Learning for Life
The Learning for Life podcast aims to celebrate and highlight positive examples of lifelong learning, and learning in all its forms; formal, informal and non-formal. The podcast celebrates diversity, ability, inclusive practices and learning for all with a focus on learning that enable people to enhance their social, human, identity and cultural capital. The podcast has been created by and is presented by students and staff from Doras and Bonnington Training Centres in Cork City, Ireland. Doras and Bonnington Training Centre are Further Education Training Centres for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism.
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Episodes
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Shane talks to Elaine Murphy, Cope Foundation Fundraising & Communications department about the 5 Peak 1 Week Challenge & Lauren outlines the partnership between this initiative, our podcast & the We Need to Talk About Rights Campaign. Timmy & Mary focus on the right to employment & talk with members of ability @ work & one of their employer partners, Janssen. Finally, we talk to Siobhan Abbott about a sustainability & biodiversity project called the serendipity Project.
Thursday May 13, 2021
Thursday May 13, 2021
First in a series dedicated to rights of people with a disability, we discuss what rights mean to students in Doras & Bonnington Training Centres. We chat to Derval McDonagh general manager of Cope Foundation about a rights campaign she is involved in. Finally Denis Mangan updates us on the green campus & how we can support biodiversity.
Podcast Team: Ayopa Awofeso, Aoife O Sullivan, Timmy Begley & Shane O Sullivan, Students & Staff Bonnington & Doras Training Centres.
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
In our first Learning for Life Ireland podcast, Timmy Begley discusses lifelong learning with Grainne O Driscoll, a tutor in Doras Training Centre and the Team introduce the New Green Campus Initiative happening in Bonnington and Doras Training Centres, Cork.
Host: Ayopo Awofeso
Interviewer: Timmy Begley
Contributor: Eamon Nash
Interviewee: Grainne O Driscol