Book Launch - Community Education and Neoliberalism; Philosophies, Practices and Policies in Ireland

Camilla Fitzsimons Official Book Launch
Main Foyer, School of Education, North Campus, Maynooth University

Community Education and Neoliberalism Philosophies, Practices and Policies in Ireland

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.

Further information available from Palgrave Macmillan Publishers: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319459363