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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Adult & Community Education"”.
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Adult community education as sites for the development of social capital in a culturally diverse society
This research investigates the roles that adult community education (ACE) providers and programs play in the development of social and cultural networks for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in a regional community context. Within the milieu of the Shire of …
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Adult Enrichment Learners In St. Cloud, Minnesota: Motivational Reasons For Participation
… study was to identify reasons and motivation of adult stakeholders that influence participation in adult community education enrichment classes in the St. Cloud Public School District, St. Cloud, Minnesota. The study also examined the perceptions about adult learners held by leaders, planners, …
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Feminist Subjectivities: sources for a politicised practice of women's personal development education
… objective of the work is to advance theories of adult politicisation, human agency and critical adult education. Based on original fieldwork with self-defined feminist women, feminist subjectivity is characterised as a three-way production involving a) different feminist discourses, b) relations …
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Education and the Reproduction of Inequality Praxis, Products and Palliatives
… process. The ideology which underlies the education system is part of a philosophy which promotes competitive individualism. In order to reveal the nature of the political process of Education it is necessary to reveal its ideological basis. The concept of meritocracy which is central to …
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Learning to Care: Adult Education and Gendered Occupations
This study concerns second chance education initiatives and gendered employment. The focus of the research is on women re-engaging in adult education who chose professional childcare as a vocational option. Childcare as a gendered, low pay, low status occupation yields poor rewards for women who …
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Classed: A Study of Traveller Mothers and their children's schooling.
… long been marginalised in Irish society, with educational attainment rates well below the national average. The purpose of this research is to elucidate and understand the experience of Irish Traveller mothers as they engage with their children’s schooling. This study draws on in-depth, …
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‘A Road Less Spoken’ The experiences of Youthreach participants
… West of Ireland as they try and progress their education through the further education provision of Youthreach. This research addresses the gap that exists in the current literature on early school-leaving by presenting the voices of participants, which offer unique and rich insights into this …
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Promoting Active Retirement: A Case Study Examining The Mobilisation of Social Capital to Achieve Desired Organisational Outcomes.
Community and voluntary organisations harness and develop network ties and resources, volunteerism and civic participation. Organisations contribute to society’s social capital stock and play a role in maintaining social cohesion, supporting civil society and generating social renewal. National …
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Deepening Dialogue in Silent Spaces: Ireland’s pedagogy of peace.
… communities. It describes the significance of education in enabling dialogue to deepen between communities of ‘others’. It describes the transitional processes impacting on the lead up to the most recent peace agreement, the Good Friday Agreement (1998). This thesis is an analysis of the …
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Further Education Provision and Learning for Social Transformation. A case study of the experience of introducing a social change agenda into further education programmes within Vocational Education Committees
Further Education refers to education and training that occurs after second level schooling but is not part o f the third level system. (Ireland, 1995; Department of Education and Science, 2004b). It encompasses a complex and diverse range of provision involving a range o f players. Vocational …
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Early School Leaving in Ireland The Matrix of Influences Explored
… in this thesis as a result, for example education completion rather than school completion. New paradigms demand changes at the level of approaches, relationships and organisation and a keener understanding of lifelong learning. The formal education system has much to learn from the …
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Equal but Different: Gender Discourses in the Social Relations of Irish Peacekeepers & Possibilities for Transformation
Equal but Different: Discourses in the Social Relations of Irish Peacekeepers & Possibilities for Transformation Motivated by the lack of action and transformation of gender relations within peacekeeping since the adoption of UNSCR 1325 in 2000, this study explores the gendering processes within …
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An Inquiry into the Theory of Action of School Development Planning constituted within the Professional Culture of the School Development Planning Initiative 1999-2010
… and policy discourse under the auspices of the Education Reform Act (1988) in the United Kingdom and the Education Act (1998) in Ireland. SDP in Ireland reflects national policy aspiration and traditional Irish cultural and educational values. SDPI, though only established for eleven years, had …
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Empowering Children Through Circle Time: An Illumination of Practice
… Ireland. These include a psychological turn in educational and societal discourse, a move towards inclusive and rights-based education, and an orientation towards personal development evident in recent reviews of the SPHE Curriculum (1999). The current research is prompted and informed by a …
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University in Society: Organising for Engagement in Ireland
… global discourse regarding the mission of higher education in society. Furthermore, my research is underpinned by theories and practices from the field of civic engagement. Civic engagement usually refers to partnerships between higher education institutions and their surrounding communities, with …
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Searching for equality: improving reading literacy at second level in disadvantaged schools. The impact of the JCSP Literacy Strategy on reading literacy with a particular focus on the impact of the JCSP Literacy Medley.
The consequence of being failed by the education system has life-long implications – if one is deprived of basic education, of literacy and numeracy skills, one is excluded from economic, social, and political participation. Success in education offers the marginalised freedom, choices and …
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Capsule Education: Cultural Influences in Education Provision
… that students, their perception shaped by the educational experience they have undergone, view education as a commodity and require that information be packaged for easy consumption. The purpose of this study is to ascertain if this, in fact, is the case, and to examine the current situation in …
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The Irish adult education policy process since 1997: some lessons for the future
This thesis examines Irish adult education policy making since 1997 to identify lessons for future development of the sector. It is aimed at adult education stakeholders, policy makers and researchers to provide them with a deeper understanding of adult education policy making so that they can …
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Pathways to Competence and Participation in the Digital World
… theory practice to investigate how and why adults approach their own learning for basic digital literacy. Specifically, the questions of how we should characterise learning for digital literacy and what are the key influences on the learning decisions of adults undertaking a basic computer …
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Improving learning through whole-school evaluation: moving towards a model of internal evaluation in Irish post-primary schools
… evaluation and in particular how the Irish education system and post-primary schools can successfully move from a centrally controlled system of evaluation to a model based on school self-evaluation. Within a context of increasing interest in school evaluation nationally and internationally, …
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