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Primary
Classroom-ready resources for exploring global issues with younger learners:
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Early Years
Simple, age-appropriate resources for introducing global themes through stories, play and early learning.
- Global Citizenship Education: Curious Teachers, Critical Classrooms →
- Helping Hands: A Development Education Resource for Early Childhood Education →
- Climate Change, Climate Justice 3: Trócaire’s Lent 2017 Resources →
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Post Primary
Resources to support discussion, critical thinking and action on global justice issues across subjects.
- Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future →
- Place, Politics and Power: A Financial Justice Walking Tour →
- A Teacher’s Guide to Greenwashing →
- Understanding and Exploring Famine in Ireland and Beyond →
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Higher Education
Resources to support teaching, research and critical engagement with global justice and development issues.
- Critical Thinking for Global Citizenship Education: A Conceptual Framework →
- Teaching Controversial Issues →
- How to Write About Africa in 8 Steps: An Ethical Storytelling Handbook →
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Youth
Practical resources for exploring global issues, participation and social change with young people.
- From the Ground Up: Youth Power Tackling Inequality with the SDGs →
- Voice, Body, Power: Gender-based Violence and Spoken Word Poetry →
- Migration Through the Darién Gap: Teaching Resources →
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Starting a new term, programme or learning cycle? Explore global citizenship and development education resources curated for your education setting, from schools and youth work
World Refugee Day 2026: 5 resources for teaching refugees, migration and solidarity
World Refugee Day takes place each year on 20 June. To mark the day, we’ve gathered five resources from the DevelopmentEducation.ie library to support teachers,
A Fossil Fuel Free Future?
There is scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) is the primary driver of climate change since pre-industrial times, and
All In: Spirit, Truth and the Journey Towards Reconciliation
Reconciliation Action Plan Facilitator and artist, Cassandra Gibbs responds to Reconciliation Week in Australia, happening from 27th May – 3rd June. The theme for the
From Nicaragua to Ireland: Fairtrade Coffee and Global Solidarity
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.
Critical Thinking for Global Citizenship Education
Join Brighid Golden for the launch of her latest book, ‘Critical Thinking for Global Citizenship Education: A Conceptual Framework’