Tips, lessons learned and ideas for reflecting on study visits and immersion programmes in development education. A new guide, led by Colm Regan
Latest Blog Posts
5 ideas to NOT borrow from Australia’s asylum policy
developmenteducation.ie recently spoke with an old friend and colleague Phil Glendenning, director of the Edmund Rice Centre in Sydney and now president of the Refugee Council of Australia, about Australia’s offshore and onshore asylum seeker detention system.
Study visits were not driven by an ‘education-aid’ mentality
Scott Sinclair has been involved with Birmingham Development Education Centre and Tide~ Global Learning since
What The Fact? Fighting hoaxes, fakes and myths on key human rights and human development issues
In a digital world packed with fake news and fact checkers, is there a need
World Population – a rich resource with great data and killer graphics
We’re big fans of the excellent website Our World in Data
Like their manifesto? Put it to the testo
Does your candidate support human rights for all and will work to tackle the climate
‘Has your auntie got the t-shirt?’: public call for Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects
Throughout 2019, developmenteducation.ie and IDEA, in conjunction with NCAD, are launching a project to gather 100 objects relating to previous global solidarity and development education campaigns or actions.
"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."
- On Twitter
Was the premise of an RTÉ/TG4 exit poll statement asked of voters in May 2019 fair and objective? What The Fact investigates.
Research-informed guidelines led by Irish Aid and Suas from 2006, now available in the resources library: Linking between Ireland and the South: Good Practice Guidelines for North/South Linking
In the second part of the Living Between Trains and Drains series Toni Pyke explore the daily struggles and global realities of informal settlement living, with a focus on life in Namuwongo ‘slum’ in the city of Kampala in Uganda.
In Focus
New – Have you ever wanted to look for whether the SDGs are directly or indirectly included in a resource – whether a booklet, a short film, an issue-based activity pack or an NGO report?
Say hello, to the Sustainable Development Goals Explorer. Quickly find resources from our library that are relevant to each of the Sustainable Development Goals, 1 through 17.
Expect new books, videos and cutting edge global justice research reports to be added to the resource library, fortnightly.