Swift, Maggie (2025) Rediscovering The Voice, I Never Knew Was Taken. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Abstract
My research question is how people with care experience, experience education and learning. This question is not just an academic process, but a personal one, as I am a person with care experience. I decided an autoethnography scribed through journal entries was the most fitting method to ensure a humanistic, heartfelt, and meaningful approach was reflected.
I use my autobiographical research to allow the reader to understand what parts of my experience felt like from inside and outside of the system of social care. This research illustrates both truth and emotion and above all, inserts the personal voice of a child, who felt forgotten, unseen, silenced and misplaced.
My findings are Systemic Failures, Feelings of Oppression, Difference and Displacement, Disability, Intersectionality and Empowerment. The fourth finding is Reclaiming my Own Power.
The theoretical research outlined in this thesis is explained through Freirean framework, focusing on the challenging of oppressions and social norms, opposing social beliefs and through my own data adding to limited research.
Adult education is where I learnt how systems appear within the world of theory, how they are formed, how they impact what we choose to believe, who we are and who we become.
My findings emphasise the need for legislation focusing on people with care experience, and the immediate creation and installation of an MGT practice.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the MEd in Adult and Community Education. |
| Keywords: | Rediscovering; Voice; MEd in Adult and Community Education; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Adult and Community Education |
| Item ID: | 20744 |
| Depositing User: | IR eTheses |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2025 15:23 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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