DCU)
‘Arme Rijke Taal’ [Poor Rich Language]: Minority Language Planning
Anthony (Bobby) Pringle
(Fiontar, DCU)
‘The Case for Enterprise Education: Tapping into the Potential of
Ciarán Ó Mathúna
‘An examination of the transformative learning experiences, in the
self-evaluation of participants in the Adult Learning BA (All Hallows
College, Dublin) on completion of their first year of studies’
15.30-16.10
through Subtitles? A Case Study of Flemish Public Broadcasting
Student Creativity’
DR EUCHARIA MEEHAN (DIRECTOR, IRISH
RESEARCH COUNCIL & HEAD OF RESEARCH,
HEA)
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CHAIR: Dr Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (Dean of Research & Humanities, Saint
Patrick’s College, Drumcondra)
16.10-16.30 Break/Sos
Canteen
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16.35-18.30 Session/Seisiún IV
Panel/Painéal A
Twentieth-Century Irish Culture and Society
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Chair: Dr Leeann Lane (Head of Irish Studies and Head of Humanities, Mater Dei Institute)
Mark Reynolds (MDI)
Gary Carville (MDI)
‘The GAA and the 1980 Hunger Strike’
‘How was the Reception of Vatican II Affected by the Ecclesial,
Social and Cultural Outlooks of the Irish Per-conciliar Church?’
Barra Ó Seaghdha (SALIS,
DCU)
‘Changes and Continuities: 1906 to the 1960s’
Yvonne Igoe (School of Applied
Languages and Intercultural
Studies / School of
Communications, DCU)
‘A “backward look” with One Eye on the Future? The Construction
Panel/Painéal B
Migration and the Questions of Integration
and Representation of the Gaeltacht on RTÉ Television’
C2
Chair: Dr Ger Scanlon, School of Education Studies (DCU)
Des Delaney (School of Law and
Government, DCU)
‘Perceptions of Recognition - The Experience of Sunni Muslims in
Laura Dooley (School of Applied
Languages and Intercultural
Studies, DCU)
‘“I don’t think it needs to be discussed, it’s not a big deal, like is it a
Dublin’
problem?”: Investigating Transition Year Students’ Attitudes
Towards Immigrants and Intercultural Education in Dublin Schools’
Rebecca Darcy (SPD)
‘The Migrant and the City: Fictional Representations of Public,
Private, and Imagined Migrant Experience in London’
Krizan Vekic (MDI)
‘To Highlight the Changes which Occurred in Schools which Went
from having Mono-ethnic Student Populations to Multi-ethnic
Student Populations’
18.30 Closing Reception
Boardroom
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