Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Citizenship Education

Start Date: 26/06/2016 End Date: 26/06/2016

Event Location: Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies
National University of Ireland, Galway,
University Road,
Galway.

The Moore Institute at NUIG , SUAS and IDEA are delighted to invite you to a one-day workshop on Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Citizenship Education. The workshop will be held at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, on Monday 27 June, 10:45 am – 3:45 pm. 

The aim of the day is to promote dialogue, sharing and collaboration between researchers and practitioners in the area of non-discriminatory Global Citizenship Education, with a particular focus on gender issues, young people, and Southern & postcolonial perspectives. The day will be facilitated by Momodou Sallah, Dalene Swanson and Su Ming Khoo. Artist Eimear McNally will help us to creatively interweave our insights.    

Please join us for what promises to be a rich and challenging conversation amongst a diverse group of Global Citizenship Education researchers and practitioners. The event is free but you must register in advance with Susan@ideaonline.ie. We hope to see you on the 27th!

About our facilitators:

Dr Momodou Sallah is Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester. His areas of interest and expertise include cultural competency, global youth work, youth participation, diversity, black young people and young Muslims. In November 2015, Momodou was named the ‘most innovative teacher in the UK’ in the Times Higher Education Awards.

Dr Dalene Swanson is a senior academic at the University of Stirling. She is interested in critical global citizenship, postcoloniality, indigenous thought, post-foundational methodologies, dance and mathematics education.

Dr Su-ming Khoo teaches and researches at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her interests include postcolonial development studies, public advocacy and activism, human rights and the ethics of higher education.  

Eimear McNally is an illustrator and facilitator working mainly in the area of live graphic recording and visual facilitation. She has many years of experience in Education for Global Citizenship, and she is passionate about bringing creativity and new ways of seeing into our work and our lives.

September 26, 2025
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 (hereinafter ‘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!
September 26, 2025
Date: 11 November, 10.30am – 4.30pm. Location: IDEA offices, 6 Gardiner Row IDEA launched its new Advocacy Toolkit and GCE Policy Guide resource pack in early March. The advocacy toolkit and policy guide were developed for IDEA members to strengthen their capacity to effectively advocate with policymakers and to actively engage in policy processes on GCE in Ireland and the wider world. IDEA will facilitate a full-day in-person workshop on these resources in the IDEA offices on Tuesday, 11 November ,10.30am – 4.30pm. Places are limited to 20 participants and will be given on a first come, first served basis. Please note that this is a repeat of the workshop that took place in May and is aimed at members who did not have the opportunity to participate in May. A vegetarian lunch will be provided. Register below!
September 26, 2025
Date: 06 November a nd 18 November from 3.30–4.30pm Location: IDEA offices, 6 Gardiner Row, Dublin 1 Due to positive feedback following a workshop during our annual conference, we are thrilled to invite members to a full 2-part interactive workshop about “Racial Justice” on 06 November and 18 November. This event will take place in-person in Dublin. Our facilitators Bronwyn April and Mdahyelya Bassi will guide participants through a critical exploration of the interconnections between racial justice, philanthropy, migration, and decolonisation within global and Irish contexts. The workshop will delve into how historical and ongoing colonial legacies influence contemporary issues of racial equity and social justice in Ireland and beyond. The dates for this event are fast approaching, so if you have any specific accessibility requirements, please email events@ideaonline.ie as soon as possible. Places for this event are limited, and registration is mandatory. Deadline to register is Monday, 04 November. Register below!