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Here you can keep up to date with the Department of Adult and Community Education (DACE), Maynooth University. We strive to create posts keeping you up to date with our research, students, projects and Colleagues in the field of Adult Education on an inclusive platform, giving everyone in our diverse community a voice.
Adult education is the study of how we learn and develop as adults to collaborate in the creation of a just, equitable and sustainable society. Adults bring their personal and social experiences into education: emotionally, intellectually and physically. We transform lives and communities through adult and community education.
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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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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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Supporting 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…
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TUTOR 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…
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What’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…
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Lessons 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…
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