Ciara Regan presents an update on World Breastfeeding Week 2017. Her 2016 World Breastfeeding Week report is re-posted below as, unfortunately, the facts haven’t changed. Quick link to 2017 update (below) The majority of people are well aware of the incredible health benefits of breastfeeding for a baby. I consider
Dora-Olivia Vicol explores the findings from recent research about health misinformation and Covid-19 by fact-checkers Africa Check, Full Fact and Chequeado
The modern fairtrade movement is now some 50 years old and has a significant history and track record reflected in current debates, arguments and criticisms.
Political cartoonists around the world have tweeted their responses to the massacre at the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where armed gunmen killed four French cartoonists. Here are xxx 1. Ruben Oppenhiemer (Netherlands): #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/15O4YC2KWg — Ruben L. Oppenheimer ???? (@RLOppenheimer) January 7, 2015 2. Martyn Turner of The
The hyper-consumption phenomenon, Black Friday, now takes place beyond the US and is growing. Toni Pyke reports on Black Friday from an afternoon in late November. It’s Friday, 24th November. It’s 9am and I’m stuck in Kampala traffic. This is nothing unusual. Much of my day is spent in traffic.
Recent meetings in Edinburgh (part of the IF Campaign) and elsewhere have highlighted the fact that issues such as ensuring a legal commitment to 0.7% of GNI as aid; climate justice and fair trade have become part of the debate on whether Scotland becomes an independent nation following the referendum
“Progress towards the post-2015 education SDG will be stymied if the quality and effectiveness of teaching are not front and centre in the main list of targets.” Where do the proposed education targets fall short? Policy paper no.16 (1 Feb, 2015) Education for All Global Monitoring Report by UNESCO. As
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,
This section includes the following: Public ‘attitudes’ and aid issues – some implications for development education Coming to public judgement on development issues 7 steps in coming to public judgement – an opinion ‘learning curve’ Some key ingredients for success in the public education ‘learning curve’: learning from other movements
Inspired by students from the US, a small group of students from Trinity College Dublin joined other students from all over the world in calling on universities and other institutions to stop funding the cause of climate change and called on the board of TCD to divest its oil, gas and coal investments
The Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Culture Public Education Project was initiated by Dundrum Rathdown Youth Service as a youth led public education project focused on the theme of interculturalism
Are fossil fuel energy companies in the US receiving an unfair amount of criticism, despite investing in low carbon energy practices?
Already, there are hundreds of videos available on the Sustainable Development Goals. Here, Colm Regan presents his top 5. 1. Leave No One Behind https://youtu.be/pBqe8JD62QE For us, the best place to begin. A powerful introduction outlining the issues at stake with striking images and quotes (‘because on earth, everyone has
In the shadow of the most traumatic attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust and what Palestinian people are referring to as a ‘second Nakba’, Ciara Regan shares a three-point guide for educators and teachers looking to make sense of the latest and most extreme clash of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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
Some seven years ago, developmenteducation.ie published a guide on the then situation in Gaza in 2014. Disgracefully, we find ourselves in much the same situation in 2021
Today is Africa Day, so get out, get planning and enjoy the plethora of opportunities across the country celebrating all things from Africa! The 5th Galway African Film Festival (25-27 May) starts today and runs for the weekend at Nun’s Island Arts Theatre, Galway. The festival presents a programme of
Looking to energise, introduce or start exploring a development education (DE) issue? Here we present 10 activities for younger groups and 30 activities for anyone over 12 years old. You can (and indeed should) adapt them to suit the needs of your group. Feel free to use these in conjunction
**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 primary and post-primary schools, for youth and for adult education contexts. They feature resources by theme (the death penalty, action
This video is part of John Oliver’s wider TV programme which satirises current affairs. The setup of this video is John Oliver presenting as if part of a news station, but the news content is John’s comedic take on America’s food wastage. Facts are brought to light throughout this video
It’s that time of the year again where teachers 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 development education resources and some fair
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 Global Citizen Award is a personal development award that enables returned volunteers to share their overseas experiences and continue to make a difference to global justice issues at home
2011 was a year of extraordinary people-powered resistance, starting with the ‘Arab Spring’ and spreading across many parts of the world. How did this resistance work so well? In this 11 minute piece, Srdja Popovic (who led the nonviolent movement that took down Milosevic in Serbia in 2000) analyses the
As someone who remembers what it means to ‘put pen to paper’, being asked to write for a blog at first drew a total blank. Everyone has heard of ‘ blog,’ ‘blogger,’ ‘blogging’ and whatever else blog associated there is in ‘blogosphere.’ Yet, have we ever stopped to think what
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.
At less than 30 pages each, The Failure Reports readily embrace the notion that it is important to learn from ones mistakes – and tell others. In an age if information abundance EWB believes that knowledge that flows from direct experience (both good and bad) should be shared so that
Balram was forced to leave school early to work in a teahouse. He comes from what he calls ‘The Darkness’ which is a rural area called Adiga where education and electricity are scarce. He escaped this existence by becoming chauffeur to a landlord from his village, who goes to Delhi
The Adventures of Riley series of books excellently combines fiction and non-fiction for young people that introduce and explore a variety of current issues such as climate change, endangered animals, environmental issues, etc. Riley regularly receives invitations from his uncle Max (a scientist that studies animals, their habitats, and the
Today is the 5th annual Nelson Mandela Day, since it’s inauguration in 2009 on Nelson Mandela’s birthday – the 18th of July. Today he turns 95. The Mandela Day Website states that this day is a call to action for people everywhere to take responsibility for making the world a
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