Maintaining deep roots

This article explores on the formative influence of adult popular education in evolution and continued ethos literacy Republic Ireland. Freire’s work has been influential within Irish community development, informed by Freirean practices learner-centredness, experiential learning group learning. stands contrast to Further Education Training system which services are based, become increasingly professionalised recent years, susceptible ideological values performativity. The analyses findings research reports used a mixed methods approach. They reveal how sector holds important spaces for educators counteract systemic pressures performativity as they with learners their communities through pedagogies education, but this is constrained its radical transformative possibilities.