Water Splash was designed to support young children to explore the role that water plays in their lives, the availability of water to children in parts of the developing world, and the responses they can make in relation to responsible water use. Each poster in the booklet can be used
‘Show Racism the Red Card’ is a 28 page teacher education pack developed by an Irish charity of the same name. The organisation aims to “harnesses the profile of sports personalities and others to communicate an anti-racism message.” The manual and accompanying video are set out in 6 separate sections:
The resource pack includes guidelines and checklists for the effective use of interactive methodologies common to development education resources in a classroom setting. It contains background information and Reflection Activities to prepare teachers to explore justice issues with learners. The pack also includes activities, worksheets, images, curriculum links, videos and
As well as links to primary sources in Uganda (news articles, videos etc.) this resource includes strong evaluation components for peer-learning and ongoing assessment. Learning Objectives: Students will distinguish between primary and secondary sources; Students will acquire and use skills to locate primary sources using the internet; Students will critically
The civil war in Syria has continued for six long years. Over those years, more than five million people have been forced to leave their homes, their families, their communities, their work, their education in order to seek shelter throughout neighbouring countries and the rest of the world. The sheer
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Partnership Network The network partners and people we work with on the website is at the centre of our approach to development education. The content, case studies, blogs and visuals are compiled and produced by the many educators, students, activists and non-profit organisations that work on human development, human rights
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 interested and engaged readers. As the scale of multiple global challenges converge on presidential terms, conflict zones, the environment and
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Links for Teachers: Education resources focused on Trees and Sustainability: beagleproject.org Environmental education resources: epa.ie Climate change adaptation resource from the UK Department of Environment and Rural Affairs – defra.gov.uk Education resources on a range of topics provided by the UK Science Museum: sciencemuseum.org Recommended Videos: Earth Day – Give
Tuesday next week, the 16th October, is World Food Day. Toni Pyke sketches out the background to the international day and introduces a new #ZeroHunger series, brought to you by the Professional Development Support Service for Teachers (PDST), developmenteducation.ie, Concern Worldwide and Self Help Africa. World Food Day (WFD) commemorates
The 2019 theme ‘Leave No One Behind,’ invites teachers and pupils to learn about the Global Goals and the work of Irish Aid in partner countries. Schools are supported with: Child-friendly resources, like the very popular 12-page pupil’s magazine Curriculum-linked teaching materials to help teachers deliver across the primary curriculum
‘Health’ and ‘well-being’: does our understanding depend on if we are in a developed or developing country?
The resource aims to: Develop children’s self-esteem and their own self-worth by exploring what makes them unique. Build on children’s understanding of themselves through their relationships with others and specifically our relationships with the global south. Explore how we make decisions and choices, especially around consumerism and how these can
There has been marked progress on reducing poverty over the past decades. The world attained the first Millennium Development Goal target – to cut the 1990 poverty rate in half by 2015 – five years ahead of schedule, in 2010.
developmenteducation.ie recently spoke with an old friend and colleague Phil Glendenning, director of the Edmund Rice Centre in Sydney and now president of the Refugee Council of Australia, about Australia’s offshore and onshore asylum seeker detention system.
What is undernutrition? How many children in Africa are underweight, stunted or wasted, or don’t get the minimum amount of food they need?
For this year’s Our World Irish Aid Award, schools are supported with: Child-friendly resources, like the very popular 12-page pupil’s magazine (available in English and ‘as Gaeilge’) Curriculum-linked teaching materials to help teachers deliver across the primary curriculum areas (with teacher resource sheets & pupil worksheets available in English and
Join us on Culture Night 2020 to launch the Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects exhibition – broadcast online from Iveagh House, Dublin on 18 September.
On Australia Day, Phil Glendenning reflects on the colonial facts of Australia’s history, the disregard for its First People and the urgency to act now following the killing of George Floyd
What’s it like tackling rumours and myths on Whatsapp from Kenya to stop the spread of false information about Covid-19? Kenya editor of Africa Check, Alphonce Shiundu, gives an insider’s account from the first year of the pandemic
Media literacy is an essential skill in today’s age of content creation. Having the ability to think critically and identify misleading information online is an essential skill that takes time and practice to grow. This resource helps teachers to introduce key behaviours and methods of identifying good media literacy practices.
Economist Michael Green explores where progress has been made in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals, and where there has been stagnation, or a decline. He finds that levels of hunger and basic medical care are broadly improving across the globe. Clean water and sanitation has seen some improvement since
Misinformation about the coronavirus is rampant but when the mainstream media tries to debunk these myths, it can sometimes backfire..
The Foundation seeks to explore, understand and conserve the natural world through research and responsible engagement with society. Through its website Nature Conservation Foundation shares teaching resources, community practice guides and onward learning opportunities and stories to bring India’s natural heritage to a global audience.
The Global Health Matters podcast provides a forum for discussing the most important global health topics of the day.
A video showing an animal being roasted on a spit has brought vitriolic racist hate online, with commenters claiming it shows African migrants in Ireland roasting a dog. But the animal in the video is a pig. A fact check by Mary Alexander.
2011 saw the publication of two reports on international ‘risk’; one published early in the year by the Risks Report Network of the World Economic Forum (the Global Risks Report 2011) and the second the World Risk Report 2011 from the Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft (Alliance Development Works – a coalition
Today is World AIDS Day. It has been almost 30 years since HIV and AIDS was first recognised and diagnosed. HIV and AIDS has since spread at an alarming rate globally and now affects most countries in the world (where the information is available). Although there have been major breakthroughs
Macroprudential regulation is supposed to deal with two major issues: the procyclicality of the financial system, and systemic risk and moral hazard caused by systemically important financial institutions that are considered “too big to fail”. To address procyclicality, the Basel Committee has proposed, beginning with large and connected financial firms,
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