Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review is the only journal on global education published in the island of Ireland. It features contributions from practitioners in a range of education settings based in Ireland, the United Kingdom, across Europe, North America and the developing world. It is in its fifth year of operation, and is now available as an open-access online publication to increase accessibility and global reach. It aims to widen the global education sector’s understanding of the delivery and effectiveness of development education at local and international levels.
2Breaking Barriers
Spring 2006
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Development education emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, paralleling trends in development and international cooperation, including relations between developed and underdeveloped countries. Manuela Mesa’s ‘Background and Contextualization of Development Education’ (2005) provides a comprehensive overview of how development education evolved, broadening its agenda to “promote a better understanding of global interdependence and the structural connection between the North and the South, and between…everyday life and ‘macro issues’ ”. Though the topics prioritised for inclusion in development education may vary among actors in the sector, definitions coined or compiled by organisations such as the Development Education Exchange in Europe Project (DEEEP) provide a general framework in which practitioners can operate, emphasising their own priorities while adhering to a generally accepted standard of aims and values. While guidelines for the...
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