7. Irish Adult Educators Find Fulfilment amid Poor Employment Conditions

Next we have a chapter, which considers Irish systems. ‘Irish Adult Educators Find Fulfilment amid Poor Employment Conditions’ (Ch7). Sarah Bates Evoy studies the working conditions of part-time lecturers in Further Education and Training by interviewing the practitioners in person, seeking to establish why they tolerate their conditions of work and whether they are even aware that they are disadvantaged compared to other sectors in education. The chapter uses Margaret Archer’s (2000, 2003) work on identity, agency and structure as an effective framework for analysis, considering wellbeing in terms of natural, practical and social factors