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Empathy – Who Cares Anyway?
Brighid Golden explores the concepts of sympathy, empathy and selective empathy and how to explore these in your teaching spaces.
Children’s art & ‘greenwashing’: Is Chevron/Texaco overstating its carbon emissions claims?
Chevron claims that they achieved their target of lowering carbon intensity between 2016 and 2020, but is this really helping to lower emissions?
GOAL: adapting and responding to Covid 19
As part of the Irish Development Education Association conference 2020, Jessica Sargeant showcased how GOAL has adapted its edication work to Covid-19
Wood of Life Exhibition
The Wood of Life is a hands-on, interactive exhibition for schools, libraries and other education facilities. The exhibition also makes direct links to many of the Sustainable Development Goals
10 ideas to continue your global citizenship journey – Part 3
Covid-19 highlights the importance of our Global Citizenship and Development Education. A 3-part series.
10 ideas to continue your global citizenship journey – Part 2
Covid-19 highlights the importance of our Global Citizenship and Development Education. The second in a 3-part series, Colm Regan introduces 3 teaching strategies for adapting and exploring with learners
10 ideas to continue your global citizenship journey – Part 1
Covid-19 highlights the importance of our Global Citizenship and Development Education. The first in a 3-part series, Colm Regan introduces 3 teaching strategies for adapting and exploring with learners
Project Honduras
Project Honduras’ is a strategy game where the primary goal is to show how important it is for communities to work together to combat climate change
The Development Education Commission
The Development Education Commission was conceived and designed to influence policy and practice in development education in Britain and Ireland. It arose from the need
Trocaire’s Better World Award Project
Trocaire’s Better World Award recognises the work and learning that takes place in the classroom while exploring each year’s key Lenten theme.
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
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.
Blog Posts
It’s international women’s day. Don’t forget to tag us now that you feel #prettypowerful
From getting out to vote and entertaining two children off school due to it being a make-shift polling station, Ciara Regan reflects on international women’s day 2024.
Punching above its weight
Juan Acevedo-Ossa explores South Africa’s case against Israel as the latest example of its ability to act as a normative superpower, exceeding the great powers in shaping global moral discourse.
What does Palestine have to do with Africa?
How does Israel’s current aggression on Gaza relate to Africa’s own history of political violence in Uganda and Africa?
Invoking of Article 99 by the UN Secretary General – what does it mean?
The United Nations Secretary General invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter, but what is Article 99 and what does it mean, in reality?
Solving the climate crisis means ending our addiction to economic growth
De-growth in the Global North will not work unless it is done alongside reparations for the Global South
A 5-point starter guide to doing global citizenship education
Are you an educator looking to explore global issues but unsure where to begin? Then this 5-point list is the list you’ve been waiting for.
Infographics
Videos
Natural Born Settlers
Maker Iris Zaki, a self-described liberal from Tel Aviv, wanted to get behind the politics of Israel’s controversial settlements in the occupied territories — so she moved there, temporarily, setting up an improvised cafe where she could chat with settlers from her own generation. The majority of interviewees were brought to the settlements by their parents, growing up as Israeli settlers gained a stronghold in the area. The conversations cover issues of animosity, morality, inequality, indifference and acceptance. This mini-documentary, “Natural Born Settlers”, gives an insight into the lives of Israeli settlers that grew up in the West Bank.
How can Africa improve the quality of life for Africans and not other continents?
Africa has a wealth of resources in its people and natural resources yet social protection programmes have very low coverage and are underfunded – an animation by Afrodad
A Fair World for Children
Children and adults from Fairtrade Certified coffee producing organization in Uganda explore what child labour from their perspectives
Women at Work
They are farmers. They were raised by farmers. That’s all they have known because that’s all they have done, generation after generation – an animation by Fairtrade Africa
I am Congo – another Congo
Congo, maybe someone has already brought you back some stories, some sounds, some travel diaries. But what if there were more?
The Prohibition Game
A short animated film by Alon Simone gives a lighthearted treatment to a serious subject: the devastating impact of Israel’s permit regime for Palestinian farmers with land across the Separation Barrier. Courtesy of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
How to talk about Africa
Africa No Filter has developed a handbook for journalists and storytellers to equip them with the tools to write about Africa beyond stereotypical narratives
The Autocomplete Truth
The 21st century has been hailed as the century of women. Yet a recent Google search shows just how much prejudice and discrimination towards women and gender equality persist.
Women in Somalia: Inspiring Change
For over two decades, Somalia has experienced some of the most difficult humanitarian crises in the world, including drought, famine and violent conflict – a short film by Mostaza Filmz and Trócaire