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Traveller Education Framework at University of Limerick John Heneghan, June, 2009. Traveller ACCESS Initiative at UL. Reflecting on 6 years of work: Plans, interventions, mechanisms(processes) Expansion. Partnerships . . . Lim Cnty Interagency Geographic . . . . Limerick City & County
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Traveller Education Framework at University of Limerick John Heneghan, June, 2009
Traveller ACCESS Initiative at UL • Reflecting on 6 years of work: • Plans, interventions, mechanisms(processes) • Expansion Partnerships . . . Lim Cnty Interagency Geographic . . . . Limerick City & County Dialogue . . . to include behaviour h. • Leads to the • Credit earning activity (SIF Initiative with LIT) • Participating Travellers Interagency Subcommittees • 100+ Travellers engaged • BUT does not explain how/why these emerged
Staying with mechanics for a moment . . . . Publication Support U L A C C E S S Third Level 2007-08 Credit earning activities Mens Group Post- Primary Integrative Model Natl Sch Homework Club Research Support Progression mechanisms WomensGroup Credit earning activities Mature ACCESS Source:John Heneghan University of Limerick Why have these been successful?
Traveller Education Framework - a strategic approach: UL’s contribution to Limerick City & County inter-agencies Education Inter-agencies DES DSF FAS Garda HSE LIT Lim Yth MIC SCP UL VEC Accommodation Employment • Homework clubs • Credit-earning: • Woodwork • Metalwork • Tutoring • Mentoring • Subcommittees • Development • Leadrshp training PROCESSES Rapport building Empathy Collaboration Sustainability and Continuity Monitoring Source:John Heneghan University of Limerick
UL Education Framework for Travellers: implications beyond education • “A fundamental architecture for social inclusion” • Prof. Michael Morley, Kemmy Business School • Embraced by Limerick County Interagency • Provides a new vocabulary - dynamic • Objective oriented – Strategic • Competencies identified & Resources harnessed • Potential for progressing other groups eg. Socio/econ, Adults with Autism, Down Syndrome In line with UL ethos: “serving communities in its hinterland” UL’s 20/20 Vision (1998)
Publications • -Parley-Poet and Chanter: Pecker Dunne • Candlelight Painter: Willie Cauley • Canting with Cauley • Parley with me • The stranger in ourselves: Ireland’s Other • ALL of the above edited by Micheal O hAodha, A.&.A. Farmar Publisher • Postcolonial Borderlands by Christine Walsh & OhAodha, Cambridge Scholars Publishing