The Centre for Global Education is delivering a new Irish Aid supported three year capacity-building project in the North and South of Ireland with the aim of enhancing practice, improving communication and strengthening capacity in the development education sector.
The project consists of three key activities:
A bi-annual development education journal: Policy and Practice: a development education review
An annual conference
A bi-annual series of seminars
More details on each of these is given below.
Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review
The project produces a bi-annual Journal to facilitate reflection and discourse on global education practice in Ireland. In Autumn of 2009, Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review made the transition to online, open-access journal. The journal features in-depth contributions on aspects of global education practice such as methodologies, monitoring and evaluation, the production of resources, enhancing organizational capacity, strategic interventions in education, and sectoral practice. The journal aims to celebrate and promote existing good practice in global education, inform the work of practitioners in new or under-developed organizations by offering exemplars of good practice and to promote global education within the statutory education sector in Ireland.
Please click hereto find out more information about the current issue, upcoming themes, article abstracts, contributor guidelines and subscription rates.
Global Education Conference
The project also involves organising an annual global education conference with the aim of bringing together practitioners from Ireland, Britain, the European Union and overseas. The principle objectives of the conference are to share practice in development education and to facilitate in-depth discussion on aspects of development education delivery. The conference also works to learn from the experiences of overseas (EU and developing world) practitioners and to strengthen links between development NGOs in the north and south of Ireland.
2009 Conference: New Possibilities: How Development Education can Engage with a Wider Audience
The 2009 conference was our most successful to date, taking place Thursday, 12 March 2009 in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin. Austin Gormley, Councillor of the Development Education Unit of Irish Aid, and Doug Bourn, Director of the Development Education Research Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London, delivered practical keynote addresses geared toward analysing the state of development education today and ways forward. Various workshops addressed new target audiences with which to engage and explored new methodologies.
2008 Conference: Re-imagining Development Education
The 2008 conference was a great success, taking place Wednesday, 9 April 2008 at St. Mary's University College. Will Haire, Permanent Secretary for the Department of Education in NI, and Dr. Balwant Singh, Regional Director for Save the Children, South and Central Asia made moving and inspirational keynote speeches, and the workshops offered an in-depth look at a variety of methods and perspectives to shift and better development education practices in Ireland.
The conference report is available by clicking here. For more details on this event, or about the Capacity Building project, please contact Jenna Coriddi: jenna@centreforglobaleducation.com.
2007 conference: The Changing Landscape of Development Education The 2007 conference took place on Thursday 8th March 2007 10.30am – 3.30pm at St Mary’s University College, Belfast. The theme of this year's event was "The changing landscape of development education" . The conference key issues of development education and climate change, conflict, solidarity, the media, campaigning and critical thinking.
To download the full conference report please click here.
2006 Conference: Dynamic Relations with the Global South
The 'Development Education Conference' took place on Wednesday 22nd of February 2006 and was organised by the Centre for Global Education. It was aimed at development practioners from all sectors and included keynote speakers and detailed breakout sessions covering a range of topics.
To download the full conference report pleaseclick here.
To see pictures of the conference please click here.
The third component of the project is a series of development education seminars to help increase the capacity of development education practitioners. The aim of the seminars is to work with existing development education practitioners in both the North and South of Ireland in a series of issue based workshops, focussing on relavant issues and topics for practitioners.
Workshop Report: NGO and academic partnership: Writing for Policy & Practice Facilitated by Lawrence Cleary, Jenna Coriddi and Stephen McCloskey To download the report of this workshop, please click here
Workshop Report: Development Education and Campaigning: Friends or Foes? Facilitated by Iain Atack, Harry Browne and Fleachta Phelan To download the report of this workshop, please click here
Workshop Report: Teaching Global Issues in the Classrooms: Exploring New Perspectives Facilitated by Matthias Fiedler, Audrey Bryan and Lesley McEvoy To download the report of this workshop, please click here
L-R: Matthias Fiedler, Audrey Bryan, Lesley McEvoy and Jenna Coriddi
Workshop Report: Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry Faciliatated by Vanessa Andreotti, Linda Barker and Laiz Chen To download the report of this workshop, please click here
Workshop Report: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina Facilitated by Marina Sitrin To download the report of this workshop, please click here
Workshop Report: Getting in DEEEP! Facilitated by Adam Davies To download the report of this workshop, please click here
Workshop Report: Creative Partnerships: Development Education & Black and Minority Ethnic Communities Facilitated by Vipin Chauhan To download the report of this workshop, please click here
Workshop Report: Monitoring and evaluation 24th Nov 2006 Facilitated by Phyllis Thompson, DEA To download the report of this workshop, please click here
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