Dr. Audrey Bryan is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Human Development, Dublin City University. Her most recent work asks:What educationally and socially transformative possibilities exist when emotion, affect and feeling are taken seriously as a focus of educational research and practice?
Future trends in Development Education
Friday 26 November, 12.30-2pm
This lunchtime webinar will provide a look forward at future trends and emerging issues in Development Education/Global Citizenship Education. We will identify and explore possibilities and problems influencing how development education is conceived and practised.
The session will be moderated by Dervla King. Dervla is programme manager with Comhlámh, which supports international volunteers and development workers to act in solidarity for a just, equitable and sustainable world.
Speakers include Dr Audrey Bryan Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Human Development, Dublin City University. Audrey will share her research on a new ‘emotional paradigm’ within education that is influencing Development Education, including the increasing emphasis on neurologically-informed approaches to the pursuit of global justice goals and competencies such as mindfulness, empathy and compassion, on the one hand, and increasing recognition of the need to attend to difficult emotions within Global Citizenship Education, on the other.
She will be joined by Edward Vickers, Professor of Comparative Education at Kyushu University in Japan. Edward will discuss the political context for this focus on social-emotional learning along with 'brain science' and educational technology, drawing on his own recent experience of educational development work. He will show how an excessive focus on learning at the level of individual 'brains' decontextualises and depoliticises educational debate, in ways profoundly convenient to those determined to preserve the political and socio-economic status quo.
They will also be joined by Joyce Raanhuis, a doctoral student at the Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in Cape Town. She will draw upon her research and experiences of teacher professional development in the South African context, and will discuss the influences of Development Education and social cohesion and their relevance towards building a just society.
The webinar is aimed at anyone with an interest in Development Education, both newcomers and established practitioners, IDEA members and representatives from other sectors, and other parts of the World.
It will run over lunchtime so feel free to enjoy your lunch during it.
If you have questions, or would like to know more, please contact us.
Biographies
Edward Vickers is Professor of Comparative Education at Kyushu University in Japan, where he also holds the UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship. He researches the history and politics of education in contemporary East Asia. He is author (with Zeng Xiaodong) of Education and Society in Post-Mao China (2017), and co-editor of Remembering Asia's World War Two (2019). With Yoko Mochizuki and Krishna Kumar, he wrote the 2017 UNESCO report, Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century. He is President of the Comparative Education Society of Asia.
Joyce Raanhuis is a doctoral student at the Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in Cape Town, with a background in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex, UK. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of teacher professional development programmes for social cohesion in the field of education in post-apartheid South Africa. Furthermore, her research interests include post-conflict education, social justice, and migration.
Last week, IDEA hosted the second webinar from our 2025 series, ‘Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education, ' focusing on Palestine. If you missed out, you can watch the full video below!
At the end of March, IDEA staff and representatives from three IDEA members travelled to Riga, Latvia, for a two-day event marking the launch of IDEA’s Erasmus+ project with our partner LAPAS (Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation) focused on the IDEA Code of Good Practice The project’s core objective is to enhance the quality of global citizenship education (GCE) at local , national and European levels. Central to this work is the creation of a Code of Good Practice for Latvia based on learning from the IDEA Code that will support Latvian GCE practitioners, including teachers, NGOs, youth workers and others, by fostering a common understanding and approach to GCE. This represents the first piloting of the IDEA Code in an international context. The new IDEA task group for the project, made up of Code members, alongside IDEA staff, are supporting LAPAS members to adapt the Code for the Latvian national context by sharing our own experiences and learnings from the Code and GCE in Ireland. The event in Riga was the first in-person gathering of the project, bringing together LAPAS and IDEA members. This face-to-face interaction allowed us to begin the process of knowledge exchange, and mutual learning which will spread the Code’s reach and strengthen our GCE practice. IDEA was represented in Riga by Dean Oke (CDYS (Cloyne Diocesan Youth Service), Georgina Eastaugh (Concern Worldwide) and Claire Glavey (Global Village), alongside IDEA staff Elaine and Aine.
06 May 10.30am – 4.30pm
IDEA offices, 6 Gardiner Row
