Dr Tríona Stokes
Biography
Tríona Stokes lectures across Curriculum, Methodology and Assessment modules in the area of Drama Education, and leads modules in Personal and Professional Skills for Teaching and Learning modules (PPSTL1 & 2). She is programme leader for the Bachelor of Education (Years 1 &2).
Tríona is chairperson of the departmental Development and Intercultural Education (GCE) committee and School Placement Engagement Officer: Arts in Schools. She is currently secretary to the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education Research Committee. Tríona has served in a variety of roles for the Association of Drama Education in Ireland (ADEI) since 2012, most recently as vice-chairperson from 2017-2020. She continues to serve as secretary to the ADEI Sub-committee for Curriculum Matters.
Tríona worked as both a primary teacher and drama practitioner in schools before joining the former Froebel College of Education as the lecturer in Drama in 2007.
She served as a member of the Bachelor of Education Review Committee and acted as rapporteur, culminating in the introduction of the revised Bachelor of Education programme in 2011-’12. She co-designed and has co-taught modules in the Personal and Professional Skills for Teaching and Learning since this time.
Tríona was coordinator of the inaugural Arts Council residency in Dance from 2013-2016, which marked the transition from College of Education to university department at Maynooth.
In 2016, Tríona graduated with an Education Doctorate from Queen’s University, Belfast. Her doctoral thesis investigated the perceptions of young children in school-based pretend play.
From 2008-2018, Tríona served as founding committee member on the Froebel HOPE Teacher Education Partnership, which contributes to the education work of the HOPE Foundation in supporting teachers in Kolkata in play facilitation and promoting Froebelian active learning methods.
Research Interests
Play and Pretend Play
Drama Education and arts facilitation
Children's Rights-Based Research and children's voices
Research Projects
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | Dr Triona Stokes and Dr Ruth Forrest (2018) 'Reviewing Peer-Placement in Initial Teacher Education: Cleamhnas, Pre-Nuptial Agreements, and the seven-year itch' In: Education Matters Yearbook 2017-2018. Castleisland, Co. Kerry : Education Matters/ Walsh Colour Print. [Link] | |
2017 | Susan Marron and Dr Triona Stokes (2017) 'Partnership as key: cultivating Facilitator-Artist Relationships in Teacher Education in Arts Council Dance Residencies' In: Education Matters Yearbook 2016-2017. Castleisland, Co. Kerry : Education Matters/ Walsh Colour Print. | |
2016 | Triona Stokes (2016) 'Dancing to Life: Reflections on the Experience of the Dance Artist-in-Residence at Maynooth University' In: Education Matters Yearbook 2015-2016. Castleisland, Co. Kerry : Education Matters/ Walsh Colour Print. | |
2007 | Triona Stokes (2007) 'Drama' In: Voice and Choice Curriculum Framework. Limerick : Mary Immaculate College and Limerick City Childcare. | |
2023 | McCormack. M., Silke, A., Kearns, A., O'Toole, L., Stafford, P. Stokes, T. Urban, M. (2023) 'Pedagogies of hope: exploring play opportunities for young children in an urban environment' In: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Friedrich Froebel. London : Bloomsbury. [DOI] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Stokes, T (2019) 'Using participatory methods with young children; reflections on emergent 'ethically important moments' in school-based research'. Irish Educational Studies, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Stokes, T (2019) 'Using participatory methods with young children; reflections on emergent 'ethically important moments' in school-based research'. Irish Educational Studies, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | Dr Triona Stokes (2018) 'Ameliorating free-flow play for young children through increased access to school play spaces indoors and out: Reflections on an Irish context' Textbook of Maritime Medicine (2nd Ed.), 6 (2) :20-24. [Link] [Full-Text] |
Conference Publication
Conference Contribution
Published Report
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Stokes, Triona (2023) An examination of the means by which Monkeyshine Theatre artists meet and support children to partner with artists using reciprocal and dialogic means. Arts Council, . [Link] | |
2022 | Dr Triona Stokes (2022) Discussion Paper on Facilitating the Arts in Early Learning and Care: Towards Best Practice Principles. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY), . [Link] |
Article
Year | Publication | |
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2013 | Triona Stokes (2013) 'Now, who's an ugly duckling?': Using Traditional Stories to Examine Drama in Education as a Medium to Explore Diversity and Difference in the Irish Primary Classroom. [Article] [Link] |
Electronic Publication
Video recording / TV
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | Dr Triona Stokes; Lisa Cahill (2016) Reflecting on a University-based Dance Residency in Kildare. Kildare: [Video recording / TV] [Link] |
Professional Associations
Committees
Education
Other Activities
Outreach Activities
Organisation | Type | Description | |
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St Mary's BNS Maynooth Board of Management | Civic Society | Nominated as a community representative to St. Mary's BNS Maynooth Board of Management [Link] | |
Culture Night Kildare | Civic Society | 2014-2019 organiser of annual public workshop or lecture facilitated by the Arts Council Artist-in-Residence for Culture Night Kildare. [Link] | |
Froebel HOPE Teacher Education Partnership | Civic Society | A founding member of the three-person committee who established over ten years a professional teaching partnership with the HOPE Foundation, assisting with their Education programmes to support the work of Indian teachers in state schools and HOPE-run education centres through a sustained programme of Continuing Professional Development and a volunteer sending programme for graduating teachers from Maynooth to co-teach in Kolkata annually for five weeks. |
Teaching Interests
Tríona is coordinator of Personal and Professional Skills for Teaching and Learning across Years 1-3 of the Bachelor of Education modules, EDF133, EDF234 and EDF337. Student-teacher personal and professional development is the focus of the Bachelor of Education modules on which Tríona teaches, Personal and Professional Skills for Teaching and Learning 1 and 2. The content includes communication and presentation skills, an introduction to the principles of Froebel, teaching values, academic writing and referencing skills and the use of generative AI in assessment. Each aspect is introduced through a mixture of workshops, lectures and seminar-style discussion groups.
Tríona has designed and taught a number of curriculum elective modules in arts education within the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education. These include Dance Education, Integrating Dance and Drama and Storytelling Theatre for the Classroom.