Community Education and Neoliberalism

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Community Education and Neoliberalism is written by Camilla Fitzsimons and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319459376 (ISBN 10) and 9783319459370 (ISBN 13).

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.