Below are a number of expert commentaries about the vulnerabilities of women: Edith Ng’oma works with the Forum for African Women Educationalists of Zambia, an NGO advocating for change in the Zambian education system and more broadly on the needs of girls and women. Dr. Carolyn Bolton works with CIDRZ
Gender-related Development Index (GDI – see definition below) Zambia is ranked 124th of 137 countries on the GDI (in the bottom 10%) 26% of women have secondary or higher education as against 44% of men and female labour market participation is 60% against 79% for men The GDI in 2009
Five quick-fire activities to get you started on teaching the issues, the debates and key ideas around World Food Day, by Colm Regan. // 2020 UPDATE: Is world hunger increasing or decreasing? Take the Great World Food Day Quiz 2020 Read, watch, act – updated teaching activity ideas, by Toni
In this resource you will find interesting games and lessons for your students to get to grips with the new Sustainable Development Goals and tangible actions they can take on them in their community. The booklet provides information and three activities to explore the origins of the global goals, their
Development Education – FAQs for teachers and facilitators is a guide about how to incorporate discussion of global issues such as gender, climate change and poverty into your subject area. Development education aims to encourage young people to reflect on the challenges our world faces and consider solutions to these
No Poverty – Educational resource for teachers and facilitators features information, statistics and activities to address the issue of poverty in the world. Activities introduce the concept of needs, wants as well as the impact of poverty on the lives of people globally. Key learning outcomes: Know what poverty is
#BeyondTheClick is a development education toolkit for educators that supports exploration of digital landscapes and tools (social media, digital tools etc.) and how these can be used to in education for sustainable development in a human rights and justice context in a world of deep (and deepening ) inequality. This
The results are in for the most popular blogs of the year on developmenteducation.ie , which has been marked by the second year of a Trump presidency, a signal flare of public attention towards issues such as plastics, anniversaries such as franchise for women, marked by the centenary of increased voting rights
The 2019 theme ‘Leave No One Behind,’ invites teachers and pupils to learn about the Global Goals and the work of Irish Aid in partner countries. Schools are supported with: Child-friendly resources, like the very popular 12-page pupil’s magazine Curriculum-linked teaching materials to help teachers deliver across the primary curriculum
The annual survey is one of the driving forces in listening to our readers who get to share views, ideas and suggestions on how we should work and what features we should focus on. Sharing videos, developing hands-on workshops, covering general global development issues – these (and more) have come
The guidelines outline the policy framework for engaging with older people in development and key factors associated with working with older people, before presenting introductory guidance for organisations to consider in their work. This guidance addresses external action and programming, the role of advocacy and considerations for organisations’ internal systems
The resource aims to: Develop children’s self-esteem and their own self-worth by exploring what makes them unique. Build on children’s understanding of themselves through their relationships with others and specifically our relationships with the global south. Explore how we make decisions and choices, especially around consumerism and how these can
Fáilte roimh rannóg na Gaeilge ar developmenteducation.ie This section is an Irish-language reference point for resources, ideas and debates on global development issues. Ár nDomhan Inniu is for and by the Irish-language community. Get in touch with features suggestions, projects and pitch ideas. We’d love to hear from you! (contact
Thérèse Hegarty and Patricia Kennon explore picturebooks in learning contexts and how they encourage discussions of friendship, conflict, struggle, norms, points of view, difference and injustice in a distanced way, therefore allowing sensitive issues to be discussed without direct disclosures about the children’s own lives.
In a digital world packed with fake news and fact checkers, is there a need for another one? Before continuing any further, four reference points are worth noting. 83% of 26,000 people that took part in a European-wide Eurobarometer survey last year view ‘fake news is a danger to democracy’.
On the 14th of March 2016, Dublin-based artist/activist Will St Ledger installed a fake, un-exploded missile on South King Street in Dublin to mark the fifth anniversary of the Syrian crisis.
In investigating their lived experiences, young people from primary school Scoil Eoghan in Donegal worked with educators Donna McFeely and Grainne O’Neill to prepare for the transition to secondary school by to explore the importance of resilience and wellbeing for participating in the world as a global citizen.
developmenteducation.ie recently spoke with an old friend and colleague Phil Glendenning, director of the Edmund Rice Centre in Sydney and now president of the Refugee Council of Australia, about Australia’s offshore and onshore asylum seeker detention system.
Toni Pyke explores what eight countries accounted for two thirds of the total number of people facing acute food insecurity in 2018.
This short film launched in October 2019 by Gerry McColgan and Garry Walsh of Trócaire, visits the community of Azacualpa to hear their story, and explains why Trócaire is campaigning for a UN treaty that would force international companies to respect human rights in their operations.
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
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