Learning Together to Live Together
A course to build connections and understanding between cultures.
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This project was a collaboration between Dublin Adult Learning Centre and the Community Action Network.
This literacy friendly course helped learners from many cultural backgrounds to build their listening and speaking skills. Learners were also supported to develop soft skills like empathy, understanding, and tolerance.
10 three-hour sessions took place in the Dublin Adult Learning Centre between October and December 2024.
14 participants took part.
Learners from a wide mix of backgrounds, including migrants and international protection applicants, completed the course.
The Community Action Network (CAN) and Dublin Adult Learning Centre (DALC) worked together to adapt an existing programme for learners with unmet literacy or English language needs.
Tutors and learners looked at topics like racism and interculturalism without the use of difficult written texts.
Learners greatly improved their literacy skills. They also feel more confident about speak up for themselves and others from different communities thanks to this course.
Course materials were designed to be shared, so that other learning centres across the country can create similar courses in future.
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“I feel in this group there’s nobody left behind. We’re not hiding, we are who we are. I feel much more confident. I am so happy, I feel so free.” - Learner
For more information about this project, please contact Andrew Connolly, Regional Literacy Coordinator at City of Dublin ETB, at Andrew.connolly@aes.cdetb.ie
The Adult Literacy for Life Collaboration and Innovation Fund
The Collaboration and Innovation Fund supports projects for adults with unmet literacy, numeracy and digital literacy needs and projects that support organisations to be literacy friendly. The closing date for 2024 applications has now passed but keep an eye out for information on our 2025 fund which will be launched in December.
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