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Tanya Power

Lecturer in Arts Education & Physical Education

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5926-1067

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Research interests

Visual art education; initial teacher education and contemporary art pedagogy and practice; eco-art pedagogy; sustainability and social justice; imagination, culture and social transformation; art as experience; Anthropocene and Symbiocene.

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Dr Tanya Power is a lecturer in Visual Art Education at Mary Immaculate College. Tanya holds a PhD from Burren College of Art, University of Galway and an MA from Belfast College of Art, University of Ulster. She completed the initial Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) training in the Netherlands. In 2015 Tanya participated in the inaugural Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities online programme with the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Tanya teaches on under and postgraduate programmes for initial teacher educators. She has been involved in professional development courses for teachers. From 2017 -2020 she co-ordinated the artist-in-residence programme in contemporary drawing in MIC as a part of the Arts Council of Ireland's residency programme for colleges of education. As part of her teaching and research, she regularly collaborates with schools, educators, cultural institutions, museums and contemporary cultural practitioners working in the fields of visual art education, eco-art pedagogy, socially engaged practices, sustainability and climate change.

Her professional teaching practice informs her artistic practice.

Education/Academic qualification

Master, MA in Art

… → 1996

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  2. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  3. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action

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