January 2012 Learning Series Events: Conversational Approaches to DE

Jan 3 2012

23rd (Dublin) and 24th (Galway) of January 2012.

Cost: €20 Members (€10 Unwaged, €50 non-members)

New Submission by IDEA Formal Education Working Group to NCCA

Nov 22 2011

This submission to the NCCA is made by the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA) in relation to the two proposed senior cycle short courses Enterprise and Psychology.

Between Battleship Potemkin and Wall Street: A Dev Ed Gaze on the Occupy Movement

Nov 3 2011

Looking at the occupy movements that are currently spreading over the Western world development educators could say:  “Is this not exactly what we have put into hundreds of funding applications and strategic plans as one of our main aims: Young active citizens acting for change. So let’s go home and celebrate the impact that we had and celebrate our success!” Well, there is a slight problem with the latter as it seems that the occupy movements happened without us and the work that we have been doing in development educators over the last decades.