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
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
I love coffee. I love good coffee, and have come to the conclusion that I am a coffee snob. I am so addicted – to “good” coffee that is – that I even have the necessary tools to make up my own latte, cappuccino, mocha, you name it, at home
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,
Tomorrow is the closing date on NYCI’s blog/article competition for young people aged 18-30 years. The theme for the competition is – The European Year for Development 2015: How has Europe contributed to development in the world? Get writing! More info at www.youth.ie/eyd
The 6 arguments were prepared by developmenteducation.ie as a discussion document toward the review of the Irish Aid Development Education Programme being conducted by GENE (Global Education Network Europe) taking place in 2015 and was circulated at the consultation event at Farmleigh House (Dublin) on 29th April. The review process
“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
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
The danger of a single story In an increasing environment where there appears to be insufficient time and intolerance in considering the ‘story’ of another, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie TED talk (with nearly 9 million views!!) is brilliant in alerting us to the ‘danger of a single story’ and warns that
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? 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
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’?
The 20 page briefing paper, Living in the Hollow of Plenty: World Hunger Today and its accompanying support activities are part of the Food Rights Now education and awareness campaign and is designed to provide a set of briefing notes on: different dimensions of world hunger today (definition, measurement, who’s
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
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
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
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
Ah yes, this blog fell (unfortunately) onto my lap. Growing up as a child we had a Jetta, a Golf, a Polo and of course a Beetle. These cars were among the most reliable vehicles on the road. ‘They last forever,’ is what the most serious mechanic would chant. I
The 2015 tallies are in and visitors voted with their clicks as the results from the most popular blogs from the year are in. As expected, the Sustainable Development Goals featured strongly which were agreed in September at the United Nations, as well as rising issues such as the biggest
Peadar Cremin – teacher, lecturer in education; professor, college president, curriculum developer, activist, colleague and close friend sadly died on November 30th last year. As a tribute to him and his work in development education and related areas, we are publishing four blogs – the initial one below by Colm
Well hats of Pirelli for taking a lead! (although Playboy did stop nudity in its mag last year). In a daring move from its traditional nude…
Deirdre Walsh reports on making the journey to Calais as part of the Ireland Calais Refugee Solidarity convoy in October 2015.
Tom O’Connor reports from County Kajiado, Kenya, on a local community’s response to female genital mutilation (FGM). Sometimes in life, we get an opportunity that 99% of other people will never experience; a chance to meet somebody who you regard as an inspiration, a hero. It is one of those
This blog was written to stimulate discussion at an Irish Development Education Association seminar in Dublin on 4th May 2016. It is based upon my own thinking about what has been achieved over the past three decades, some trends and patterns I see dominating at the moment (not all positive)
1. Still The Most Shocking Second A Day Video (child refugees) Following on from their most shocking second a day video in 2014, this video from Save The Children highlights the ongoing story of a typical unaccompanied refugee child journeying from Syria
Toni Pyke reflects on breastfeeding, Feminism and social media during World Breastfeeding Week 2016 (1 – 7 August). ……………………………………………….. In what continues to be popularly referred to as the ‘developed’ ‘North’ or ‘West,’ we take it for granted that we have the freedom to exercise our democratic rights – rights
Ciara Regan takes stock of a key UNICEF report during World Breastfeeding Week 2016 (1 – 7 August). The majority of people are well aware of the incredible health benefits of breastfeeding for a baby. I consider myself to have been incredibly fortunate to have had no problems when breastfeeding
This project aimed to bring primary school student participants on a learning journey about the effects of climate change, and how they have the power to take action for climate justice, so that they felt empowered to raise awareness in their community through creative expression of their hopes and dreams
Duncan Green’s How Change Happens (Oxford University Press 2016) is an excellent resource for a variety of conceptual and practical reasons. It is also a book of, and for, our times, not only for its perceptive analysis of the change process as perceived by activists but also as a potential
John, Daniel and Panther were part of the 25,000 “Lost Boys” who fled war-torn Sudan, walking for five years to get to a Kenyan refugee camp after the outbreak of the second Sudanese civil war in 1983. Travelling barefoot across the sub-Saharan desert, the three had formed surrogate families and
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