Curated content for:
Primary Education
Jump to:
Resources
Features
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
Punching above its weight
What does Palestine have to do with Africa?
Invoking of Article 99 by the UN Secretary General – what does it mean?
Solving the climate crisis means ending our addiction to economic growth
A 5-point starter guide to doing global citizenship education
Infographics
Videos
Natural Born Settlers
How can Africa improve the quality of life for Africans and not other continents?
A Fair World for Children
Women at Work
I am Congo – another Congo
The Prohibition Game
How to talk about Africa
The Autocomplete Truth
