1913 Lockout Memorial Scholarship (MA CEESA)

international | education | press release Monday June 17, 2013 16:34 by Laurence Cox - MA Community Education, Equality and Social Activism

Awarded for practitioner excellence

A scholarship covering full course fees for the Maynooth MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism, awarded on the basis of practitioner excellence in community education, action for equality and / or social movements.

The MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at NUI Maynooth has now completed three very successful years in the course of which we have worked with a wide range of social movement activists and community educators who are using the course to reflect on their own experience, develop their practice and build links across movements with others committed to equality and social justice.

To mark this, and in keeping with the course’s own commitment to equality, we are offering a scholarship for one student entering the course this autumn. The scholarship is named after the Dublin Lockout of 1913, which marks a historical moment in the encounter between social movements and Irish society, and a landmark in struggles for equality. It has also become a key reference point in community education and popular culture.

The 1913 Lockout Memorial scholarship is innovative in form, representing the course’s status as a practitioner course and the University’s commitment to community engagement. Rather than duplicate the various scholarships based on academic criteria, this scholarship is awarded on the basis of practitioner excellence in the field and by a committee comprising both practitioners and scholars in the area.

Full details at http://ceesa-ma.blogspot.ie/2013/06/1913-lockout-memori....html
NB the deadline is Monday, July 1st. Sorry for the short notice!