Conference Discussion Groups
Discussion Groups - Bringing together the theory and reality of Intercultural learning
These discussion groups will explore different examples of adult learning and how they contribute to intercultural dialogue. The groups will be led by a facilitator with a brief input from and animator from an adult education group.
After lunch, participants will return to their discussion groups and map emerging ideas and policy directions.
Engaging isolated men and the role of adult & community education
MAIN
Joe Murdiff
The community based group, Men Alone In No-man's-land (MAIN), outlines its work with socially-excluded males in Dublin's North Inner City drawing on the recommendations derived from the research study 'Own Goals and Penalties.'
Cultural competency training and the Irish Health Service
Health Service Executive (HSE)
Rosemary Orr
Connolly Hospital has a diverse healthcare workforce, with approximately 20% of staff from countries other than Ireland, along with an increasingly diverse client group. The hospitals involvement in the European initiative 'Migrant Friendly Hospitals' will be discussed with regard to cultural competency training.
Irish cross-border learning initiatives
Newtownabbey & Drogheda Inter-community Partnership
Victor Robinson
This partnership initiative centres on developing good community co-operation, reconciliation and understanding, building trust and mutual respect between protestant and catholic groups north and south of the boarder. The workshop will reflect on the learning from this project.
Senior Learners and intercultural exchange
Failte Isteach
Mary Nally
This workshop will focus on a project where older people were instrumental in delivering practical, learner-centred, English classes for migrants. The effectiveness and richness of the work will be outlined together with their experience of other intercultural learning.
Women's groups putting intercultural dialogue in action
Access 2000
Pauline Ennis
A women's community education group will link their local and international experience of intercultural dialogue drawing on examples of practice from experience of traveller women's groups in Ireland and women's groups in Tanzania.
Ireland's indigenous minority and the role of adult learning for intercultural dialogue.
St Margaret's Traveller Training Centre
Aoife Cooke
This workshop gives an overview of a project that involved women from the Traveller community in Ireland. This project involved the production of a DVD which was used to promote cultural and intercultural awareness of the Traveller culture.
A town of many nations: a collaborative intercultural assessment of a town's needs
Tuam Community Development Resource Centre
Loretta Needham
The objective of this study was to explore the needs of different nationalities now living in Tuam. The project recruited and trained a multinational group of volunteers as field workers and they also distributed questionnaires in their own language. The workshop will reflect on the learning of the study and how intercultural assessment is a progressive and pioneering method for community development and learning.
An international model of intercultural learning
NILE Project**
Vasiliki Tsekoura (DAFNI, The Vocational Training Center, Greece)
The Network on Intercultural Learning in Europe (NILE) project (2002-2008), composed of adult education organisations from 20 European countries has developed 4 tools for mainstreaming intercultural learning in adult education on different levels (learning groups, media, institutions). The workshop will offer an opportunity for learning about the tools and discussing the issue of intercultural mainstreaming.
Media awareness and intercultural learning
NUI, Maynooth
Gavan Titley
The media clearly play a significant role in our perceptions of society and each other, but something called 'the media' is often cited as being responsible for an enormous range of negative and positive impacts. This workshop raises some questions about interculturalism and the media, and asks what the adult and community education sector can do to encourage critical awareness.
Understanding diversity for effective intercultural dialogue
Open Minds
David Walsh
This workshop will reflect on effective intercultural dialogue for organisations. A case study will be used to explore the repercussions that a lack of intercultural understanding has on an organisation.
Intercultural learning for adult educators and facilitators
(Winner of the European Lifelong Learning Award for Quality in Mobility, Bronze in the Grundtvig category) **
Anne Walsh (Lifelink International) will give a brief overview of the award-winning Grundtvig project: UNEC - multicultural skills for teachers and trainers.
** EU Project
