This event is delivered as part of the AONTAS Adult Learners' Festival 2021 #BetterTogether. Click here for more information.
About this event
This workshop is aimed at adult educators, practitioners, academics, learners, policy makers and providers.
It will showcase the Learners as Leaders change-oriented adult learning methodology, the Irish model of community education, and learner voice activities.
Speakers include Professor Ted Fleming, Professor Jyri Manninen, Francesa Operti (Deputy Secretary General and Head of Projects, EAEA), adult learners and community education practitioners. Participants will explore and engage in democratic methodology and discuss the values needed to foster an inclusive democratic society.
This event is brought to you by AONTAS and the FutureLabAE project team as part of the Erasmus+ FutureLabAE KA2 project. Please contact Dearbháil Lawless, AONTAS Head of Advocacy if you have any questions dlawless@aontas.com.
An agenda for the event is available below.
| 9.20 |
Opening of Event Video |
| 9.30 |
Welcome and Introduction Niamh O'Reilly, CEO, AONTAS |
| 9.40 |
Introduction to the FutureLabAE Project Dearbháil Lawless, Head of Advocacy, AONTAS |
| 9.45 |
Participant Reflection • What are the values and beliefs needed to foster an inclusive society? |
| 9.50 | Democracy Exhibition |
| 10.00 |
Participant Reflection: Padlet Highlights Suzanne Kyle, AONTAS CEN Coordinator |
| 10.05 |
Learners as Leaders: Methodology and Learner Experience Craig Kelly, adult learner Amy Begley, adult learner Caitlin Lyons, adult learner Daragh Forde, The Cope Foundation Dearbháil Lawless, Head of Advocacy, AONTAS |
| 10.25 |
Democracy Education Theory with Professor Ted Fleming Adjunct Associate Professor of Adult Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York |
| 10.50 | Comfort Break |
| 11.00 |
Poetry Reading Noeleen Watson, adult learner |
| 11.05 |
Case Study: Roscommon Women's Network Nora Fahy |
| 11.20 | Knowledge Café |
| 11.40 |
FutureLabAE: What have we learned so far? Professor Jyri Manninen of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Eastern Finland. Francesca Operti, Deputy Secretary General and Head of Projects, EAEA |
| 12.00 | Wrap up and close |
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