“Explores how Confirmation can play a key part in the development of global citizens in Ireland and examines how God, through Confirmation, can help and equip us to help to be more active citizens” The teaching resource Confirming Hope: Is split into 4 sessions that each includes: an SDG, Team
Growing the Future supports teachers and students to understand the current issues facing families and communities in Zimbabwe, primarily food security, but also climate change and Covid-19. The activities focus on understanding the current situation, but also looking to the future, and encouraging students to come up with solutions for
Cabhraíonn an acmhainn seo leis na hoidí is na daltaí na fadhbanna atá ag na teaghlaigh is na pobail sa tSiombáib, a thuiscint. Is iad seo daingne bhia, athrú aeráide agus Covid-19. Dírítear na gníomhaíochtaí ar thuiscint a fháil faoi chúrsaí reatha, agus smaoineamh ar straitéis a chuirfí i bhfeidhm
This resource is for post primary school teachers who wish to facilitate understanding of the interconnection between war and hunger. The Resource itself is divided into several sections, beginning with an exploration of the importance of the United Nations. Other themes covered include the Sustainable Development Goals. Afri has added
In 2000 the UN Millennium Declaration was adopted at the largest ever meeting of heads of state and committed those countries – rich and poor – to doing all they could to eradicate poverty. Promote human dignity and equality and achieve peace, democracy and environmental sustainability. World leaders agreed to
Source: Global Hunger Index (2013) by Concern Worldwide.
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
Obtaining up-to-date information, facts, figures as well as case studies and viewpoints on important current development and human rights issues has never been easier. Apart from being available on the Internet, such materials are easily accessed through a number of important international reports which are published annually or bi-annually. This
Today, 346 million Africans, more than a quarter of the continent’s people, are suffering from hunger because of conflict, drought and poverty. A Counting The Cost
Your company might have donated money to help solve humanitarian issues, but you could have something even more useful to offer: your data. Mallory Freeman shows us how private sector companies can help make real progress on big problems.
Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN’s World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry, still die of starvation, still use food as a weapon of war
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.
A guidebook to support teachers and students in learning about greenwashing as a barrier to sustainable development.
Taken over a ten years, Tom Stoddard’s iWitness exhibition is a witness to some of the most intense humanitarian disasters the world has seen.
No better time to consider what’s on and off our plate than in the wake of the European horsemeat scandal. Had you ever, prior to this, stopped to take account of what you are buying and eating – and wasting? Continuing on my quest to convert to a sustainable lifestyle,
My husband Amos and I ‘stay’ in Inyathi district Ward 15. Three years ago, we both tested positive for HIV.
Source: Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education (DCU) and Trócaire (2017). Download: PDF version (3.56MB) Watch the Leaving Home animation produced by CHRCE and Trócaire
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
Welcome to the rundown of the 20 most popular resources by visitors on developmenteducation.ie across 2020, based on downloads.
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
Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died a month ago. But what’s her legacy? Was this champion of personal wealth, privatisation of state industry and spokesperson for free-market economics justified in her policies? More than 20 years later the costs of her convictions are still being debated around the world.
Development education is driven by a desire to bring about a sustainable and just world, where people are empowered to overcome poverty and hunger and fully realise their rights and potential. This strategy seeks to increase the accessibility, quality and effectiveness of development education in Ireland. It aims to see
San áireamh: An fáth a bhfuil sé tábhachtach a bheith ag smaoineamh faoin ocras domhanda Naisc chuig na Spriocanna Forbartha Inbhuanaithe Féachtar leis an bhfírinne a scagadh ón mbréag maidir le saincheisteanna tábhachtacha a bhaineann le forbairt, cearta an duine agus ceartas leis an tsraith 10 Miotas maidir le…
What do fashion companies and EU lobbying have to do with greenwashing, but don’t know where to begin your learning journey? Part three in the series by Rachel Elizabeth Kendrick
‘Overpopulation’ advocates claim that unsustainable increases in global population are the root of almost all of the major problems facing us today. Are they right? What the Fact? investigates.
Markwin Kobus presents an eye witness account as a volunteer at the ‘Jungle’ refugee camp near the French port of Calais through photos and diary extracts he recorded between 28 February and 3rd March in 2016, originally published in the South Dublin/Wicklow Calais Solidarity Public Group. Day 1 The first
The majority of the world’s 7 billion people live in urban areas. More than one billion of these – or one in three urban residents – live in inadequate housing with no, or only a few basic resources such as access to safe water or sanitation, refuse collection, etc. Generally,
Continuing the global citizenship journey, here are 6 education initiatives from Ireland that have been adapted to take place during Covid-19 learning contexts.
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