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Call for contributors: Issue 12: Professionalisation & Deradicalisation in Development Education

We would like to invite academics and practitioners in the field of development education and related adjectival educations to submit article abstracts for consideration for Issue 12, on the theme Professionalisation and Deradicalisation in Development Education.  Issue 12 will ask whether the greater professionalisation of development education through closer integration with education and government policy and practice has led to a deradicalisation of the sector.  It will explore the positive and negative effects of a more formally organised sector that began as a radical endeavour to challenge the social and economic causes of inequality and injustice.  Articles will examine the growth of the sector, its successes and failures, and assess whether development education as currently organised and practiced can achieve its stated objectives. .  The deadline for Issue 12 articles is December 2010.  For more information on the journal and to access past issues, see: www.developmenteducationreview.com. 

           Submissions and suggestions for contributors or topics should be sent to Jenna Coriddi, Training and Research Officer: jenna@centreforglobaleducation.com.  Tel: +44 (0) 28 9024 1879.  Address: Centre for Global Education, 9 University Street, Belfast, BT7 1FY.

A Practical Introduction to Graphic Recording: 16 November 2010 

The Centre for Global Education is offering a training seminar titled: A Practical Introduction to Graphic Recording on Tuesday, 16 November from 10am to 4:30pm.  The seminar will take place in the Red Barn Gallery, 43b Rosemary Street, Belfast.  This training seminar is a basic introduction to the art of visually recording and harvesting meaning from meetings, conversations or conferences.  It can be a powerful tool with which to document important meetings and inform decisions.  Participants will learn about the principles of Graphic Recording and have a chance to develop their own approach to using this tool.  No drawing skills are necessary.  The training will be facilitated by Eimear McNally, Training and Communications Officer for the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA).   It will include a basic introduction to the concept of graphic recording, an outline of the process, development of your own visual vocabulary and an opportunity to practice.  More information on the process of graphic recording can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se6lbKtw_WA.  All materials and lunch included.  Places are limited to 14 maximum.

For more information and to register, please contact Jenna Coriddi, Training and Research Officer.  Email: jenna@centreforglobaleducation.com, tel.: +44 (0)28 9024 1879.

What Climate Change Brings to the Development Education Agenda

What Climate Change Brings to the Development Education Agenda is the title of an upcoming Centre for Global Education seminar, which will be held Tuesday, 23 November at the Junction in Derry/Londonderry from 10:00am to 4pm.  In this workshop, David Selby, global educator and co-editor of the just-published book, Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times, will argue that runaway climate change calls for a serious revisiting of the assumptions, key messages, frameworks and focuses of development (and global) education.  Climate change cannot be laid aside by development educators as being an ‘environmental’ issue and, hence, peripheral to their field of vision.  He will argue that the climate threat raises fundamental questions about the human condition that are central to development education and to all its ‘sister’ educations.  The workshop will be highly interactive with much of the time given over to activities and discussion but with short presentations scattered throughout.  Participants will go away with a portfolio of activities for use in teacher and community education and the school classroom.  The workshop involves a collaboration between the Centre for Global Education and Sustainability Frontiers.  For more information and to register please contact Jenna Coriddi, Training and Research Officer: jenna@centreforglobaleducation.com, tel: +44 (0)28 9024 1879.

Global Education across Europe – actors, approaches, debates and recent trends

The Centre for Global Education will delivery a Global Education across Europe seminar on Wednesday, 26 January from 10:30am to 4pm in Belfast, venue TBC, faciliated by Johannes Krause who has been involved in global education at European level since 2003.  The workshop will introduce the major development education/global education actors, co-ordination and support structures and policy debates at European level as well as typical patterns of these structures and debates within EU member states.  It will explore and discuss the different understandings of, approaches to and delimitations of the concept(s) of DE/GE, including a geographic and actor-specific 'mapping' of the major concepts of DE/GE including trends and changes of these concepts and approaches over time. Finally, aspects of good practice in DE/GE will be highlighted, including examples from projects across Europe. The workshop will consist of  presentations by the facilitator contributing ideas, knowledge and examples from the European DE/GE landscape, as well as more participatory and discussion-based elements in which participants are motivated to bring in their own experiences with and understandings of DE/GE and to relate these experiences to the inspirations coming from Europe.  For more information and to register, please contact Jenna Coriddi, Training and Research Officer: jenna@centreforglobaleducation.com, tel: +44 (0)28 9024 1879.

2011 Centre for Global Education annual conference

The 2011 conference will look to provide practitioners and academics with the tools to argue the case for development education, proactively engage with development agencies and other relevant organisations/bodies, and to demonstrate to development agencies why they should engage with and support development education. It will be held on the 24-25 February 2011 in Belfast. Look for more information to come.  Save the date!!

For more information about any of the above events and/or publications, please contact Jenna at jenna@centreforglobaleducation.com or by phoning at +44 (0)28 9024 1879.