Breaking Barriers
Fabric crafts and poetry: the art of development education in Canada University of Victoria, Canada
New forms of development education are emerging in Canada. These aim to engage people in critical dialogue by creating new lenses through which to see and explore the world. Budd Hall and Darlene Clover look at the importance of innovative learning models through examples of arts/crafts-based development education in Canada.
Never the twain shall meet?: breaking barriers through a global citizenship partnership between NGO’s and a higher education institution University of Glasgow/IDEAS
As part of DFID’s work to look at how initial teacher education and training might be used to effect longer term changes in the attitudes of teachers towards global development issues, four projects were funded in the UK. In this article Harry Blee, Alan Britton, Bob Davies and Ben Young examine the project partnership between the University of Glasgow Faculty of Education and the International Development Education Association of Scotland.
Development education in higher education: ethnographic research as a development education methodology University of Limerick
Roland Tormey and Marie Kiely explore the capacity to use the process of learning to carry out ethnographic research as a vehicle for enabling students to learn, in an active way, the core thinking skills of development education, in higher education.
Breaking barriers though children’s global arts University of Victoria, Canada
Fostering transformative learning requires a renewed vision for education and challenges students and educators to assess and redefine their roles, practices and worldviews. Nadine Cruickshanks explores the experience of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, in Canada with their new ‘Children’s Global Art’ project.
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