This resource sets out to make students aware that when online, just as in all other aspects of their lives, individuals have human rights. Everyone is responsible for their actions towards other people and for the safeguarding of other people’s rights. This is particularly pertinent in the more interactive realm
Set on location, using survivors of the massacre in minor acting roles and in behind the scenes movie production, the movie is based on the experiences of BBC news producer David Belton, who worked in Rwanda during the genocide. The story centres around the experiences of Roman Catholic priest, Father
Published on Oct 7, 2013 As a UK resource this resource is accompanied by UK-specific teaching activities which can be easily adapted. Assembly, TY Unit and SPHE this three minute animated video about food waste is designed for use in assembly, form time or SPHE, and is accompanied by notes.
Published on Jan 28, 2014 The consortium of American organic agriculture producers’s website, Only Organic, says: “Food labels that claim a food is “natural” may not guarantee that food is good for you or for nature. In fact, many so-called “natural” foods contain the toxic chemical pesticides, antibiotics, hormones and
Published on Sept 11, 2013 As explained on the Food Loss and Waste section on the FAO website: “Global food production must increase by 60% by 2050 in order to meet the demands of the growing world population. Yet, more than one third of the food produced today is lost
Published on Feb 12, 2014 For more on the GROW campaign and to support Africa’s smallholder farmers visit www.one.org/doagric/partners and www.oxfam.org/grow The artists featured in this video include: Baaba Maal (Senegal), 2 Face Idibia (Nigeria), Smarty (Burkina Faso), Lami Phillips (Nigeria), Daara J Family (Senegal), Sound Sultan (Nigeria), Titi Lokei
By the time you read this we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew for the rest of the year. Just as a bank statement tracks income against expenditures, the Global Footprint Network reports, Earth Overshoot Day measures humanity’s demand for and supply of ecological resources
YOU can make a difference by thinking about what you want versus what you need and making just that little bit more of an effort to get it. Some advise to the ethical consumer: Consume Less! – Shopping ethically isn’t enough. It’s not about simply replacing bad products with good
True sustainable development embodies a balance between using the Earth for the benefit of the human race and respecting the environment. Sustainable solutions set out to achieve this balance through the following goals: To continue to meet the fundamental needs of human life, society and communities – food, water, housing,
Anthropogenic – defined as ‘Having its origin in the activities of man.’ It is often used when discussing the causes of climate change – greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activites are anthropogenic causes. Biocapacity – Biocapacity refers to the capacity of a given biologically productive area to generate an on-going
Background Team Planet was originally developed and written by Kathleen Horgan of Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick, Ireland as part of a broader programme of teaching and learning about development and environment issues. Team Planet was initially published by the College in partnership with Trócaire, the Catholic Agency for
The report – This is What Has Happened, and photopack – The Lives we Live, focuses directly on the vulnerabilities of women as a result of the beliefs, values and structures that perpetuate their subordination in Zambian society. The report describes the dignity, resolve and strength of women in confronting
Here you can download free PDF samples, which includes chapter 1 in full, as well as the preliminary pages of 80-20 Development in an Unequal World, 7th Edition.
Source: German Federal Foreign Office and adelphi Download: PDF of infographic
“Dear Teacher….I have been dreaming about this book for more than a decade. I am, and always have been, passionate about Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and visualised this book because I wanted to provide students and teachers with an accessible starting point for learning about this important field. …. I
Source: Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education (DCU) and Trócaire (2017). Download: PDF version (3.56MB) Watch the Leaving Home animation produced by CHRCE and Trócaire
HIV and AIDS related stigma refers to the prejudice, negative attitudes, abuse and mistreatment of people living with HIV and AIDS. There are a number of reasons why people living with HIV and AIDS are stigmatised including fear of death and disease (especially because HIV and AIDS are relatively new
“‘Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that
Exploring our own ideas and perspectives on human rights Aim To provide an opportunity for participants to explore their own thoughts, ideas and feelings around the concept of Human Rights To explore Human Rights in Ireland and internationally To explore how individuals ‘value’ rights Activity 1: Human Rights? Organise a
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The Teacher Bundle: includes readings and activities on five lesson plan topics – Global Citizens, the Global Goals, Climate Change, Quality Education and Gender Equality. makes the documents available as downloads in PDF format with activities that are editable, so pupils can print and complete or fill-in digital worksheets directly
September 2013, the start of a new school year, a year that promises to be turbulent and exciting for students and teachers. The Minister’s announcement of Junior Cycle reform last October signalled a period of change and uncertainty for Geography teachers, accustomed to the certainty of the Junior Certificate syllabus
Training programme announcement for teachers interested in the recent publication Palestine and Israel – How will there be a Just Peace? launched in late 2013. _________________________________________________________________ Palestine and Israel: How will there be a Just Peace? is a Citizenship Education Resource for Transition Year and Key Stage 4, based on
For those that didn’t catch it, Development Education Day was run on the 15th February earlier this year in NUI Galway by Self Help Africa and supported by Irish Aid as a partnership event integrating Development Education as a much more significant component across all Initial Teacher Education programmes offered
‘Sometimes I wonder if I am making it worse, or making it better. Am I legitimising these causes? Or the opposite? Who knows?’ Who would have thought a post on a development education blog would have opened with a quote from Pamela Anderson? Not me, that’s for sure! But after
The honour bestowed in carrying the flame, kindled by eleven women using the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror in Olympia, Greece. The call to peace through the releasing of a flock of doves in the main stadium. The Queen parachuting into the opening ceremony
This six-minute video animation is currently doing the rounds online and builds on the pioneering research by economists Michael Norton and Dan Ariely about American attitudes toward wealth. The video details the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers.
Modern slavery takes many forms and is known by a number of names such as slavery, forced labour and human trafficking. Whichever term is used, they all carry the same characteristic of an individual being deprived of their freedom by someone: their freedom to leave one job for another, their
Here’s the latest roundup of videos we’ve been watching here at DevelopmentEducation.ie world HQ. ‘Price Tag’ lipdub by 500 women | Uganda Mircofinance.com is a site run by Dutch nongovernmental organisation SYPO who provide structural aid in Uganda. The website was started to support a microfinance project run by SYPO
We’re off to Maynooth this morning to take part in Development Education Week – an annual week of activities, seminars and training sessions packaged together for student teachers completing the professional diploma in education (PDip or PDE) for teaching at post primary level in Ireland. Many people typically view DE
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