On my walk with Sinead along Dun Laoghaire pier she reflects on how walking this space provides her with the possibility of experiencing the therapeutic value of a horizon.

In search of a horizon - with Sinéad in Dun Laoghaire

In the stubborn rain of a pandemic summer in 2020, Camilla brings me, and her two dogs Hugo and Ferris, on one of her regular walks around her home in north Dublin.   In this extract, from the early part of our walk, Camilla reflects honestly on her difficult relationship with her father who, when she was young. would often bring her and her siblings out walking around the suburban streets of south Dublin.  She also talks about how she has, as an adult,  reclaimed walking for herself and her own family as a positive and purposeful activity.

A reclamation of walking - with Camilla around the Navan Road

Jerry, walking through the Devil's Glen in Wicklow, introduces an edited collection from the walks he has been on with five adult educator colleagues over the year 2019-20.    Sinead, Fergal, Bríd, Conor and Camilla all reflect, as they walk, on the significance of walking in their lives.  A lot emerges in our walks together:  walking into the thinking spaces offered by horizons; walking as psycho-social acts of orientation; walking as protest; the class dimensions of walking; walking as colonial subservience and post-colonial reclamation; and the gendered and familial tensions and performance of walking ...

Six Adult Educators Reflect On Walking

A series of occasional walking dialogues and reflections which explore, on foot and in situ, the significance of place and walking on people’s ways of knowing and being in the world.  
Each conversation takes its own path: some are focused on a specific topic or theme that is walked and talked through; others focus on walking itself and the space that we find ourselves moving slowly through.   
One of the purposes of this walking project is to explore the possibilities of walking dialogues and reflections for education and research.  
Facilitated and produced by Jerry O'Neill, Department of Adult Education, Maynooth University.

A reclamation of walking - with Camilla around the Navan Road

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