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Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 19
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Professionalising Community Work and Its Implications for Radical Community Education
Fitzsimons, Camilla
Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, p53-71 2010
This article adopts a radical lens and examines the relationship between community development, adult education and professionalism. It draws from research on one specific community- university partnership and presents the professionalisation of community work as detrimental to radical practice because of its encouragement of individual vertical progression for learners and a favouring of professional practitioner benefits over collective community gain. (Contains 6 notes.)
Descriptors: Community Development, Adult Education, Professional Recognition, School Community Relationship, Universities, Partnerships in Education, Community Education, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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