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Development Education: roots and values
Photo: third world exploitation poster spotted in Toronto (Jan 26, 2013) by Mary Crandall. CC NC-ND 2.0 license via Flickr Recent years have witnessed many ongoing calls for a ‘definitive definition’ of development education (DE) and failing that for abandoning the term in favour of, inter alia, human rights education,
100 Million, 5 million, 1 in 12…what do these figures have to do with bananas?
It’s Fairtrade Fortnight again! This year’s focus is on Bananas – 100% Fairtrade Bananas! Bananas are the most traded fruit in the world with more than 100 million tonnes produced every year. Bananas are the third most popular fruit in Ireland with approximately 5 million being consumed every week. Unfortunately,
Development Education Funding for Post-Primary Schools- Grant call now open!
Is your school interested in getting involved (or is already involved) in development education activities? Or are you an NGO or an education network working with schools on development education? If so, there’s an exciting opportunity for you to apply for funding to support your development education activities. Funding is
FairTrade Fortnight (23rd Feb – 8th March): A Coffee Lover’s Delight!
I love coffee. I love good coffee, and have come to the conclusion that I am a coffee snob. I am so addicted – to “good” coffee that is – that I even have the necessary tools to make up my own latte, cappuccino, mocha, you name it, at home
New feature: Debating Development and Human Rights
The new Debating Development and Human Rights section, developed in partnership with Concern, went live this week and can be found at https://www.developmenteducation.ie/debates As well as establishing core debates on an ongoing basis – ones developed by developmenteducation.ie, commissioned or sent in and suggested by others – it has a
8 things we’ve learned from the website in 2014
A year’s worth of web analytics, research, discussion and collaboration offer some interesting insights which may be of use to DE colleagues. Here, we share 8 of those lessons. 1. There are still many gaps in DE resource provision and therefore many opportunities (and needs) to fill them Despite the
Insight 2015 – applications now open
Insight 2015 is an 8 month part time development education programme aimed at adults centred on a non-formal experiential learning journey, which involves spending three weeks in Tanzania or India.
Saudi Arabian blogger will be flogged, every week for the next 19 weeks
It’s been a startling fortnight for anyone that blogs, writes, doodles or puts pen (and pencil!) to power. This afternoon, inhumane and degrading punishment was scheduled to be carried out on blogger Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia and subsequently will continue to be carried out every Friday for the next
Challenging the Crisis – Young people across Europe united over concern for development
2015 is an important year for international development. This year, global leaders will hold two remarkable summits focusing on both people and the planet. One UN summit to be held in New York in September will result in a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to replace the previous
Singing well after the Charlie Hebdo killings
Comments made in the heat of the moment are, usually, thought to be unwise. Wednesday’s attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices have produced an outpouring of commentary which ranges from racist, xenophobic rhetoric to thoughtful expressions of disgust (and much else besides, including shocking defences of the attacks). There are,