12.00pm – 1.30pm (via Zoom)
About this event
This event has been organised Centre for Global Education & Development and Imtercultural Education Project to present and debate the content of Issue 39 of the bi-annual, open access, peer reviewed journal Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review. The theme of this issue is ‘Development Education Silences’ which reflects on the factors underpinning the non-response of the development education sector to the converging crises currently impacting our world such as neoliberalism, the climate emergency and, above all, the genocide in the Gaza Strip. As a consciously political pedagogy committed to authentic struggle in solidarity with the oppressed, development education should be applying its critical pedagogy and activism to the issues shaping our world. The sector, instead, has been pursuing ‘soft’ rather than ‘critical’ approaches to ‘development’ such as the Sustainable Development Goals that fail to tackle the root causes of injustice and inequality. Issue 39 of the journal calls out the socially sanctioned discourses and practices that actively create and reproduce development education silences. The aim of this event is to enable three authors who have published in Issue 39 to present their papers and debate the content with development education and higher education practitioners. The event will be held on Zoom and everyone is welcome. However, pre-registration on Eventbrite is necessary for participants.
Articles to be presented:
Participants are encouraged to read the papers presented at the seminar in advance. The three papers to be presented are as follows:
Development Education and the Scandal of the Human: The Grammar of Silence and Erasure
Mostafa Gamal, Simon Hoult, and Kieran Taylor
Are We All Sitting Uncomfortably: Unlearning the Stories of Social Justice
Jen Simpson
Development Education and Palestine: Confronting the Non-Response
Caroline Murphy
Authors Bios:
Mostafa Gamal is a lecturer in Psychology, Sociology and Education, Queen Margaret University, Scotland. Mostafa is interested in exploring through a post/decolonial lens the nexus of global citizenship education, immigration and race. Mostafa is also interested in exploring sustainability through a post/decolonial lens.
Jen Simpson is a global learning practitioner and educational researcher with a special interest in social justice, learner agency, participatory research approaches, critical pedagogy, and teacher professional development. She is an experienced project manager and teacher professional development provider with a range of experience in both mainstream education, higher education and NGO sectors. She has undertaken a number of innovative research projects starting with the Global Learning Project (GLP) Innovation Fund in conjunction with the Institute of Education, University College London. More recently, working as a research assistant at Durham University and a teaching associate and tutor at the University of Cumbria, she continues to explore and engage in innovative participatory educational research and practice.
Caroline Murphy is currently working as the CEO for Comhlámh. She has over fifteen years’ experience of working for organisations across the Irish international development sector with key experience in development education, strategy, policy, and safeguarding. Caroline has contributed a range of research and evaluation consultancies to the wider sector, focusing on development education, public engagement, safeguarding and NGO messages and frames.
Aoife Titley is the lecturer in Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education. Before becoming a teacher educator, she worked as an education researcher and a post-primary teacher. Her research in the community and voluntary sector includes projects for organisations such as the Irish Traveller Movement, the Africa Centre, Debt and Development Coalition, Poetry Ireland, Carlow County Development Partnership and Extern Ireland/ HSE. Prior to joining the Froebel Department as the DICE Lecturer in 2013, Aoife was also the Programme Manager of the DICE Project for three years, of which the then Froebel College of Education was a partner institution.
Registration
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