Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review is a biannual (Spring and Autumn), peer reviewed, open access, online journal published by the Centre for Global Education, a non-governmental development organisation based in Belfast. It aims to celebrate and promote good practice in development education and to debate the shifting policy context in which it is delivered. It provides a space for education practitioners to critically reflect on their practice, share new research and engage in debate with their peers. Each issue of the journal features in-depth contributions on key aspects of development education such as pedagogical innovation, research, methodologies, monitoring and evaluation, the production of resources, enhancing organisational capacity and strategic interventions in education policy. Policy & Practice is informed by values such as social justice, equality and interdependence and is based on the Freirean concept of education as an agent of positive social change.  The journal web site receives iover 200,000 visitors per annum from the global North and South and successfully combines quality contributions from academia and civil society.  Journal editor Stephen McCloskey can be contacted at stephen@centreforglobaleducation.com.

The Centre for Global Education is grateful to Irish Aid - the arm of the Irish Government responsible for overseas aid and development education - which has funded the journal since its inception in 2005, and to the Irish development agency, Concern Worldwide, for funding the journal’s new web site.  Centre for Global Education has taken care to ensure that Policy and Practice has been published to high ethical and professional standards. 

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Users can use, reuse, share, adapt and build upon the material published in the journal for any purpose as long as appropriate credit is given to the original source and the relevant article is properly cited. Policy & Practice is available on the EBSCO journals platform. 

ISSN: 1748-135X