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1 online resource |
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Community Education and Neoliberalism; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: Community Education in Neoliberal Times; What Is Community Education?; Assessing the Neoliberal Turn; Neoliberalism's Failed Agenda; Ireland's Neoliberal State; The Neoliberalisation of Community Education; Co-option Through Social Partnership; Neoliberalism in Crisis; Ireland's Austerity Agenda; Whose Recovery?; Neoliberal Resistance and Pockets of Difference; Community Sector Resistance; About the Book; Consistency of Language Amidst Community Education Restructuring |
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Signposting ChaptersPart I -- What Is Community Education?; Part II -- The Neoliberalisation of Community Education; Notes; Part I Community Education, Philosophies and Practices; 2 Models of Community Education; The Dubious Nature of Community; About Education; Involving Practitioner Voices; Research Methodology; What Is Community Education?; The Role of the Community Educator; Models of Community Education; Universal Approaches to Community Education; Community Education as a Second Chance; Radical Community Education; Identifying Models of Practice; Practitioner Discussions on Disadvantage |
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ConclusionNotes; 3 Community Education in Ireland; Sketching a History of Adult and Community Education; Daytime and Evening Provision Through VECs and the Literacy Movement; Women's Community Education; The Spread of Ideas Through Training for Transformation; The Wider Community Development/Anti-poverty Movement; The Involvement of the Academy; Research Findings on Contemporary Community Education; Network Connections Amongst Practitioners; Shared Examples of Practice; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Critical Education and Community Education; Theories of Learning |
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Why Do We Need Philosophies of Education?The Benefits and Pitfalls of Humanistic Community Education; Theoretical Foundations of Critical Education; The Influence of Paulo Freire; Towards a Feminist Pedagogy; Uncovering Philosophical Perspectives in Contemporary Practice; Examples of Humanism; Examples of Radical/Critical Philosophies; Examples of Anti-intellectualism; Doing Critical Community Education; Using Codes; Conclusion; Notes; Part II The Neoliberalisation of Community Education; Introduction; 5 Community Education and Employability; What Is Social Policy? |
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The European Lifelong Learning AgendaIreland's Policy Reaction and the Implications for Community Education; Community Sector Policy Developments; Neoliberalism Takes Hold; The Emergence of SOLAS; Community Education and Conditionaliy of Welfare; The Co-option of the Community Sector; Changes in Local Government; Enter the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme; Practitioner Perspectives on Change; Community Sector Co-option; Strategising Relationships with Policymakers; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Community Education and Accreditation; The Origins of Accreditation |
| Summary |
This book explores community education in Ireland and argues that neoliberalism has had a profound effect on community education. Rather than retain its foundational characteristics of collective, equality-led principles and practices, community education has lost much of its independence and has been reshaped into spaces characterised by labour-market activation, vocationalisation and marketisation. These changes have often, though not always, run contrary to the wishes of those involved in community education creating enormous tensions for practitioners, course providers and participants |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 23, 2017) |
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Community education -- Ireland
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Education -- Ireland.
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EDUCATION -- Essays.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Reference.
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Community education
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Education
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Ireland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319459370 |
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3319459376 |
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