Welcome to the publications page of our website. Please find details and links below to a selection of book publications from staff in the Department of Adult and Community Education. A more extensive list and range of publications from department staff can be found at 'our people' page at: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/adult-and-community-education/our-people
This also includes books from MACE press, MACE (Maynooth Adult and Community Education) which is the department's publication house which specialises in Radical Research Practice & Theory in Adult and Community Education and books are available through the university shop https://shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?app=ecom&ns=catshow&ref=105 or on individual links below.
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Critical Perspectives in Further Education and Training Camilla Fitzsimons and Jerry O'Neill (editors) 2024 , Anthem Press This book is essential reading for educators, student teachers, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in critical viewpoints on adult, community, and further education. It offers a variety of outlooks that include educator identity, critical pedagogy, assessing learning, community education, global citizenship education, professional precarity, and more.
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Repealed - Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights (2021)
Camilla Fitzsimons (2021), Pluto Press. A celebration and analysis of a 35-year long grassroots movement that successfully overturned the ban on abortion in Ireland. |
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Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education.(2020) Case Studies in Methodology and Theory Grummell, B. and Finnegan, F. (Eds.). (2020), Brill | Sense. |
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Power and Possibility: Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex World (2019)
Finnegan, F. and B. Grummell (Eds.). (2019), Brill | Sense |
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Funding, Power and Community Development. (2019)
McCrea and Finnegan, F. (Eds). (2019), Policy Press International contributions from activists, practitioners and academics consider the evolution of funding in community development and how changes in policy and practice can be understood in relation to the politics of neoliberalism and contemporary efforts to build global democracy from the ‘bottom up’. |
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European Perspectives on Transformation Theory (2019)
Fleming, T., Kokkos, A., and Finnegan, F. (Eds.). (2019), Palgrave Macmillan This book offers a concise and comprehensive exploration of the theory of transformative learning by European researchers. Exploring Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning as a ‘living theory’, the editors and contributors ask whether there a uniquely European perspective on this theory that reflects Europe’s traditions and contexts. |
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Reflexivity and Critical Pedagogy (2018)
Ryan, A., & Walsh, T. (Eds.). (2018), Brill | Sense Reflexivity and Critical Pedagogy highlights the essential nature of reflexivity in creating sites for transformative possibilities in education. The book argues that seemingly intractable epistemological inequalities are embedded within educational structures and processes. |
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Community Education and Neoliberalism Philosophies, Practices and Policies in Ireland (2017)
Author: Camilla Fitzsimons. (2017). Palgrave Macmillan This book explores community education in Ireland and argues that neoliberalism has had a profound effect on community education. Rather than retain its foundational characteristics of collective, equality-led principles and practices, community education has lost much of its independence and has been reshaped into spaces characterised by labour-market activation, vocationalisation and marketisation. These changes have often, though not always, run contrary to the wishes of those involved in community education creating enormous tensions for practitioners, course providers and participants. |
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Access and Non-Traditional Students in Higher Education (2017)
Finnegan, F., Loxley, A. and T. Fleming (Eds). (2017), Palgrave Macmillan This book explores the access and participation issues present within Higher Education in Ireland. It examines policy, pedagogy and practices in relation to widening participation and documents the progress and challenges encountered in furthering the ‘access agenda’ over the past two decades. |
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Writing your thesis - A guide for postgraduate students 2015)
Editors: Anne Ryan and Tony Walsh. (2015), MACE Press
Writing a thesis can appear very daunting particularly if you’ve been away from formal learning for many years. |
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Building a Better Future (2012)
Contributions by the Irish Defence Forces
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New Managerialism in Education: Commercialization, Carelessness and Genderew Managerialism in Education (2012)
Lynch, K., Grummell, B., and D. Devine. (2012), Palgrave Macmillan This book examines the impact of neo-liberal reform on the traditional caring ethos of public services such as education, exploring how these reforms influence the appointment and experiences of senior management in education.
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Radical Learning for Liberation 2 (2007)
Editors: Bríd Connolly, Ted Fleming, David McCormack, and Anne Ryan. (2007), MACE Press |
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Unsettling the horses: Interrogating adult education perspectives (2004)
Editors: Anne Ryan and Tony Walsh. (2004), MACE Press |