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Kevin Gormley

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T:Ext. 9009

E:Kevin.Gormley@dcu.ie

F136

T:Ext. 9009

E:Kevin.Gormley@dcu.ie


F136
School of Arts Education and Movement

T:018842202

E:Kevin.Gormley@dcu.ie
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Kevin Gormley is a lecturer in Music Education at the School of Arts Education and Movement, Institute of Education, Dublin City University. Since graduating from St Patrick's College, DCU, he completed Masters degrees in Education (UCD) and Music (Maynooth University). Kevin's doctoral study, undertaken at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, was an analysis of how the concept of creativity is discursively constructed in education policy and practice. Kevin has taught at all primary class levels both in Ireland and in Australia, has directed school choirs and has worked as a specialist music teacher. He holds an Associates Diploma from the Royal Irish Academy of Music. 

At DCU, Kevin coordinates and teaches into core modules in music education for undergraduate and postgraduate students. He also supervises final year projects and is involved in student reflection and enquiry tutorials. Kevin works with students on school placement and is a doctoral studies panel member.

Kevin welcomes enquiry into doctoral study, firstly in the areas of creativity and policy analysis, and more broadly, in regards to the following teaching and research interests: the work of Michel Foucault, neoliberalism, music education, arts education and music technology.

Book

Year Publication
2023 Kevin Gormley (2023) Perspectives on the place of creativity in education, policy and practice: Limitations and open spaces. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003222781

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 Kevin Gormley; Naoko Mochizuki (2023) 'Power effects, normalising advice and evolving knowledge of doctoral writing'. Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, . https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.989
2020 Gormley, Kevin (2020) 'Foucault’s ethical self-formation and David’s articulation of a creative self'. Educational Philosophy and Theory, .
2019 Gormley, Kevin (2019) 'Disciplining Creativity: Tensions between discourses of 'creative environments' and discourses of surveillance/normalisation in a school institution'. DISCOURSE: STUDIES IN THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EDUCATION, .
2018 Gormley, Kevin (2018) 'Neoliberalism and the Discursive Construction of ‘Creativity’'. Critical Studies in Education, :1-16.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2021 Kevin Gormley (2021) 'An Account of Bifurcated Senses and Spaces in the Pursuit of Early-Career Academic Publications' In: Scholarly Publication Trajectories of Early-career Scholars. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]

Online Article

Year Publication
2020 Gormley, Kevin (2020) Can we test our children's creative thinking?. ELEA [Link]

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2023 Kevin Gormley (2023) American Educational Research Association Agamben's (im)potentiality and a reconsideration of creative potential in education policy Chicago, .
2023 Naoko Mochizuki; Kevin Gormley (2023) Joint AELFE LSPPC Conference A duoethnography of normalising advice and exploration of the thesis genre Zaragoza, .
2019 Gormley, Kevin (2019) British Education Research Association Culture policy and the construction of truth about creativity in education University of Manchester, UK, 10/09/2019-12/09/2019.
2019 Gormley, Kevin (2019) 2nd Annual Creativity Conference A call for greater alignment between scientific/empirical perspectives and critical policy perspectives to better understand the place of creativity in schools Southern Oregon University, USA, 11/07/2019-14/07/2019.
2018 Gormley, Kevin (2018) Australian Association for Research in Education 2019 Foregrounding the individual's ethical self-formation for a broader portrayal of creativity knowledge Sydney, 02/12/2018-06/12/2018.
2015 Kevin Gormley (2015) International Academic Forum on Education Creativity and Arts Education Brighton, UK, 13/07/2015-17/07/2015.
2015 Kevin Gormley (2015) Australian Association for Research Education Creativity, Neoliberalism and Discursive Practices Fremantle, Western Australia, 28/11/2015-03/12/2015.
2015 Gormley, Kevin (2015) NSW Student IER Research Conference 2015 Creativity and Neoliberalism Australian Catholic University, Sydney, 07/11/2015-.
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Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/01/2013 University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA) University of New South Wales, Sydney

Research Interests

creativity, music education, arts education, music technology, singing and choir, teacher education, education policy analysis, neoliberalism, the work of Michel Foucault

Teaching Interests

creativity, music education, arts education, music technology, singing and choir, teacher education, education policy analysis, neoliberalism, the work of Michel Foucault