The IDEA Annual Conference on the 15th June was a great success- thank you to everyone who contributed and participated. It was certainly full of debate, discussion and interaction.

Read the full report here.

You can look at photographs on our flickr stream.

You can see the video speech prepared by Mary Robinson for the conference here.

You can also access Davie Philip's keynote presentation here. (pdf 1.21mb)

You can access a paper, based on the research presented by Susan Pike and Brian Ruane (CHRCE) here.

Video of Panel discussion in 2 parts below.

Reflection on the Day: Participants were asked, What are you grateful for from today?

1. Spending time with peers with lowered egos
2. Questions- food for thought in practice and purpose
3. Reaffirming the necessity and benefit of intra-sector discussions
4. Collaboration
5. Global Citizens
6. Learning from each other
7. Politics is the name of the game
8. Much greater awareness of the existing DE network- looking forward to developing relationships
9. 2 loops model
10. Illumination
11. Community debate
12. Shared responsibility
13. Climate change and justice is a long-term goal
14. Shared responsibility and willingness to listen to all of the debates/ ideas make the connections and move forward
15. How we think about these issues is dynamic- ask us in a month’s time
16. Great to hear different points of view/ perspectives
17. Sense of being part of a community
18. Positive support by this community brought together by a common purpose in education for climate justice
19. Making connections between different sectors- going out of your niche
20. One common goal- move conversation from climate change to climate justice
21. Dev Ed needs to confront issues to do with power and how to access it
22. Change needs to start with one’s self. Climate Justice is all our responsibility (sic)
23. I feel that it was a positive outcome of today that we recognised that it can be a struggle to move from Dev Ed to action so it will be seen as an important issues from now on.
24. Seeing that people realise that there is a shared responsibility instead of all the onus being put on young people- very reassuring.
25. A coalition can tread more risky advocacy ground than an individual organisation
26. Need for DE sector to collaborate and adapt to this key context... belated but welcome realisation!
27. Engagement with like-minded people- addressing politics and power
28. Mary Robinson keynote reinforcement of importance of DE/ Climate Justice education