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Debating the importance of regional development education
On World Food Day, October 16th, Scottish Minister for Learning Alasdair Allan announced the awarding of £600,000 (€700,700) towards the core costs of 6 development
What we’re watching and reading: Think Africa; The World’s Best News; staying positive and imagining a better world; #LivingWage campaign
Information is powerful. Think Africa is a short video that collects the opinions of festival goers from the 2013 Electric Picnic in Stradbally as they
I’ve got some good news for you!
Around 40 volunteers hit the streets of Dublin and Cork last Friday to hand out copies of “The World’s Best News” – a free paper
Twelve takeaway messages from latest IPCC report on climate change
Blog written by Jonah Busch and cross-posted from the Center for Global Development (CGD, USA). This quick summary of the key messages from the report
Junior Cycle Geography has not been kind to development education
September 2013, the start of a new school year, a year that promises to be turbulent and exciting for students and teachers. The Minister’s announcement
The danger of single stories: ‘Africa’
Those interested in good quality lectures, music and humour (and much else!) will already be familiar with TED – https://www.ted.com/ – in 2009, TED posted
‘Every time they are doing a cutting, the singing gets louder so you can’t hear the screaming’
Across 29 countries within Africa, and more than 125 million women and girls cut, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) continues to be practiced from the Atlantic
New teaching guides for taking development education into the classroom
It’s back to school! And what better time of year to brighten up your lesson plans in mathematics, art, SPHE, business, English or other subjects
Emphasising, once again, the importance of values and empathy in development education
At the recent July Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies/80:20 Human Rights Summer School in Malta, Roland Tormey of the Teaching Support Centre, Ecole polytechnique fédérale
The power of dreams
Rising to speak at the Lincoln Washington Memorial on 28th August 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was standing at the summit of racial segregation