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.
8Public Awareness
Spring 2009
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The international development sector continually aims to raise public awareness about important development issues. Governments and organisations regularly seek to mobilise the public to support campaigns toward policy change or respond to an emergency disaster in the developing world through a fundraising appeal. Issue 8 of Policy and Practice explores the sometimes uneasy relationship between public awareness and development education, and how these sectors can work more closely to complement their approaches to development. It identifies some potential benefits that could arise from greater collaboration between the sectors and challenges that sometimes impede stronger linkages between development educators and campaigners.
Public awareness work
Public awareness work carried out in the development sector varies widely, and different aspects should be...
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