Centre for Global Education & Comhlamh invite you to a seminar titled:

Webinar on Pedagogical Responses to the Meta Crisis: The Role of Development Education

This event has been organised to debate the content of Issue 42 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 ‘Pedagogical Responses to the Meta Crisis: The Role of Development Education’ which reflects on the intersecting crises currently impacting our world and how we can respond as development educators. Three authors who published articles in Issue 42 will present their papers and debate them with colleagues.  

Wednesday, 27 May 2026 from 12.00pm – 1.30pm (via Zoom)

Register on Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/pedagogical-responses-to-the-meta-crisis-the-role-of-development-education-tickets-1989002328507?aff=oddtdtcreator

The speakers and their papers are as follows:

Bernie Grummell (Chair) (Professor, Maynooth University School of Education) 

Katie Chappell (Director, WorldWise Global Schools)

Global Citizenship Education from the Margins: Insights from Youthreach and Alternative Education in Ireland

Gertrude Cotter (Lecturer, School of Education, University College Cork)

Camp Saoirse and Direct Action as Radical Pedagogy

Brighid Golden (Lecturer, (Global Education, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)

From Theory to Practice: Global Citizenship Education in the First Year of Primary Teaching During Times of Crisis

Targeted Sectors of Education

Development Education; Global Citizenship Education; Development Studies / Tertiary Education; Pre-service Education; Continuing Professional Development; International Development.

For further information contact:

Centre for Global Education, 9 University Street, Belfast, BT7 1FY

Tel:                 028 90241879

E-mail:           stephen@centreforglobaleducation.com

Web:             www.centreforglobaleducation.com

Bluesky:        @cgebelfast.bsky.social 

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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.

May 2026