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Post Primary Education

Curated content for: Post Primary Education Jump to: Resources Features Blog Posts Infographics Videos Resources More ‘Post Primary‘ Resources Features Blog Posts Apr15 Urgently needed and timely new resource from Afri Ciara Regan reviews Afri’s latest resource, Sowing Seeds of Peace, for post primary teachers which is adaptable and immediately

Higher Education

Curated content for: Higher Education Jump to: Resources Features Blog Posts Infographics Videos Resources More ‘Higher Education’ Resources Features Blog Posts Jan31 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

Development Travel Guide: Reflections on global development issues through my travels

Ellen Brennan’s  blog was a runner up in the 2015 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie Development Issues blog series. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. When I was 5 years old I made my first trip abroad to Nogales, Mexico, only one hour from my home in the US. Up until that point I had

Does using paid models change the ethics of sensationalised poverty media?

‘Sensationalised poverty media’ has usually been referenced as ‘poverty porn’ in discussions on development issues, but I have purposefully decided to not use this term as I find it a sensationalised term which distracts from the debate. Furthermore, it may be unsuitable for some readers of this blog. When I

Boycott of occupied territory settlement goods – a response

Fruit and Veg, Old City, Jerusalem by David Masters, Flickr (2008) Tony Daly responds to a range of the comments and feedback received by the authors based on a blog posted earlier this year with Colm Regan on the international boycott against settlement goods labelled as Israeli products from the

Doing Development Education: Ebola – resources and ideas

The past few weeks have witnessed an avalanche of discussion and debate on the 30th anniversary remake of Band Aid by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure with its emphasis on the Ebola crisis which threatens to become, according to Oxfam ‘the definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation’. In typical swashbuckling

10 quotes that changed the way we look at the world

The Huffington Post recently included what it considers the Top 10 quotes  from various ‘leaders’ across the globe that “in some way changed how humanity looks at the world.” This list includes quotes that commemorate historical moments/actions that impacted on the global landscape, through political reforms, scientific revolutionary discoveries, human

Women & Development

The role of women in developing countries, as explored throughout this module, has been recognised as the single most important factor when it comes to bringing about and sustaining long term social change.

The Zambian Chipolopolo Boys win for Africa

Photo source: Truly Zambian The story of the weekend goes to Zambia: the once written-off underdog of African football – the Chipolopolo Boys** or Copper Bullet Boys – upset the clear favourites of the Africa Cup of Nations tournament (AFCON) by beating the Ivory Coast in the final in an

22 students challenge ‘poverty porn’ story in Times of Malta

When writing about Africa we are told: Among your characters you must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of the West. Her children have flies on their eyelids and pot bellies, and her breasts are flat and empty. She

Look at the MGDs from an Irish perspective: A One World Week report

Workshop experiences at the Kerry One World Centre draw the attention of participants to look at the MDGs from an local Irish perspective before taking during One World Week 2012. One World Week is a week of youth-led awareness raising, education and action that takes place throughout Ireland during the

14 videos on our international food system and why it needs to change

In the lead up to World Food Day on October 16, Tony Daly presents 14 videos related to food, covering food waste, food production, energy and solution-based ideas that go against the grain. This blog forms part of the #ZeroHunger series, brought to you by the Professional Development Support Service

P.E.P.Y. (Promoting Equality for Palestinian Youth)

P.E.P.Y. is a mini NGO we created project as part of the wider Mini-NGOs in schools: the Global Citizens Network Project organised by Schools Across Borders in the 2013. The Transition Year students began by looking at various social justice issues and they voted on one that they felt they

Junior Cycle User Guide

Development education is a cross curricular activity. That’s not to say that it can’t be taught in a single subject area – many teachers use DE as part of completing curriculum strands or as stimulus material for energising students or building class projects. DE can be flexibly used in many

First World Problems…for Irish college students

Ciara Molloy‘s blog was a runner up in the 2015 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie Development Issues blog series. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… For a middle-class, native Irish college student born in the 1990s, development is a relative concept. Having not been immersed in a developing country or experienced the conditions of life

10,000 missing children in Europe

  The refugee crisis is actually worse than we hear, talk about and even imagine.  Almost half of the world’s displaced people are children.  According to the EU’s criminal intelligence agency, refugee children are targets of criminals in the sex abuse and slavery. It is utterly disturbing that we can’t even

The debt crisis and how to make a ‘Third World’ economy

Vicky Donnelly reflects on working with third-level students on the issue of debt justice. Working with third-level students last year on the issue of debt justice, we considered Thomas Sankara’s powerful portrayal of the debt as a weapon, wielded by “technical assassins”, as part of a, “cleverly managed reconquest of

It is impossible to ignore or turn off from these events

Wow! What a year it’s been so far, and judging by the daily news feeds across mainstream and social media – ‘it ‘ain’t over, not by a long shot,’ as the American’s might say. While we continue to reel over the realities and future uncertainties of what ‘Brexit’ may pose

Human Rights Day – live!

Follow the Human Rights Day 2020 live-blog for happenings and activities throughout the day during a time of unprecedented change during the first year of a Covid-19 world

Let’s talk about the Amber Heard v Johnny Depp trial

2 actors, one trial and a Billion hashtags. What happens when the media gets a hold of a woman on trial? This blog takes a look at the reaction to the Heard v Depp trial and what it reveals about women’s representation.

Post-Primary

Curated content for: Post-Primary Jump to: Resources Features Blog Posts Infographics Resources More ‘Post Primary’ Resources Features Blog Posts May09 Workshop: A teachers’ guidebook to ‘greenwashing’ Author of the teacher’s guidebook, Rachel Elizabeth Kendrick, will lead a session on the 3 big ideas and teaching methods published as a 3-part

Global Hunger Index 2019: The challenge of hunger and climate change

The 2019 GHI measures hunger in 117 countries where the assessment is most relevant and where data on all four component indicators are available. 43 countries out of 117 countries have levels of hunger that remain serious 4 countries Chad, Madagascar, Yemen, and Zambia suffer from hunger levels that are