Date:
Tuesday, 14 February,
12.00pm – 1.30pm
Location:
Online via Zoom
The Centre for Global Education & the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA) invite you to a webinar on 'Development Education and the Economic Paradigm', taking place Tuesday, 14 February,12.00pm – 1.30pm online via zoom.
The chairperson for this webinar is Celina del Felice.
She is an educator and researcher working on areas peace, intercultural and global citizenship education, youth participation and transnational activism.
Speakers will include
Harm-Jan Fricke who is a Development Education/Global Learning consultant working with local, national and international organisations in the UK and Europe,
Anders Daniel Faksvåg Haugen
a
Doctorate candidate at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences education as a tool for nation-building in Tanzania and Irene Tollefsen a
Doctorate candidate at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences on the economic dimension of the sustainable development concept.
This webinar has been organised to present and debate the content of Issue 35 of the Centre for Global Education’s bi-annual, open access, peer reviewed journal Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review. The theme of this issue is ‘Development Education and the Economic Paradigm’ which reflects upon the impact of the neoliberal economic system on social and economic inequality, and how the Development Education sector can respond to this challenge. Three of the articles published in
Issue 35 will be presented at this seminar and will enable authors to debate their articles with readers and facilitate discussion on good practice in development education.
Each speaker will present their articles for 10-15mins followed by discussion. The three articles being presented at the seminar are:
Addressing ‘Root Causes’? Development Agencies, Development Education and Global Economics by Harm-Jan Fricke,
Education for Development: The Tanzanian Experience by Anders Daniel Faksvåg Haugen and
Development’s Disappearance: A Metaphor Analysis of Sustainable Development in Norwegian Core Curriculum by Irene Tollefsen.
This webinar will be of particular interest to those involved in Development Education, Global Citizenship Education, Development Studies / Tertiary Education and International Development.
This webinar is free but registration is essential.
There will be Irish Sign Language interpretation in this webinar.
Deadline for registration is Friday 10 February.
Registration for this event is closed.