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We cannot rest

This week marks the countdown to the global climate strike demonstration on Friday September 20th, 2019. In a series of blogs, developmenteducation.ie will be marking the week with youth-led contributions as part of a growing movement of school students and adults taking action on climate issues. Grainne O’Sullivan, a secondary

Learning by un-doing: the magic of immersion

The second reflection in the study visits and immersions programmes guide comes from Varja Lipovsek of East African NGO Twaweza (meaning ‘we can make it happen’ in Swahili) which works on enabling children to learn, citizens to exercise agency and governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya

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 it started and is a Tide~ trustee.  Scott and his colleagues have planned and delivered numerous study visits locally in Birmingham, the UK and internationally over the past 40 years.  As part of a three-part

Acknowledging Sally O’Neill – formidable woman and former colleague

Sally O’Neill, who worked for 37 years in Latin America for Trócaire, the Irish Catholic international development agency, died following an April 8, 2019 car accident in Guatemala. We were both shocked and saddened to learn of the death of our former colleague Sally O’Neill Sanchez in a car accident