Dublin Opinion

The first of four community stories which together provide an overview of Community Education in Dublin. Part of DCTV’s Beyond the Classroom project produced in partnership with the Aontas Community Education Network and funded by the BAI.

These four case studies span the last 30 years and provide an insight into what community education is, how it has been used in past by Dublin communities and the role of the networks which have developed to support community education.

The stories not only talk about community education. They give us the stories of Dublin’s Communities that are not often heard – the success stories where those central actors look back at what they have achieved, at how their work has transformed not only themselves but their communities. A message of strength and hope that is as relevant to a funder, government agency or educational institute as it is to a community or learner, these stories which start in the depths of another recession may be an important part of the answers we are looking to for many of today’s most pressing problems.

Episode one: KLEAR (Kilbarrack)

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