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Development Education: Learning for Transformation

Date: 
Wednesday 18 November 2026

Centre for Global Education & Comhlámh invite you to an online seminar titled:

Development Education: Learning for Transformation

Wednesday, 18 November 2026|12.00 – 1.30pm (online)

Registration

This event is free but registration is essential. To register please click here: 

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/development-education-learning-for-transformation-tickets-2003072127655?aff=oddtdtcreator

Speakers:

Benjamin Mallon

(Assistant Professor, Dublin City University) (Chair)]

Marta da Costa

(Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University)

Anne M. Dolan

(Associate Professor, Mary Immaculate College)

Giulia Filippi

(Research Fellow, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

About the Webinar

This event has been organised to present and debate the content of Issue 43 of the Centre for Global Education’s bi-annual, open access, peer reviewed journal Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review.  Three of the articles published in Issue 43 will be presented by their authors and debated with participants.  The articlesd to be presented are:

Freire in European Global Citizenship Education: Critical Aspirations, Coloniality and the Work of Supplementation

Marta da Costa

Towards Critical and Transformative Global Citizenship Education: Mezirow’s Transformative Learning Theory and the Challenge of Deep Change

Anne M. Dolan

Mobility Privilege as an Epistemic Filter: Passport Hierarchies and Transformative Development Education

Giulia Filippi

Policy and Practice: A Development Education and this seminar have been funded by:

This document has been published as part of a development education project funded by Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs. Irish Aid is the Government’s overseas development programme which supports partners working in some of the world’s poorest countries. Irish Aid also supports global citizenship and development education in Ireland to encourage learning and public engagement with global issues. The ideas, opinions and comments herein are entirely the responsibility of the Centre for Global Education and do not necessarily represent or reflect DFA policy.=

October 2026