Dr Bríd Connolly

Biography
I have been an adult educator for over thirty years, beginning with women's studies in 1985, with the Department of Adult and Community Education, MU. Since then, I have worked with many different groups at undergraduate and post-graduate levels, both non-formal and formal.
Professionally, I am the director of the PhD in adult and community education I also work on the Doctorate in Higher and Adult Education, Masters in adult and community education, and HDip in Further Education programmes. I supervise theses and teaching practice in all of these programmes.
My research interests developed from this work, with particular interest in feminist and critical pedagogy, gender and diversity and groupwork in adult learning.On sabbatical leave in 2016-2017, I focused on feminist pedagogy in the context of the era of diversity.
I am also very interested in creativity in all fields. In 2014, I enrolled on the MU Certificate in Creative Writing for Publication, and since then, I won the Kildare Readers' Festival Short Story Competition, in 2015 and I was short listed for the RTÉ Francis MacManus Story Story competition in 2016 and 2017.
Professionally, I am the director of the PhD in adult and community education I also work on the Doctorate in Higher and Adult Education, Masters in adult and community education, and HDip in Further Education programmes. I supervise theses and teaching practice in all of these programmes.
My research interests developed from this work, with particular interest in feminist and critical pedagogy, gender and diversity and groupwork in adult learning.On sabbatical leave in 2016-2017, I focused on feminist pedagogy in the context of the era of diversity.
I am also very interested in creativity in all fields. In 2014, I enrolled on the MU Certificate in Creative Writing for Publication, and since then, I won the Kildare Readers' Festival Short Story Competition, in 2015 and I was short listed for the RTÉ Francis MacManus Story Story competition in 2016 and 2017.
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2014 | Dr Brid Connolly (2014) 'Community Education: Exploring Formative Influences within the Maelstrom of Conflicting Social Forces' In: Michael Murray, Bernie Grummell, Anne Ryan(Eds.). Further Education and Training: History, Politics, Practice. Maynooth : MACE. | |
2007 | Connolly, B. (2007) 'Beyond the Third Way: New Challenges for Critical Adult and Community Education' In: Radical Learning for Liberation 2. Maynooth : MACE. [Full-Text] | |
2006 | Connolly, B. (2006) 'Adult and Community Education: A Model for Higher Education?' In: What Price the University? Perspectives on the meaning and value of higher education from the National Universityof Ireland, Maynooth. Maynooth : NUI Maynooth. [Full-Text] | |
2005 | Connolly, B. (2005) 'Learning from the women's community education movement in Ireland' In: J. Crowther, V. Galloway & I. Martin(Eds.). Engaging the Academy. Leceister : NIACE. | |
2002 | B. Connolly, A. Walsh, L Borys (2002) 'Imagination and Epistemology: Creating really useful 'knowledge'' In: Set in Stone. Maynooth : MACE. | |
2000 | B. Connolly, A. B. Ryan (2000) 'Women's Community Education in Ireland: the need for new directions towards 'really useful knowledge'' In: Stretching the Academy. | |
1999 | Connolly, B. (1999) 'Group work and facilitation skills: A feminist evaluation of their role in transformative Adult and Community Education. Volume 1' In: Women and Education in Ireland. Maynooth : MACE. [Full-Text] | |
1998 | B. Connolly, M., Drea, S., and Quinlan, K. (1998) 'Group Skills for Community Development' In: Facilitators Resource Pack. | |
1996 | Connolly, B. (1996) 'Community Development and Adult Education: Prospects for change?' In: Radical Learning for Liberation. Maynooth : MACE. [Full-Text] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | brid connolly (2018) 'Reflective Practice and the Feminist Lens: The Other Side'. The Adult Learner, :23-35. [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Dr Brid Connolly (2013) 'The War Against People: Adult Education Practice for Critical Democracy'. The Adult Learner, 1 :76-89. [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Dr Brid Connolly (2013) 'Theorising Creative Critical Pedagogy: the art of politicised agency'. To be added, 14 :1-15. [Full-Text] | |
2009 | Dr Brid Connolly, with Anne B Ryan, Bernie Grummell and Fergal Finnegan (2009) 'Beyond Redemption? Locating the Experience of Adult Learners and Educators '. The Adult Learner, 1 :131-137. [Full-Text] | |
2005 | Connolly, B. (2005) 'The Local and the global: Context for the development of community education in Ireland'. JOURNAL OF LIFELONG LEARNING IN EUROPE, 3 :191-197. | |
2005 | Connolly, B. (2005) 'Saint Bob and me: women's community education and the struggle for global political change'. ADULTS LEARNING, 16 :17-20. [Full-Text] | |
2003 | Connolly, B. (2003) 'Community education: Listening to the voices'. The Adult Learner, 10 :9-19. [Full-Text] |
Conference Contribution
Book Review
Magazine Article
Year | Publication | |
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2013 | Dr Brid Connolly (2013) Adult education in times of crises: from Trojan Horses to New Ethics. [Magazine Article] [Full-Text] |
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