A starter guide – talking to young people about war in Ukraine
9th Mar 2022
A 6-point guide by Ciara Regan on where to begin talking about war & conflict with young people about the unfolding Ukraine-Russia crisis.
A 6-point guide by Ciara Regan on where to begin talking about war & conflict with young people about the unfolding Ukraine-Russia crisis.
Here’s a run down of 5 teaching resources on the impact of Covid-19 that you have to check out. A list, introduced by Ciara Regan.
Literacy today is about more than reading words. It is also about understanding the information around us. Asking where it comes from, what evidence supports it, what may be missing and how we can check what we are being told. For International Literacy Day, we are revisiting four DevelopmentEducation.ie resources
This section provides ideas and methodologies for using various types of resources, such as photographs and political cartoons, to explore a range of issues in an accessible manner. In this section: Political Cartoons Photographs Maps Statistics International Reports Case Studies Information Technology Using political cartoons in development and human rights
Explore the Ebola health crisis from debates on celebrity activism to what caused this crisis, what its effects are and how it can be tackled
A primer on doing development education.
The Guidelines for Producing Development Education Resources were jointly produced by developmenteducation.ie, the Development Education Working Group of Dóchas and the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA) following a national consultation in spring 2014. They have been designed to act as a supportive and practical tool for anyone to use –
‘Meet Copequito the ant from Honduras. In the local community where we work, Copequito has a vital job – to save lives. Copequito prepares children to react when a flood or hurricane hits.’ Trócaire’s resources for Lent 2017 build on resources from previous years, with a specific country focus of
Links for Teachers: Education resources focused on Trees and Sustainability: beagleproject.org Environmental education resources: epa.ie Climate change adaptation resource from the UK Department of Environment and Rural Affairs – defra.gov.uk Education resources on a range of topics provided by the UK Science Museum: sciencemuseum.org Recommended Videos: Earth Day – Give
Submit or recommend resources to be included in the Ireland-wide audit of development education and global citizenship education resources.
A selection of links to other information relating to the Team Planet resource.
The capacity building programme aimed to engage tutors in learning and teaching about Development Education (DE) in existing adult education programmes. The DEBATE Project developed a number of supports to build the capacity of tutors, including: The design and delivery of “Introduction to DE Workshops” to raise awareness and understanding
Development education is a cross curricular activity. That’s not to say that it can’t be taught in a single subject area – many teachers use DE as part of completing curriculum strands or as stimulus material for energising students or building class projects. DE can be flexibly used in many
Contrary to popular belief, even in the midst of this global financial crisis, Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) levels now stand at an all-time high of $135 billion (2013). The key point of this report is that that the context of global poverty is changing dramatically, and a new and innovative
Marjorie Laville-Pain of 80:20 interviewed Fr. Michael J. Kelly in Zambia for www.developmenteducation.ie. During the interview Michael talks to her about what motivates him to continue his work in the area – the motivation and dignity of those infected and affected by the pandemic. He discusses how he believes the pandemic should be tackled
The Guidelines for Producing Development Education Resources are offered to development educators, teachers, youth workers, writers and development workers in non-governmental organisations as a stimulus tool for planning and producing resources. The Guidelines were jointly produced by developmenteducaiton.ie, the Development Education Working Group of Dóchas and the Irish Development Education
Welcome to the rundown of the 20 most popular resources by visitors on developmenteducation.ie across 2020, based on downloads.
The third audit of Development Education resources in Ireland draws on resources identified during the four-year period 2017 – 2020. A number of key events, updates and contexts in development and education have impacted on the style, content and focus areas of resource developments. Taken together, these events paint a
Each resource in this collection is accompanied by a brief summary and teaching notes. The resources are in a variety of formats, such as explainer/broader context articles, short videos, podcasts, documentaries, graphs and maps, migrant stories, as well as non-migrant impact stories. They also often amplify migrant voices. There are
The second edition of the Guidelines to Produce Development Education and Global Citizenship Education Resources expands on the first edition and aims to support the skills, awareness and confidence of resource writing teams. This edition, in particular: Introduces the Sustainable Development Goals as a framework that contributes towards education for
World Refugee Day takes place each year on 20 June. To mark the day, we’ve gathered five resources from the DevelopmentEducation.ie library to support teachers, educators, youth workers and learners exploring refugees, migration, Direct Provision, children’s rights, solidarity and action. Refugees and migration are often discussed through numbers, headlines and
In 2013, the theme for OWW was ‘The World Young People Want’. One World Week is a week of youth-led awareness raising, education and action that takes place throughout Ireland during the third week in November every year and links into the EU Global Education Week. During One World Week
Ten years ago the UN Development Programme reported that population growth and economic development would lead to nearly one in two people in Africa living in countries facing water scarcity or what is known as ‘water stress’ within 25 years. That Africans could be sitting on a huge fresh water
Happy New Year to our readers (teachers, students, newbies and veterans)! For those out there who have been wondering why we’ve been laying low these past few months you will be interested to know that we’ve been hard at work on a research project seeking to audit development education resources produced in Ireland from 2000-2012.
It’s that time of the year again where teachers and readers have their say to help us improve DevelopmentEducation.ie by taking part in our short online survey. Those who complete the survey will be in with the chance of winning a free hamper of development education resources and some fair
Six days from now we will have used up our ecological budget for 2015. Our ecological footprint is how much we demand from nature. Presently, we consume 1.6 planets worth of earth’s resources. Overshoot occurs when: HUMANITY’S ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT > EARTH’S BIOCAPACITY Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s
Currently, we are (over)dependent on fossil fuels to heat our homes, run our cars, power our offices, industry and manufacturing, and respond to our insatiable desire to power all of our electrical goods
Governance developmenteducation.ie is an on-line hub that supports the online dissemination of development education (DE) and global citizenship education (GCE) resources and is a digital toolbox of materials for teachers, educators and trainers led by a consortium of NGOs in partnership with support from Irish Aid. The developmenteducation.ie Consortium are
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced now with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late…We may cry out desperately for time to
In the third part of the series John Dornan and Suzanne Bunniss review faith groups and action over many years on environmental issues such as climate change, sustainability and our collective responsibilities to each other on a shared planet