Muscat, Maigh Mucreimhe, Mezirow and Maynooth
Vist our latest Blog post 'Muscat, Maigh Mucreimhe, Mezirow and Maynooth' by Niall Dempsey, MEd in Adult and Community Education student
Niall Dempsey is an educator from Athenry currently studying the MEd in Adult and Community Education at Maynooth.
His interests are in Adult Literacy, Autoethnography, and Disability Identity. He taught for a decade in the Sultanate of Oman where he met his two Omani hounds, Jojo and Sowdee. While travel remains a passion, they live together now ‘at home’ near a haunted castle, surrounded by forest and family. “Life is good!”
....."I reflect on my ‘truths.’ Challenged and transformed as they are through discourse within the Department of Adult and Community Education and I say out loud, “no one is born fully-formed; it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.”
‘Freire said that,’ I brag but my companion ignores me busily scratching her ear.
Despite this slight, I remain enraptured with the scholarship, with Freire, Foucault, Butler, and Goffman and am thankful to the Department of Adult and Community Education for the exposure to them. I reflect on new ways of thinking and not just of thinking but of understanding that thinking. I think therefore I am."
Niall's full Blog Post is available at: https://dacemaynooth.com/2022/03/05/muscat-maigh-mucreimhe-mezirow-and-maynooth/