Reading the world: 4 resources for critical literacy
Literacy today is about more than reading words. It is also about understanding
Literacy today is about more than reading words. It is also about understanding the information around us. Asking where it comes from, what evidence supports it, what may be missing and how we can check what we are being told.
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Explore the 6 phases in producing learning resources or teaching materials that reflect critically on the world around us.
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Explore a learning unit that has been developed to support teachers and students in exploring famine in the context of Irish history and beyond.
Understand and Explore Famine in Ireland and Beyond.
If we can make sense of complex systems, we have a better chance of changing (or redesigning) them.
Explore a resource for facilitators of Global Citizenship Education.
Literacy today is about more than reading words. It is also about understanding
Starting a new term, programme or learning cycle? Explore global citizenship and development
World Refugee Day takes place each year on 20 June. To mark the
There is scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and
Reconciliation Action Plan Facilitator and artist, Cassandra Gibbs responds to Reconciliation Week in
Fátima Ismael of Soppexcca, Cathal Murphy from Bewley’s and Fairtrade practitioner Kieran Durnien discuss 20 years of Fairtrade coffee solidarity linking Nicaragua and Ireland.
Join Brighid Golden for the launch of her latest book, ‘Critical Thinking for Global Citizenship Education: A Conceptual Framework’
It’s January, its 2026, and we want to hear what you’d like us to feature or work on in 2026.
Your voice is vital in shaping the future of education for sustainable development in Ireland. Join a national survey for post primary teachers in October, led by DCU researcher Valerie Lewis
The webinar will feature YSTE projects, from Santa Sabina Dominican College (Dublin), Moate Community School (Westmeath) and CBS Thurles that focussed on nutrition and better food production, with Self Help Africa’s nutrition and gender specialist in Ethiopia, Sara Demissew.
Explore this key baseline on teaching materials from Ireland that were produced during the first 4 years of the SDGs.
Summary of the main Sustainable Development Goal per resource 2017-2020.
Through the stories from the people involved in bringing them about, this podcast series explores a number of the objects featured in the exhibition that act as a snapshot of Irish engagement with global cultural, political and social issues over the past 50 years.
Looking for resources that link to the SDGs, such as booklets, short films, issue-based activity packs or an NGO report?
Say hello, to the Sustainable Development Goals Explorer.