Programme 295, Michael Flannery on Visual Arts Education 1 (7-6-17)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Michael Flannery from the Marino Institute of Education about the teaching of visual arts. We spoke to mark the launch of the new Master's in Education Studies course in the Visual Arts offered by the Institute.

Among the topics we covered in this part of the interview were the following:

• How he became interested in the visual arts
• Benefits for children in learning visual arts
• Stages in producing visual art
• Starting points for visual art lessons
• Introducing children to genres or kinds of art that are often neglected
• Stages of development in learning art
• Using art to mark significant events in the school year
• Assessment in the visual arts