Carroll, Janefer (2012) To earn or to learn? Why the women from Navan Traveller Education Centre returned to learning. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

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In July 2012 the Navan Traveller Education Centre closed its doors for the last time. The centre had been providing learning and training opportunities to members of the Traveller community in Meath for over 20 years. This thesis asks the Reseach Question – Why did the Women of Navan Traveller Centre returned to learning following the closure of the Traveller Training Centre in Navan, Co Meath. This thesis challenges many of our preconcieved ideals concerning the motivations of Women in the Irish Traveller Community,and particularly why they accessed learning through the centre. In conjunction with the exploration of why the Traveller Women returned to learning this thesis will also explore the creation and evolution of the Navan Traveller Womens Development Group and the role it played in helping the women shape their own future

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Keywords:	women; gender; women learners; women travellers; women traveller; traveller; travelling community; Navan Traveller Education Centre; return to learning; back to learning; M.Ed. in Adult and Community Education; M.Ed.;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Adult and Community Education
Item ID:	9635
Depositing User:	IR eTheses
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2018 12:03
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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