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Junior Cycle Geography has not been kind to development education

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

Twelve takeaway messages from latest IPCC report on climate change

Blog written by Jonah Busch and cross-posted from the Center for Global Development (CGD, USA). This quick summary of the key messages from the report is useful for researchers, teachers, activists and students. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an extraordinary undertaking. Hundreds of scientists volunteer to put their

I’ve got some good news for you!

Around 40 volunteers hit the streets of Dublin and Cork last Friday to hand out copies of “The World’s Best News” – a free paper that compiles good global news and success stories about development cooperation. Progressio Ireland’s Communications Officer Franziska Fehr reflects on the day. ___________________________________________________________________ 6.15 My alarm

Top 10 videos from 2013

Using multimedia can be a great method for raising debate and discussion around a particular set of issues. Whether you are running a workshop, teaching a class, or just looking to brighten up a dreary Friday morning in mid-January, it is always useful to have a few in your back

The long fight for justice in Guatemala

Sally O’Neill reflects on Trócaire’s groundbreaking work in Guatemala which began over 30 years ago and the recent genocide trial of former dictator Rios Montt. It was 1982 and I was in Guatemala trying to meet a man called Frank La Rue. I had been given a piece of paper

The meaning of development from “The Menstrual Man”

I recently came across an intriguing article in the BBC on-line magazine entitled: ‘The Indian Sanitary Pad Revolutionary’. It tells the ‘real life’ story of “A school dropout from a poor family in southern India [who] has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple

‘Redrawing and re-writing’ World War 1

Developmenteducation.ie cartoonist Brick (aka John Clark) has teamed up with co-editor Jonathan Clode and 51 other contributors and graphic artists (including this author) to deliver a graphic anthology of 27 short stories on the First World War – To End All Wars  to be published July 2014 by Soaring Penguin.

Palestinians are not statistics (nor are Israelis!)

‘First, never will even the most impressive television footage properly capture the depth of fear and despair felt in the homes and hearts of Gazans who are yet again facing death, devastation and displacement. Thousands of parents today have no more answers to give to their young children when they

Notes from Hong Kong: a stunning answer to the cynics

It is genuinely humbling to walk from the ferry terminal towards Admiralty to the epicentre of the Umbrella Movement’s occupation site in Hong Kong. Amidst the upmarket hotels, limousines, banks and giant billboards glorifying global overconsumption are literally thousands and thousands of posters, post-its and slogans demanding, in stark contrast,

Celebrity activism: Stars combat global warming

Celebrities doing their bit for the planet? As brought to you by British satirical comic, the Viz. MORE: blog on the main arguments for and against celebrity activism: ‘Sometimes I wonder if I am making it worse, or making it better’ by Ciara Regan, 25th June 2012.

”The clanging chimes of Doom”…Oh no, wait, that’s just Bono

Thirty years on and Geldof is back. Again. He’s back with Ultravox’s Midge Ure and they’re asking, “how can they know it’s Christmas time?”: surely a progression from wondering “do they know it’s Christmas time at all?”. Band Aid returned on our tellyboxes on Saturday night on X Factor, no

Top 10 blogs on developmenteducation.ie in 2014

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 readers were interested in most. Some readers may be surprised by the blogs that made it into the top 10

Development Education: roots and values

Photo: third world exploitation poster spotted in Toronto (Jan 26, 2013) by Mary Crandall. CC NC-ND 2.0 license via Flickr Recent years have witnessed many ongoing calls for a ‘definitive definition’ of development education (DE) and failing that for abandoning the term in favour of, inter alia, human rights education,

The quality of teaching must be central to global education provision targets

“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

The world is watching as Ireland votes on marriage equality

Ireland is the first country in the world to put the question of same sex marriage to a public vote. Taking place tomorrow, the referendum presents voters with a choice whether the Constitution should be changed so as to extend civil marriage rights to same-sex couples. The proposed bill would

Connect for change – NYCI and UNICEF event for young people and the 2030 development agenda

Grace McManus reports from an event for Ireland’s post-millennials on preparing for the era of the sustainable development goals, organised by UNICEF Ireland and the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI). ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Three Friday’s ago a group of young people met in the lovely building of the ombudsmen for children, 

Econowha?

Econowha? Is an online educational resource that is available online for free. It is comprised of a 9 part lesson plan, featuring guest bloggers for each unit, things to read and watch, suggested learning outcomes and an online discussion space to aid the learning process. In our development education on

Africa rising is a false dawn

Ten years after The Economist declared that Africa was ‘a basket case’ it was back with another headline: ‘Africa Rising…the hopeful continent’. If Africa is rising can it continue to do so, or will the many problems it still faces render its rising ‘a false dawn’?

A User Guide for Primary Schools

Videos, photographs, cartoons, animations, current affairs, infographics …  this website is maintained with a wide range of material covering a range of global development themes and issues. Here are some suggested ways of using the website to build development education into your lessons plans: Take a look around – use

‘Unofficial Ireland and our sense of ourselves…’

They say the past tells us a lot about the present.  Queuing at immigration in the early morning at Lusaka International Airport in Zambia highlights the point. Having submitted my passport, the immigration officer comments ‘Ah, you’re Irish, I was taught by the brothers’ – no visa required for Irish

A reflection on my privilege

I decided to go in to the ‘refugees welcome’ protest last Saturday in Dublin, partly because I really care about this issue, partly because I knew I had to write this blog, and partly because, as my mom likes to joke, I love a good protest. I wondered who would

Infographic: which kind of activist are you?

Links mentioned in the infographic Read up on global issues, visit: World’s Best News www.dochas.ie/WBN The Guardian theguardian.com/global-development Inside Out: stories from a Developing World series on The Irish Times irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/inside-out Find out what you can do in response to humanitar­ian crises. Visit howyoucanhelp.ie Volunteer locally or volunteer online. Visit

Apptivism

Technology has changed activism. From public opinion campaigns to e-petitions, technology has changed the meaning of activism, and created a new sphere of online action brought right to one’s living room couch. It is easier now more than ever to take ten minutes out of your day and partake in