Teachers & Educators
Materials and guides for educators in formal and non-formal education.
‘All of me was learning, not just my mind…’: reflecting on study visits and immersion programmes in development education
This guide explores many of the issues involved in study visits and immersion programmes; it offers practical suggestions and ideas for organising them as well as for reflecting on them.
Getting started with global issues – a primary level guide
Photo: © Clifton Rooney (2017) www.developmenteducation.ie hosts a wide range of materials and resources that cover diverse global development themes and issues. These are presented through a variety of media
50 Picturebooks to Change the World
Thérèse Hegarty and Patricia Kennon explore picturebooks in learning contexts and how they encourage discussions of friendship, conflict, struggle, norms, points of view, difference and injustice in a distanced way, therefore allowing sensitive issues to be discussed without direct disclosures about the children’s own lives.
6 Quick Activities for Human Rights Day – December 10th
**Update: check out the Human Rights Day 2020 live-blog. For starters, check out Amnesty International Ireland’s human rights education resources and the international HRE resources. There are resources for both
Team Planet
Team Planet is an active learning programme focused on the themes of environment and interdependence designed for use at individual class levels but also on a whole-school basis.
A guide to 5 quick activities on World Food Day
Five quick-fire activities to get you started on teaching the issues, the debates and key ideas around World Food Day, by Colm Regan. // 2020 UPDATE: Is world hunger increasing
How to teach trade inequality
Peter Manning presents a brief guide to teaching inequality in a primary schools context.
Using novels to explore development issues: some initial ideas and suggestions
An introductory guide to fiction and development