PhD

VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF PHD RESEARCH- Gertrude Cotter

Ms. Gertrude Cotter is a 4th year PhD student at the School of Education, UCC. These seven panels represent some of initial research findings. They are based on the stories of eight research participants, four third level students at University College Cork and four community-linked partners, in Ireland, India and Lesotho. The core research question is: what can educators learn about adult learner engagement in Global and Local Social Justice issues, through deep research within third level classrooms using community-linked and multi-media enhanced methodologies and what is the impact of this pedagogy on partner communities?

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Some of the questions being asked here are:

How can we merge methodologies such as critical ethnography, classroom, online and community-based learning and multi-media narrative enquiry to provide a deep and thick description of the student Development Education learning experience?

What impact does personal story-telling by students and community-partners have on participant civic engagement and activism relating to social justice issues?

What impact does story-telling and community-based research/pedagogy have on community partners?

How can we move from “the story” and “community based learning” to political conscientisation in Development Education?

ACCOMPANYING THE PhD PANELS ARE VISUAL INTERPRETATIONS & AUDIO OF THE RESEARCH

FINDINGS BY STUDENT TEACHERS