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Educational Meitheal on Sherkin Island Daniel Reilly Chairperson, Sherkin Island Development Society It has been almost ten years since the first seeds of this programme were planted here on Sherkin island, and now after a very long growing season, it is harvest time. It gives me great pleasure on behalf of Sherkin Island Development Society, and the entire Island community to congratulate our first seven students to be conferred with a BA honours degree in Visual Art. This may be very rare for a rural community but it is definitely a first for an offshore island. This programme is of huge benefit both economically and socially for the Island. As the programme is run from September to June, which is off peak to our traditional tourism period, it gives our Island businesses - ferry services, hotels, pubs etc a vital boost at a time which would normally be very quiet. The programme also provides much needed employment on the Island. The social aspect, however, is even more important as the comings and goings of our students, their families and friends, together with the lecturers brighten up what would be otherwise dull winters. The numerous social gatherings associated with the programme and attended by the students and locals alike have been great fun. Many of our students after all this time have been reluctant to leave. I suppose you would get a little institutionalised after almost ten years. I want to thank our partners, Dublin Institute of Technology and West Cork Arts Centre, for their great dedication in ensuring the BA in Fine Art is now on a very sound footing and we look forward to many more years of collaboration. I would also like to thank Majella O’Neill Collins, Programme Facilitator (SIDS), for her vision and dedication in helping to develop and implement this programme. Bernadette Burns, Programme Co-ordinator, Margaret O’Reilly, Administrator and Marc Holden, IT Support, are also invaluable to the programme and I also thank them. Finally I want to express my gratitude to the people of Sherkin Island who have made our students and lecturers feel very much at home.
Where We Now Stand – an Educational Context Professor Brian Norton President, Dublin Institute of Technology We at the Dublin Institute of Technology are delighted to see our first group of graduates come through the BA in Visual Art programme in 2009. This four year modular honours degree programme emerged from the School of Art, Design and Printing’s experience of the pilot Art and Culture Programme (2000 – 2003). Developed by DIT and Sherkin Island Development Society (SIDS) the pilot highlighted a willingness on behalf of all those concerned community, school and participants alike to engage in a learning process which saw the redrawing of traditional educational boundaries and the desire to develop an accredited Degree structure. Building on the key elements of the Pilot Art and Culture Programme, the BA in Visual Art is distinguished by its emphasis of forging a learning environment in which the living patterns and knowledge base of a community are respected and included in the structure of the learning environment. The BA in Visual Art’s structure seeks, through its foundation in collaboration and through the strategic use of both live and virtual contact, to support and maintain the emergence of a worthwhile learning community in the context of lifelong learning. One of the most innovative aspects of this programme is its delivery designed specifically for a local community combining live classes, face to face tutorials, group work and seminars, learning portfolios, pre-recorded lectures, virtual classroom technology and online research resources. In all of these methods there is a significant emphasis upon individual reflection, critical engagement and collaborative learning. Delivery of the programme is centred around intensive group learning blocks on Sherkin Island. Participants meet and work together for concentrated sessions of workshops, studio practice and critical analysis. Each session begins and ends with discussion and a critiquing of each individual’s work. Through this process the participant becomes engaged in a learning process that is reflective in nature and which implicitly involves the participant in the construction of their learning and that of their peers.
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