Date: Wednesday, 14 October,  9.30am - 4.30pm

Location: Brandsma Room in the Carmelite Centre

This trainign workshop has been organised by the Irish Development Education Associiation (IDEA) in collaboration with Centre for Global Education and Financial Justice Ireland on Wednesday, 14 October |  9.30am – 4.30pm | Carmelite Centre, Dublin 2.

A central commitment of Global Education (GE) is to explore the root causes of global injustice and inequality. Yet, despite intensifying global inequality, climate and ecological breakdown, and economic and political crises, the economic systems and assumptions underpinning many of these challenges can remain relatively unexplored within our GE practice. 

Research commissioned by the Centre for Global Education and Financial Justice Ireland, Challenging the Dominant Economic Paradigm? (2022) and Exploring the Elephant in the Room (2025), identified both a strong appetite among GCE/Development Education practitioners to engage more deeply with the economic root causes of poverty and inequality, and a need for further professional development to support practitioners in bringing explicit economic analysis into their work. This training responds directly to those findings. It aims to: 

• create a participatory space for GCE practitioners to critically examine the dominant economic growth model, related policies and their impacts; 
• explore how neoliberal ideas have come to be treated as economic “common sense”; 
• introduce practical approaches to root-cause and systems analysis, applying them to local, national and global issues of poverty and inequality; 
• explore alternative economic models and approaches already being put into practice locally and globally; and 
• build collective confidence to bring a stronger economic analysis into our GCE practice. 

Fees for members of IDEA are €10.00 and non-members of IDEA are €20.00. Fees for unwaged or students are €3.00 - this can be paid in person.