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How Transformational Is Irish Healthcare Education?: Exploring The Role Of Intercultural Competence Learning For Practising Health Professionals, Catherine Spencer
How Transformational Is Irish Healthcare Education?: Exploring The Role Of Intercultural Competence Learning For Practising Health Professionals, Catherine Spencer
Irish Journal of Academic Practice
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Learning For Liberation, Teaching For Transformation: Can Education In Prison Prepare Prisoners For Active Citizenship?, Anne Costelloe
Learning For Liberation, Teaching For Transformation: Can Education In Prison Prepare Prisoners For Active Citizenship?, Anne Costelloe
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
The idea that education can imbue the learner with the skills, values and attitudes necessary for active citizenship has come to permeate mainstream educational discourse. This paper examines the relevance of that discourse for prison education and considers what it may have to offer the prison learner? It suggests that it has much to offer because 'citizenship' is itself a learning process that instils developmental and transformative change. Thus, prison educators should not only think of learning as a key dimension of citizenship but citizenship as a key dimension of learning. Accordingly, 'civic competency' should be seen to be just …