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Event: Game on! Using games based learning to explore global issues in Transition Year
How can young people learn about issues affecting our world today through games-based learning? What is gamification and what contributions can games-based approaches make in challenging and stirring action in Transition Year spaces on global justice and human rights?
Event: Joining the Dots on Qatar, Modern Slavery and Legacies of Colonialism
Following the 2022 World Cup, hosted in Qatar, the session is an opportunity for history teachers (or those that teach with history components such as CSPE or politics and society teachers) to use the example of Qatar and modern slavery to apply a new framework for Critical Development Education
Free speech, censorship and snowflakes – take the test
Explore 10 short myths about the limits of freedom of expression, social media and the free press in an increasingly digital and connected world.
Qatar and the World Cup – The beautiful game, gone ugly
3 key ‘sportswashing’ issues the Qatar World Cup hosts don’t want you to know. A list, by Kai Evans.
Decolonising museums – a reading list
The author of ‘Decolonize Museums’ assembles a list of essential reading on the past, present and future of museums
Access to or lack of? Food insecurity in 2022 – an update
An additional 345 million people are food insecure. How did this happen? Navika Mehta reviews the latest global food security report
#100objects podcast: ‘For many people, it’s not questioned’ – on FGM and women’s rights in Kenya with Órla Ryan
Órla talks about what it was like meeting former circumcisers involved in female genital mutilation, the power of her platform working in a newsroom, her views on the term ‘fake news’ and shares tips for young people (particularly women) interested in exploring roles in journalism.
Reshaping the Global Health Architecture in Times of Growing Geopolitical Divides
Global Health Architecture Post-COVID-19 session from the World Health Summit 2022
World Food Day round-up
The World Food Day round-up includes new features and interactives for teaching and learning based on key drivers of hunger today
#100objects podcast episode 3: ‘I Run the World’ and 75:25 with Martyn Turner
On episode 3 of the podcast, guest host ‘educational activist’ and development educator Colm Regan interviews colleague and friend Martyn Turner on the perils, dilemmas and trade-craft as a cartoonist.