Maynooth University Department of Adult and Community Education

The Publicness of Education in our Republic

This year’s Forum addresses public education across all sectors and will explore issues such as whether it is important to keep education as a public responsibility; who benefits from public education; and why so many countries have moved to privatise education and what has been their lived experience.
Keynote Speakers 

• Professor Gert Biesta, Brunel University London
• Professor Deborah Britzman, York University, Canada
• Professor Kathleen Lynch, UCD
• Professor Aislinn O’Donnell, Maynooth University

This year’s Forum addresses public education across all sectors and will explore issues such as whether it is important to keep education as a public responsibility; who benefits from public education; and why so many countries have moved to privatise education and what has been their lived experience. 
​Agenda and speaker biographies available here