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Top 10 resources on developmenteducation.ie in 2014
It’s been a busy year. An extra 80 resources have filled the digital shelves of the resource library and many more are to follow over in 2015. Out of the 41,804 resource library pages viewed by web users in 2014 three themes have cropped up more than once in the
Top 10 blogs on developmenteducation.ie in 2014
The results are in for the most shared and read blogs on developmenteducation.ie over the course of the last year. As expected, they present a wide snapshot of issues that readers were interested in most. Some readers may be surprised by the blogs that made it into the top 10
Doing Development Education: Ebola – resources and ideas
The past few weeks have witnessed an avalanche of discussion and debate on the 30th anniversary remake of Band Aid by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure with its emphasis on the Ebola crisis which threatens to become, according to Oxfam ‘the definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation’. In typical swashbuckling
Have your say – complete our survey and win DE resources
It’s that time of the year again where teachers, educators and readers have their say to help us improve DevelopmentEducation.ie by taking part in our short online survey. Those who complete the survey will be in with the chance of winning a free hamper of 15+ development education resources The
”The clanging chimes of Doom”…Oh no, wait, that’s just Bono
Thirty years on and Geldof is back. Again. He’s back with Ultravox’s Midge Ure and they’re asking, “how can they know it’s Christmas time?”: surely a progression from wondering “do they know it’s Christmas time at all?”. Band Aid returned on our tellyboxes on Saturday night on X Factor, no
Notes from Kampala: despite Ebola ‘Africans’ do know it’s Christmas…again
Bob is back. Sir Bob I mean. And so is Christmas! And so is Band Aid. Is it really 3 decades since celebrities across the globe revealed to an unsuspecting world that “there won’t be snow in Africa” and “do they know it’s Christmas” anyway (my emphasis)? What’s ironic to
Ebola in Sierra Leone: the cost of living on the margins
In the second of a series of blogs about the impact and consequences of Ebola in Sierra Leone, Africa Research Institute researcher Jamie Hitchen, back in London following a year spent working in the country, focuses on new economic hardships. You can read the first blog, on health care, here.
Issue 19 of Policy and Practice out now: Finding the ‘Historically Possible’
The autumn 2014 issue of Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review is out! Policy and Practice is a bi-annual, peer reviewed, open access (free) journal published by the Centre for Global Education (Belfast). Issue 19’s theme is titled: Finding the ‘Historically Possible’: Contexts, Limits and Possibilities in Development Education.
An exemption for business from the ESD strategy? On the silence of the business sector and local government
The National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development for Ireland 2014-2020, published over the summer of 2014, includes a range of opportunities and recommendations for development educators which are well worth exploring. But what about education and the “business” of sustainable development? ______________________ Developing a strategy that aims to crisscross
Development Education and the National Strategy on Education for Sustainability Development in Ireland 2014 – 2020
Definition of Education for Sustainable Development Education for sustainable development develops and strengthens the capacity of individuals, groups, communities, organizations and countries to make judgements and choices in favour of sustainable development. It can promote a shift in people’s mindsets and in so doing enable them to make our world