Claire Glavey is the Project Officer for Global Village, the strategic partnership for Global Citizenship Education in primary schools. She is a qualified primary school teacher and has a M.Sc. in Development Studies. Prior to this role, she worked as a primary school teacher and on a range of human rights education and development education programmes in the NGO sector. She brings her broad ranging experience of Development Education practice, as well as a strong commitment to strategic and quality-focused work, to the National Council.
Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through GCE, We Need to Talk About Gaza
Date: Wednesday 06 March, 12.30-2.00pm
Location: Online Via Zoom
IDEA will host a Webinar Series: Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education We need to talk about Gaza on 06 March, online from 12.30-2.00pm.
It will focus on educators’ responses to the ongoing crisis in Gaza. It aims to equip those working in Global Citizenship Education to be able to address this in educational settings. Participants will hear from expert speakers in the area and have time dedicated to a Question & Answer session.
This session will be moderated by Claire Glavey, Global Village. Speakers are:
Mary Coogan, a Development Education Programme Manager from Trócaire, will speak about Trócaire’s approach to bringing Palestine into the classroom through our resources.
Talha AlAli, a Youth Activism Officer with Amnesty International Ireland, will share their experience of human rights education and how the current crisis in Gaza can be addressed by educators/in their work. Other speakers will be confirmed soon.
Dr John Reynolds, Associate Professor of International Law and Chair of the LLM International Justice programme at the School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University.
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Biographies
Dr John Reynolds is Associate Professor of International Law and Chair of the LLM International Justice programme at the School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University. He is the author of Empire, Emergency and International Law and editor of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review journal and website. John writes regularly about Palestine for various academic and popular publications.
Mary Coogan is Development Education Programme Manager with TrócaireMary holds a BA from Trinity College Dublin and an MSC in International Development from UCD. She has worked in international development for over 10 years, particularly in the area of public engagement and education. Mary has worked with Trócaire for 9 years and with the development education team in Trócaire for 3 years. Her role involves managing programmes to support children and young people to critically engage with global justice issues. These programmes include resource development, innovative programmes on games based learning and documentary film making, and pre-service and in-service teacher training for educators in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Talha AlAli is A Youth Activism Officer with Amnesty International Ireland. A Palestinian human rights activist, performer, lyrist, and hip-hop artist, Talha started fighting for political change and social justice in Palestine at a young age through hip-hop music and theatre in the early 2000s. Talha’s passion for empowering people did not stop at music and theatre. He graduated from university as a psychologist and a counsellor and continued his post-grad in mental health and psychotherapy to work as a psychotherapist alongside his work in human rights
We are looking for a consultant to design an interactive data visualisation tool for our Theory of Impact for Global Citizenship Education in Ireland. The consultant will lead the design or tailoring of off-the-shelf survey software and analytics software to our needs, in collaboration with IDEA staff. Please submit a tender including a description of stages in the development process, number of days, expected fee, and experience of relevant personnel for the work to be carried out to anya@ideaonline.ie . The deadline for application is Wednesday, 29 October, 5.00pm. Read the full terms of reference here.
After three remarkable years with IDEA, we are sad to share that Anya Sparynska is moving abroad to begin a new adventure. During her time with us, Anya made an indelible mark - first by shaping a pioneering programme role, and later by guiding us in a capacity development role that strengthened our impact across Ireland’s development education sector. From designing and implementing innovative initiatives to building partnerships and capacity across our member organisations, Anya has left IDEA stronger, more connected, and more ambitious for the future. “I am sad to leave at such a pivotal time in IDEA: we are faced with unspeakable horror, as the need for justice and accountability grows ever more urgent. I have seen, however, our members and staff respond with creativity, humanity and dedication to these challenging times and find inspiration in it, even at this darkest hour. A desire to be close to my family and the pressure of the housing crisis have driven me to Brussels, but I know I will be back as Ireland - it’s passionate, brave and kind people - now feels like home. I will be sure to follow IDEA and our members’ work closely in the coming year and hope to stay in touch! “Working at IDEA has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. Seeing ideas and passion turn into real impact and change has been incredibly fulfilling - I’ll carry those lessons, and the very special friendships made along the way with me always.”
Date: Tuesday, 04 November, from 3.30–4.30pm Location: Online via Zoom IDEA is thrilled to invite members to the online launch of our new “Theory of Impact for Global Citizenship Education” on Tuesday, 04 November, from 3.30–4.30pm, Online via Zoom. During this session, we will present the model, share insights into the process behind its development, and explore how it will be used to strengthen impact across the sector. We will also introduce a new tool in progress, an interactive data visualisation map designed to showcase our collective impact as a network. For many years, IDEA and its members have been grappling with the concept of impact in Development Education/Global Citizenship Education (GCE). As GCE practitioners, tracking impact helps us to identify how, where and with whom our work is creating positive change, as well as investigating areas in which our impact could be stronger. Furthermore, we can also benefit from examining the collective impact of GCE carried out by the wide-ranging work of IDEA members, and from exploring how these impacts contribute to the major social changes to which the GCE community aspires. Driven therefore by the need to understand how projects and programmes are collectively “making a difference” in IDEA we looked at models that could help us visualise and capture GCE “impact networks”. We formulated our vision of impact and then a theory of how we expect this desired impact to be achieved to allow us to map our activities and collect data to corroborate that theory. This Theory of Impact model is how we hope to illustrate this complex GCE impact network. Building on work done by IDEA over many years including building sectoral capacity in using Results Frameworks for GCE, our Quality & Impact working group, engagement with Irish Aid on their Performance Measurement Framework (PMF), and the successful roll-out of a Code of Good Practice for DE/GCE, this Theory of Impact represent the next stage of our effort to ‘develop a consistent approach to measuring impact among the sector’. We are therefore thrilled to invite you to the presentation of our ‘Theory of Impact for GCE’. At this online presentation, we will tell you about the process that led to the creation of this model, how it will be used and what we hope it could bring to the sector. We will also touch on a new tool being developed based on the model, which should allow the creation of an interactive data visualisation map of our collective impact as a network. Join us as we launch into this exciting new phase of our Impact Measurement work. Join us as we begin this exciting new phase of our Impact Measurement work. Register below!
