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Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Professor Camilla Fitzsimons Last Friday, the 27th June, my fourth book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland was published. This one has been a labour of love and, perhaps with all my books, a case of me seeking to write what I think the students that I meet and the people that I share activist interests with…
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Professor Camilla Fitzsimons Last Friday, the 27th June, my fourth book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland was published. This one has been a labour of love and, perhaps with all my books, a case of me seeking to write what I think the students that I meet and the people that I share activist interests with…
Keep readingSupporting Underrepresented Groups in Education and Disability Advocacy.
TtT (Turn to Teaching) and ILMI ( Independent Living Movement Ireland ) The Turn to Teaching Level 6 Foundation Certificate is a one year, university course for people who have an interest in primary teaching as a career path, but because of family, life, social and/or personal reasons were not able to pursue their dream…
Keep readingTUTOR Webinar Series in Review: Empowering Every Student – Reimagining Inclusive Education
Author – Sinead Matson As we head into the summer month and get a small reprieve from the year’s workload, it gives us an opportunity to catch up on events or information we may have missed out on during a busy academic year. The TUTOR project’s second webinar from the Facebook Live series, “Empowering every…
Keep readingWhat’s Going on Today in Palestine is Not New
Blog Authors: Anne Ryan and Tony Walsh Rana Sameeh Gabbash[1] [1] From the ‘Book of Poems’ Summer School Program, Al-Quds University Community Action Centre, (c2008) While this poem encapsulates the overt and covert violence of the Palestine we encountered more than a decade ago it also speaks to what we see nightly on our televisions…
Keep readingLessons from Palestine
Authors: Anne Ryan and Tony Walsh Suddenly the images of the bombed ruins of a Gaza shop front, perhaps a café, flashed across the news screens. Rags of ruined blinds fluttered in the breeze. Instantly I was back in a narrow, busy laneway in old Jerusalem and a sidewalk café fifteen years ago. We[1] were…
Keep readingHow can community education be a source of hope for a socially just world within this current climate?
Author: Suzanne Kyle Sometimes it feels like the world is on fire and it can be difficult not to feel despondent when the news is full of images of extremism, hate and rising far-right activity. So how can community education be a source of hope for a socially just world within this current climate? This…
Keep readingIn Review: An LGBTQI+ Inclusive Classroom – In conversation with Jamie Kenny, TUTOR Ambassador
Author: Sinead Matson The power of conversation should never be underestimated. It can change attitudes, thinking, policies, research, and practice. We wanted to create conversational spaces for change through the TUTOR Ambassador webinar series, the first of which was hosted by Maynooth University. The webinar, An LGBTQI+ Inclusive Classroom: In conversation with Jamie Kenny TUTOR Ambassador,…
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Adult and Community Education with Turn to Teaching: how we do things….
Written by: Declan Markey, Co-Coordinator of Turn To Teaching Adult and community education is about the development of skills, human relationships and the engagement of people in understanding the wider social forces that impact both locally and globally (Lynn Tett in Radical Learning for Liberation 2007:73 ) I used to love a good (random) house…
Keep readingCelebrating 20 Years of CEFA Ireland: A Journey of Strengthening Community Education
Written By: Conor Magrath
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