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Direct linkHarris, Clodagh; Murphy, Philip – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2012
This paper assesses the relationship between community education and internal political efficacy. In particular it examines the association between voter/civic programmes run in advance of the 2009 local elections in Ireland and internal political efficacy amongst the asylum seeking community in Cork. A survey is used to test this relationship.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Education, Citizen Participation, Empowerment
Breen, Majella – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2012
The old adage "no news is good news" is particularly true of the portrayal of Travellers in the media in general. The quality of otherness is relevant to the status of Travellers. For example, when a member of the Traveller community becomes seriously ill, their extended community rallies round. This has been known to cause alarm among health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Subcultures, Social Distance, Social Bias
Bailey, Natasha – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2011
From 2008-2009 the author was commissioned by AONTAS in partnership with Irish Aid to carry out a piece of research which aimed to examine how there could be a strategic focus on the integration of development education, or incorporating a global dimension to learning, into adult and community education in Ireland. It also examined whether or not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship, Global Approach, Community Education
O'Sullivan, Denis – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2008
This article argues that as adult educators we should not be outside the remit of our own theorising. It begins with an earlier effort to construct an ethical grammar to audit the probity of working to change others through adult education. This is situated in terms of contemporary debates about the possibility of truth and certainty in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Integrity, Adult Educators, Ethics
Mutwarasibo, Fidele – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2005
Within the course of a decade Ireland has emerged from being a country of emigration to a country of immigration. Since the mid-1990s, Ireland has undergone rapid economic expansion with the recent economic growth resulting in approximately 252,000 migrants entering Ireland over the last 6 years, according to the Irish Times (2003). While a large…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Migrant Workers, Foreign Countries, Immigration
Lanigan, Michael – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2005
This article deals with the role of Irish Higher Education (HE) in the context of the promotion of citizenship. It examines the circumstances in which Irish Higher Education currently operates in terms of access and participation with particular reference to the recent OECD Report (2004), "Review of Higher Education in Ireland". The article will…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship, Institutional Mission, Foreign Countries
