DEAL

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DEAL

• Development Education in
• Adult Learning

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Definition

• "Every person in Ireland will have access to
  educational opportunities to be aware of and
  understand their rights and responsibilities as
  global citizens and their potential to effect
  change for a more just and equal world."
• White Paper on Irish Aid

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Objectives

• Organise in-service training for staff and
  volunteer learners interested in promoting
  development education on their programmes.
• Provide development education inputs using a
  three-pronged approach i.e. embedded, modular and
  hot topic.

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• EMBEDDED introducing dev. ed. topics through
  existing courses e.g. Communications, Business
  Studies,
• Food and Cookery.
• MODULAR - piloting Global Citizenship a
  development education course.
• HOT TOPICS focus on issues of public concern
  with local/global connections clean water, food
  shortages, child labour, climate change etc.

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• Map learning activities from the embedded
  approach used by the project onto FETAC module
  descriptors (as has been done with Senior Cycle
  curriculum) for dissemination.
• Promote development education through established
  networks including VEC regional networks and the
  Clare Lifelong Learning Network.

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• Liaise with development education coordinator,
  Mary Immaculate College with a view to
  re-establishing the Extra-mural Certificate in
  Dev. Ed.
• Liaise with FETAC on the development of a Global
  Citizenship module at appropriate levels.
• The first three months of the project will see a
  particular focus on -
• Education, Environment and Trade issues.

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Key Elements of Development Education

• Attitudes and values about ourselves and others,
  here in Ireland and internationally
• Knowledge, ideas and understanding about how our
  world is the way it is
• Skills and capabilities that help us engage in
  that world discussion and debate
• Behaviour, experiences and action, opportunities
  to participate meaningfully

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Key Skills

• Communication skills ability to express ones
  views by various means, understand others
  sometimes conflicting views.
• Intellectual skills ability to find, interpret
  and organise information and ideas, understand
  the consequences of our actions
• Social skills ability to effectively interact
  with others, especially across cultures
• Action skills develop ability to participate
  with others, to influence and change things and
  understand that not all change is positive
• www.8020.ie

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• How in the world did we get to where we are now?
• What went before? What happened?
• What came next?
• What did people do about it?
• Were they wrong/right/misinformed/misguided
• Did they stop to evaluate their decisions?
• Did anybody tell them to stop/go ahead/think
  again?
• What do we do now the torch has passed to our
  generation?
• Have we any idea of how we touch one anothers
  lives and the lives of people we never even meet?

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Housing Development(October 6th World Habitat
Day)

• Housing in Co Clare Housing
  in Africa
• www.unmillenniumproject.org
• Who benefits? Who benefits?
• Who loses? Who loses?
• Who decides? Who decides?
• What needs to change and why?
• Where do I stand?

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Websites
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Calendar of World Events

• Oct 1 International Day of Ageing
• Oct 2 International Day of Non-violence
• Oct 6 World Habitat Day
• Oct 13-19 Chocolate week
• Oct 15 Global Hand washing Day and International
  Day of Rural Women
• Oct 16 World Food Day
• Oct 17 International Day for the Eradication of
  Poverty
• Oct 24 United Nations Day
• Oct 24 - 30 Disarmament Week
• Oct 31 Breast Cancer Awareness Day
• Nov 15 22 One World Week (Young Peoples
  Rights/60th Anniversary of UN Declaration of
  Human Rights (1947)
• Nov 16 International Day for Tolerance
• Nov 20 Universal Children's Day
• Nov 20th Irish Aid DEAC 2008 forum Driving
  Development Education Dublin
• Nov 25 International Day for the Elimination of
  Violence against Women
• Nov 25 Dec 10th 16 Days of Activism against
  Gender Violence
• Dec 1 World Aids Day
• Dec 9 International Anti-corruption Day
• Dec 10 Human Rights Day

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Whats on in Ennis?

• Specsavers will take your old spectacles on
  behalf of Vision Aid Overseas helping people in
  the developing countries
• Oxfam Bookshop will take your books and sell them
  to raise funds for overseas development, also
  recycles mobile phones
• Cartridgegreen takes printer cartridges and
  refills them, saving money, reducing waste

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One World, Many visions Whats Yours?