GCAS offers a new model to future researchers and students — the freedom to learn and explore knowledge without debt. Academic freedom is compromised by student debt, so we created a space to nurture and encourage critical thinking and reflection without economic pressure.
Léaráid le Ted Rall
Is pobal lárnach de chuid na n-ealaíon liobrálach muid a spreagann smaointeoireacht dhánach chróga atá fréamhaithe sa stair agus i réasúnaíocht fianaise-bhunaithe.
The classroom should never be dominated by abstract, rote learning and trivial test-taking. Instead, education should be primarily collaborative, student-centred, and concerned with particular problems drawn from contemporary social and economic events and from one’s own life experience.
In this way, students become accustomed to a higher-level learning process of “questioning the question” — of learning by critically engaging the presuppositions on which questions themselves frame the “problem.”
Seachas an múinteoir ag cur ábhar réamh-eisithe, oibiachtúil ar fáil do dhaltaí a ghlactar leo mar shoithí folmha, is é an tsamhail atá againn ná Éascaitheoir a chuireann ar chumas próisis comhfhoghlama.
The task for pedagogy today is to consider not just the problem per se, but the lenses through which it is understood, processed, and acted upon — not only within institutions, but also within the lived culture where those problems are encountered.
Serious learning is not easy at times, because it challenges your assumptions and asks you to give evidence for why you hold the beliefs you do. This is the beauty of the learning process — a process that is about growth, honesty, and truth.
The education model we developed is the first of its kind, and rests on three foundational pillars:
Is comhúinéirí ar an gcoláiste iad ár ndámh agus ár gcéimithe, rud a chinntíonn comhtháthú idir sármhaitheas sa teagasc agus misean na hinstitiúide.
Tairgtear scoláireachtaí laghdaithe táillí teagaisc do gach mac léinn a nglactar leo, bunaithe ar fhiúntas a n-iarratais.
Cuirimid cláir chéime creidiúnaithe ar fáil san Aontas Eorpach trínár n-institiúid chomhpháirtíochta, Woolf.
We don’t receive funding from foundations, interest groups, or the state. We are owned and operated cooperatively by ourselves. When you become a researcher, you become part of an academic community whose mission is to protect and create bold new ways of thinking and being in the world.
Bí páirteach i bpobal ina bhfuil níos mó tábhachta le d'fhás intleachtúil ná le do stádas airgeadais.
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