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Traveller Education Framework at University of Limerick John Heneghan, June, 2009

Explore the Traveller Education Framework at University of Limerick, reflecting on successful interventions, partnerships, and expansion plans with a strategic approach for social inclusion. Learn about credit-earning activities, mechanisms for progression, and the impact on other marginalized groups. Discover the processes such as rapport building, empathy, and collaboration driving these initiatives. Unveil why these initiatives have been prosperous and their implications beyond education.

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Traveller Education Framework at University of Limerick John Heneghan, June, 2009

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  1. Traveller Education Framework at University of Limerick John Heneghan, June, 2009

  2. 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

  3. 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?

  4. 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

  5. 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)

  6. 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

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