O'Neill, Jerry and Cullinane, Susan
(2017)
Holding the line: A slow movement
towards a critical professional development
for community educators.
The Adult Learner.
pp. 113-129.
ISSN 0790-8040
Abstract
Professional development is a fundamental, if sometimes, overlooked aspect of
nurturing high quality adult education. Creating genuine and engaging spaces
for such development presents a number of challenges for organisers in any one of
Ireland’s sixteen Education and Training Board’s community education services
who work with a tutor body that are contractually and occupationally precarious
and geographically dispersed. In December 2016 a group of adult and community
education practitioners came together for a day-long professional development
workshop, entitled ‘Deepening Practice’ in which they critically reflected on their
values, philosophies, challenges and opportunities as educators. The workshop
was creatively recorded by the graphic harvester, Eimear McNally, as a series of
hand-drawn, wall-postered images (Figs. 1-7). In what follows Susan Cullinane,
a Community Education Facilitator who was also a participant on the day, and
Jerry O’Neill, the workshop co-facilitator, engage in an asynchronous reflective
dialogue about the process and significance of the workshop that aspired to be part of
a slow move towards a critical and creative professional development space for ETB
educators.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
adult and community education; critical professional development;
quality; creative; precarity; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Adult and Community Education |
| Item ID: |
11139 |
| Depositing User: |
Jerry O'Neill
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| Date Deposited: |
08 Oct 2019 14:20 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
The Adult Learner |
| Publisher: |
The National Association of Adult Education |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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