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Development Education and the Economic Paradigm

Dec 16, 2022

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.


Biographies

Celina del Felice  is an educator and researcher from Argentina, based in Spain. Her areas of expertise are peace, intercultural and global citizenship education, youth participation and transnational activism related to global justice issues. Celina works as an associate Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, in its Conflict, Peace and Security Master Programme offered in collaboration with UNITAR. Prior to this, she did research on the role of transnational activism  shaping the negotiations of trade and development agreements between the EU and other regions at University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Harm-Jan Fricke is a Development Education/Global Learning consultant working with local, national and international organisations in the UK and Europe on design, implementation and evaluation of projects and programmes in support of local-global development. Find out more...

Anders Daniel Faksvåg Haugen is completing his Doctorate thesis at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, exploring education as a tool for nation-building in Tanzania after the nation’s introduction of multiparty democracy.  Haugen holds a Master of Social Science in Education and has been teaching citizenship education and human geography in teacher education at the NLA University College, Dar es Salaam University College of Education and the University of Zambia in addition to the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.  Prior to his PhD studies, Haugen practised as a primary school teacher. Contact him here

Irene Tollefsen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Development and Environmental studies, and a Master’s degree in International Environmental Studies from the University of Life Sciences in Ås, Norway.  She has a second Master’s degree in Social Science Didactics from the University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, Norway.  She is a Doctorate candidate researching how to approach the economic dimension of the sustainable development concept.  Fields of interests are critical pedagogy, participatory approaches, the degrowth concept and movement, Bien Vivir, Ubuntu economics, economics of permanence, decolonising academia and economics, and other avenues of exploring alternative economics paradigms. Contact Irene here
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