The site has a useful most-popular resources guide, updates on key issues (e.g. Ebola); a range of teacher supports (including stimulating ‘thinkpieces’), excellent tools and guides (e.g. on controversial issues) and an education focused blog. Despite being heavily focused on the English and UK curricula, the site has much to
Twice a year the Volunteers from the EIL Development Education Committee plan and deliver workshops intended to raise awareness about global issues among EIL Network members. The themes of the workshops are decided by a consensus decision of the committee, and everyone pitches in to bring the content together. In
This training curriculum is divided into five modues: Care work and the economy The care work context Care work and the human rights based approach Redistribution of unpaid care work for gender equality and justice Ideas for action Each module discusses core concepts in depth and issues are thoroughly dealt
Spotlight on South Sudan is an educational resource which uses the methodology of process drama to enable children to learn, through imagined experience, about life in South Sudan. South Sudan, the world’s youngest independent nation, faces tremendous challenges such as the ongoing conflict, extreme levels of poverty, internal displacement and
This document is comprehensive and addresses, in depth, Ireland’s Sustainable Development Policy. It covers actions of the government at every level down to the local. It contains some usable graphs to illustrate various points and subjects. Section one of this document is an introduction to the concept of sustainable development,
Written in an academic format, with full referencing, the 6 essays within this resource are as follows: Separating ‘development and inter cultural education’: meeting the needs of 21st-century Ireland The role of technology in addressing contemporary teaching and learning challenges Imaging of the South vs images from the South Beyond
The specific objectives of the research were to examine: The perceived importance of the Global Dimension at Initial Teacher Education level and primary school level before and after the course. The level of knowledge of key concepts relating to the global dimension and confidence in teaching them before and after
This booklet contains many helpful lesson plans and accompanying resources to begin teaching development education. The Main topics covered in this resource are: Section one: an introduction to development education Ubuntu Network Development Education Millennium Development Goals Section 2: group activity – stimulus pack Stimulus Discussion Activity for Each Group
The main themes/ issues covered in this resource are: Be the revolution Setting the Possibilities of a bolder and better Ireland Activism is.. Online action resources The Story of Richard Moore What’s Possible?’ submissions, taken from www.possibilities.ie We are the revolution Rat Race – Poetry, It’s up to us to
Topics covered in this resource: Exploring Diversity Perceptions and stereotypes Exploring equality Equality and the law Equality on the agenda Each lesson plan includes Learning Intentions, Resources Needed, and a description of the activities. Several of the lessons involve photos and video clips. The lesson plans are also explicitly linked
This report argues that climate change is linked to issues such as food production, access to water, health, migration, gender and the economy. The report takes The Philippines, Honduras,Kenya, Malawi and Ethiopia as case studies and discusses each in depth in the framework of the issues above. Each chapter outlines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA5kzfDl1w4 The world outside of the classroom is a lively place. Over the course of many years my 5th class in Clonburris National School, Clondalkin, has always been interested in bringing this outside world filled with human rights and themes, issues and debates such as fairtrade in the context of
Joint winner of the 2017 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie development issues blog series, Yukiko Suzuki explores development through a Japanese lens. When discussing development, it is most often measured by a country’s economic growth or through it’s performance based on the Human Development Index (HDI). Although developing countries have
Meet the Team Project Manager Tony Daly Tony is project manager at developmenteducation.ie. His is also co-ordinator of 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World and co-editor of 80:20 Development in an Unequal World. tony [at] developmenteducation.ie? @TonyKDaly Staff Writer Ciara Regan Ciara is staff writer at developmenteducation.ie and project
This resource is divided into three action plans, Fair Trade, Climate Change and Waste, that provide background information, activities, video resources and suggestions for actions that are designed for community groups. These activities were piloted in community settings in the South East of Ireland during 2016and 2017. Highlights action plans
Colm Regan reviews 5 books as part of his summer reading with recommendations for anyone interested in development and global learning. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel Fans of Hickel’s contributions to the Guardian newspaper will thoroughly enjoy this well-written, accessible and
Who we are Students: Senior Infants “Class of Legends”, St. Patricks Loreto National School, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland Teachers: Jean McDonnell and Clifton Rooney. What we did A Senior Infants class from St. Patricks Loreto National School, Bray, Co. Wicklow undertook to explore the Ocean as a theme for the
‘The rationale for junior cycle Business Studies recognises that ‘young people are growing up in a globalised and dynamic’ and ‘interconnected world’. Business Studies ‘explores the interdependence of economic prosperity, societal well-being and the environment and encourages students to think and act as responsible and ethical citizens’. The aim of
Toni Pyke (and her six year old son) reflect on what peace looks like, on International Day of Peace
Drought and Migration in Ethiopia is an educational resource which uses the methodology of process drama to enable children to learn, through imagined experience, about life in Ethiopia. The resource includes a scheme of work which contains five lesson plans. These lessons are designed to last an hour each utilise a
In the wake of the assassination of Malta’s most prominent investigative reporter, Daphne Caruana Galizia, we need to understand and address the underlying and deep-seated causes of Malta’s current predicament, says Omar Grech.
Resource Description ‘The recent rise of the far right has been partially attributed to the failure of progressive civil society to adequately reach, engage and involve many more marginalised communities. Those fed up with a status quo of global turbulence and inequality have been specifically targeted by groups seeking to
Resource contents: Introduction About the report What is development education The context in 2015 Development Education Actors and Audiences Development Education Activities Formal sector: Early years and Primary Post-Primary Higher Education Non-formal sector: Youth Adult & Community Resources for Development Education Funding for Development Education Priorities for 2016-2020
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 interested and engaged readers. As the scale of multiple global challenges converge on presidential terms, conflict zones, the environment and
Maternal mortality rates per 100,000 births are one of the most sensitive indicators of the ‘human rights’ balance sheet for women. The average maternal mortality rate for 2008 for those 5 countries with the highest rates (Afghanistan, Chad, Somalia, Guinea Bissau and Liberia was 1158 per 100,000 births. The equivalent
MDG Goal 7 (Ensure Environmental Sustainability) as it relates to water and sanitation aims by 2015 to halve the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The target, it seems was met in 2010, according to the UN. Yet also in 2010, some
What do we mean by literacy? UNESCO defines literacy as “…the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his or her
What is climate change? The term ‘climate change’ has been with us since the early part of the 19th century when scientists sought to define natural changes in the earth’s atmosphere and the discovery of the greenhouse effect. In the later part of the century the link between human actions
The Top 10 Biggest Food Companies Oxfam’s recent Behind the Brands campaign (2013) looks at the biggest food companies’ policies on issues from water to women, the way they expect their suppliers to behave on these issues, and what they do to measure and improve their impact on every worker
The UNAIDS Global Report UNAIDS Global Report on the epidemic estimated that in 2009, 33.3 million people worldwide are living with HIV, the overwhelming majority of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa, that is 22.5 million men, women and children. Estimates vary as to when and where HIV and AIDS originated.