Centre for Global Education & Comhlámh invite you to an online seminar titled:
Development Education and Hope
Wednesday, 14 January 2026
12.00pm - 1.30pm (via Zoom)
Speakers:
Benedict Arko
(Lecturer, Department of Geography Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana)
Elizabeth Meade
(Lecturer, Global Citizenship Education, Department of Education, Maynooth University)
Gerard McCann
(Professor of International Studies and Principal Lecturer, St. Mary’s University College, Belfast)
About this Event
This event has been organised to present and debate the content of Issue 41 of the Centre for Global Education’s bi-annual, open access, peer reviewed journal Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review. The theme of this issue is ‘Development Education (DE) and Hope’ which reflects on how as educators we can maintain our activism, solidarity and optimism as multiple crises impact our world. The speakers at the session will be three of the authors who published articles in Issue 41. They will present their papers and debate their content with global education and higher education practitioners. The event will be held on Zoom and pre-registration on Eventbrite is essential for participants. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/development-education-and-hope-webinar-tickets-1974263128162?aff=oddtdtcreator
The three papers to be presented and the authors are as follows:
Elizabeth Meade: Cultivating Collective Hope Against a Culture of Individualism
Gerard McCann: Philosophical Sources of Pedagogy of Hope
This seminar has been funded by:
