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’.
We’re big fans of the excellent website Our World in Data
In this second part of our series Living Between Trains and Drains, we explore the daily struggles and global realities of informal settlement living, with a focus on life in Namuwongo ‘slum’ in the city of Kampala in Uganda.
Maynooth Green Campus (MGC) is a strategic coalition between Maynooth University (MU), St Patrick’s College Maynooth (SPCM) and Trócaire that seeks to promote environmental sustainability and climate justice.
It’s that time of the year again when news bulletins start carrying pieces on homelessness, or elderly people living alone, and weather forecasters start early predictions of whether or not it will snow on Christmas Day.
Project Us hosts coffee conversations all over the island of Ireland, generating discussing and an exchange of ideas on how Ireland can contribute to a more sustainable world for all by 2030
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.
Covid-19 highlights the importance of our Global Citizenship and Development Education. A 3-part series.
Continuing the global citizenship journey, here are 6 education initiatives from Ireland that have been adapted to take place during Covid-19 learning contexts.
Ireland’s programme has a history as well as a politics. We need to have some appreciation of these if we are to protect, support and even expand it, especially in what are likely to be rocky and difficult times in the years immediately ahead.
County councils are vital as leaders in ethical practices in communities and as reminders of the global footprint of natural resources they use and the many people connected to that use, argues Tom Roche
4 facts and 4 graphics about the state of food in the world today
Join us on Thurs 11th February for an open discussion with Olive Towey and Sophie Healy-Thow to find out what’s happening at the summit and how you can play a role in transforming how we produce and consume food, and meeting the challenges of climate change.
Gina Dorso explores food security in Puerto Rico, as a U.S. territory, from the perspective of an Irish American
The Global YOUth – Journey to Act! and its 13 activities are designed to make it as easy as possible for you to look at the big issues with your group. No matter if you are short on time, or don’t feel you have enough knowledge – there is something
Political cartoonist Martyn Turner is one of the great chroniclers of modern Irish history
Nell Kelly of Aidlink presents a short guide on how schools can mark the occasion as part of water action month.
It’s not every week that your work gets selected to join an international event such as the World Expos. World exhibitions, which first emerged in 1851 as ‘World Fairs’ (the term ‘Expo’ was introduced in the 1960s) played an important role in bringing the world together at regular intervals to
What do ‘applied education’ and science projects look like in practice? Aisling Halligan reports on the Science for Development initiative led by Self Help Africa.
Fighters are using hunger as a weapon. It’s why South Sudan’s famine is man-made.
Global hunger is at record levels and rising, according to the latest figures from the UN.
Africa has a wealth of resources in its people and natural resources yet social protection programmes have very low coverage and are underfunded – an animation by Afrodad
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on whatsapp Share on email An infographic on World Food Day 2023, based on the latest data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Check out the World Food Day round-up by Ciara Regan, which includes new facts, features
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on whatsapp Share on email Sonraí: UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Check out the World Food Day round-up by Ciara Regan, which includes new facts, features and interactives for teaching and learning based on key drivers of world hunger
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