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Brennan, Aislinn; O'Grady, Maeve – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2022
The funding model for further education and training (FET) in the Republic of Ireland currently describes provider and learner success in narrow quantifiable terms as captured on the national Programme Learner Support System (PLSS). FET practitioners have grappled with the restrictive rigidity of these outcomes and measures of success for adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Psychological Characteristics, Educational Policy
Fitzsimons, Camilla; Nwanze, Lilian – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2022
Racism is not an anomaly, rather it is an ordinary feature of our world and is a symptom of white supremacy. This article draws from critical race theory and critical pedagogy to make sense of this assertion and to contemplate possible responses. Using an autoethnographic research paradigm, we draw from our own contrasting experiences and…
Descriptors: Racism, Social Justice, Adult Education, Critical Race Theory
Murray, Thomas – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2022
This article explores the nature of successful human rights education through the lens of a single case study. In the context of new legislation governing the right to work, An Cosán's Right to Work Education Project partnered with more than forty International Protection Applicants (IPAs) living in Direct Provision centres across Ireland. Funded…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Education, Civil Rights, Inclusion
Speirs, Neil M. – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2021
This paper draws on both a theoretical understanding and a semi-autoethnographic approach of the lived experience of working class adult learners in higher education during the COVID-19 global pandemic. In particular, the paper warns of the doxic notion of current working class struggles being singularly attributed to COVID-19. Rather it is vital…
Descriptors: Working Class, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Higher Education
Parkinson, Suzanne; Brennan, Fiona; Gleasure, Sean; Linehan, Eoghan – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented impact on our world. In a short period of time, it has exposed deep and entrenched inequalities between and within societies and has prompted a radical rethink of the purpose and function of education. It is clearly no longer sufficient to impart learners with mere curricular knowledge. It is…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adult Learning, Adult Students, COVID-19
Lavender, Peter; Tuckett, Alan – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2020
This article reviews the adult literacy campaign in the 1970s in the United Kingdom (UK) and the influence of Paulo Freire's thinking on how we worked. We argue that much adult literacy provision had been designed to 'domesticate' rather than 'liberate'. The mid-1970s 'Right to Read' campaign in the UK rejected this approach (BAS, 1974). The use…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Pshyk, Zoryana – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2020
This paper draws on narrative inquiry research: an epistolary autoethnography from a daughter to her mother written to communicate a story of powerlessness and oppression and an immense desire for liberation. The researcher sought to make meaning from her personal experience and to understand the impact of the Direct Provision System on her life.…
Descriptors: Freedom, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged
McCarthy, Finola; O'Brien, Stephen – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2020
This paper examines the experiences of one adult educator's engagement with Freire's praxis through teaching horticulture. The principal belief of the paper is that engaging in critical dialogue and reflexive action is an evolving journey of unlearning and hope for both learners and educators. The paper suggests that trusting in Freire's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Praxis, Horticulture, Humanization
Slevin, Amanda; Elliott, Roxanne; Graves, Rosie; Petticrew, Colleen; Popoff, Alexandra – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2020
Climate breakdown is one of the greatest challenges our world faces. Driven by social, economic, political, environmental and ideological forces, the climate crisis necessitates critical, creative, inclusive and impactful action across multiple levels of society. Adult learning is a core element of societal transitions to a more sustainable future…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Power Structure, Teaching Methods, Climate
Costa, Graca dos Santos; Mallows, David; Costa, Patricia Lessa Santos – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2020
In this paper we situate a discussion of the decolonial curriculum within the context of a Brazilian postgraduate programme (MPEJA) focused on adult and youth education (EJA). We draw on the work of Paulo Freire in our discussion of decolonial thinking and its pedagogical representation within EJA in Brazil. We suggest that engagement with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, College Curriculum, Adult Education
Shannon, Denise – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2019
This article discusses some of the main findings of a Critical Discourse Analysis of two landmark documents in Irish adult education: Learning for Life: The White Paper on Adult Education (DES, 2000) and the Further Education and Training Strategy (SOLAS, 2014) (from here on referred to respectively as the White Paper and the FET Strategy). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis
Dowdall, Leah; Sheerin, Edel; O'Reilly, Niamh – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2019
This article is a reflection on the National Further Education and Training (FET) Learner Forum (NFLF). It uses the NFLF as an example of learner voice in practice, retracing the history of the NFLF as a means of reflecting on some of the benefits and challenges of bringing learner voice into public policy. The article outlines educational debates…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Individual Power, Discussion Groups
McKillican, Alex – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2019
This paper examines and critiques existentialist interpretations of being within Paulo Freire's educational theory. The principle supposition of the paper is that through engaging in adult education, the adult learner can heighten their understanding of their lives, metaphysically. The paper also posits that adult education can develop the will;…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Connolly, Brid – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2018
This article aims to explore the recent promotion of reflective practice in teacher education and to draw on the thinking that has developed in adult education, particularly in feminist community education. It endeavours to unpack, briefly, the foundational theories that are promoted in teacher education and identify the failings inherent in these…
Descriptors: Feminism, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Education, Adult Education
Breen, Fintan; Kelleher, Sarah; Ring, Emer; Stapelton, Seona – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2018
In 2015, an Interdepartmental Group (IDG) examining mechanisms to support access to the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme for children with disabilities recommended the creation of a role of Inclusion Coordinator in early years' settings. LINC, an innovative competency-based adult continuing professional learning programme, is a…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Blended Learning, Professional Continuing Education, Inclusion