Launched in September 2022, the third ‘audit’ of resources produced from Ireland on global issues for educational use is the largest in its scope and size to date.
Starting a new term, programme or learning cycle? Explore global citizenship and development education resources curated for your education setting, from schools and youth work to adult and community education, higher education and GCE practice. Found something useful? Save it in the Members Area and build your own collection for
Are you involved in development education / global citizenship education resource productions? Or would you like to be? Then this 1-hour online event is for you! *********POST UPDATE***** The deadline for written submissions to the consultation on Guidelines for Producing Development Education Resources has been extended to close of business
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.
Our Impact 2025 Workshop participants tackling media literacy and disinformation at the Worldwise Global Schools teacher conference in Castletown, Co. Laois (30th Jan 2025) From collaborative exhibitions and programme engagement to the development of resources, here’s a snapshot of developmenteducation.ie’s impact in 2025 The number of people directly engaged in
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A round-up of ideas, trends and entry points for anyone interested in producing Development Education / global citizenship education resources in adult and community education contexts
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
We are pleased to announce the publication of An Audit of Development Education Resources, now available online at https://www.developmenteducation.ie/audit/ Over a 5 month period the audit collected information on development education (DE) resources produced in Ireland since 2000 for both formal and non-formal education use. The sectors covered include: Junior
Launch of the third study of development education and global citizenship education resources in Ireland with 9 recommendations in formal and non-formal education in Ireland.
Learning to Change the World: An Audit of Development Education Resources in Ireland 2013-2016, follows on directly from the initial audit covering the period 2000 to 2012 and forms a baseline on development education and related ‘resources’ (activity packs, microsites, booklets etc.) as part of an expanding database of resources
The results are in from the most accessed resources of 2018 in the resources library, and the findings cover teaching packs, learning resources, videos and more
Are you involved in development education / global citizenship education resource production? Then this consultation is for you! This year developmenteducation.ie and the Irish Development Education Association are updating the Guidelines for Producing Development Education Resources to support the production of high-quality education resources on global issues. A short 1-hour
An Audit of Irish Development Education Resources is the first national study of development education resources produced over the period 2000-2012, broadly defined, that aims to record, annotate and ‘audit’ resources identified across all major education sectors in Ireland. The audit: Is based the study on 236 resources covering a
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Are you involved in development education resource production? Or would you like to be? Then this event is for you! This year, DevelopmentEducation.ie, in collaboration with Dóchas and IDEA, are producing a set of guidelines to support the production of DE resources in Ireland. These guidelines are a direct outcome
A year’s worth of web analytics, research, discussion and collaboration offer some interesting insights which may be of use to DE colleagues. Here, we share 8 of those lessons. 1. There are still many gaps in DE resource provision and therefore many opportunities (and needs) to fill them Despite the
This section includes a number of pieces that discuss and debate the MDGs per se and also other related issues: Do ‘Global Goals’ ever make a difference? – this piece from the UNDP Human Development Report for 2003 discusses the question and offers a number of examples of previous goals,
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The audit of development education resources produced in Ireland from 2000-2012 was included in the recent annual progress report from Irish Aid which reviewed Ireland’s official overseas aid programme and MDGs progress in 2013, launched earlier this month (report in full here). For those unfamiliar with the audit, we blogged
This week we launched the Guidelines for Producing Development Education Resources, with its own dedicated section online. Following the publication of Audit of Irish Development Education Resources research in April 2013, which looked at DE resources produced in Ireland over the period 2000-2012, the opportunity to develop a set of
It’s been a busy year. An extra 80 resources have filled the digital shelves of the resource library and many more are to follow over in 2015. Out of the 41,804 resource library pages viewed by web users in 2014 three themes have cropped up more than once in the
Note: The materials and resources listed here are primarily suited to ages 14+ and can be used in a wide variety of learning and teaching contexts. ‘It’s an ancient abuse, but it persists throughout the world today. Slavery remains one of the greatest human rights challenges of history. Today it’s
It’s early August and the summer break is well and truly underway: schools are closed; politicians take some much needed respite…
2019 was a busy year on a whole range of issues, ranging in everything from climate strike events across the world to fact checks and fighting hoaxes. Here’s the top 20 resources from the resources library developmenteducation.ie used in 2019.
Are you working in Adult and/or Community Education and interested in exploring further what resources are available to support your practice? Are you working in Adult and/or Community Education and interested in exploring further how to effectively create online resources that promote global citizenship? Are you working in Adult and/or
A 6-point guide by Ciara Regan on where to begin talking about war & conflict with young people about the unfolding Ukraine-Russia crisis.