Moderator: Dr. Aoife Titley is the lecturer in Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education in Maynooth University. Before becoming a teacher educator, she worked as an education researcher and a post-primary teacher. Her research interests include GCE policy and practice, international service learning, anti-racism education and diversity in the primary teaching profession
Showcase: Global Citizenship Education Research
Date: 26 October, 10.00am - 1.00pm
Location: Ormond Meeting Rooms, 31 - 36 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7, D07 N5YH
We are inviting members and anyone working on Global Citizenship Education (GCE) research to join us for a Showcase of Global Citizenship Education Research on Thursday 26 October at the Ormond Meeting Rooms, Room 12, from 10.00am -1.00pm.
Whether you are interested in getting up to date with the ongoing research in the field in Ireland, would like to ensure you practice is informed by research, are interested in engaging more in research, already actively engaged in research, or, are simply curious about the field, there will be something for everyone.
This will be an opportunity to hear first-hand about ongoing Global Citizenship Education research from people who are at the heart of it. It will also be an opportunity to contribute your thoughts on the current state of play of research in the sector, identify shared research priorities for the sector, and what your own research needs as an individual or organisation are.
Registration opens at 09.30am and lunch will be offered at the end of the event at 1.00pm.
The event will begin with a Moderated Roundtable discussion followed by a Q&A. The second part will be a facilitated discussion amongst participants on their views on research in the sector and their needs.
This event has finished.
The programme is available here.
The Harvest Document from this event is available here.
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Biographies
Speaker: Dr Brighid Golden is an Assistant Professor in Global Citizenship Education at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, and a member of the national Development and Intercultural Education (DICE) project network. Brighid is a trained primary school teacher with experience working in Ireland, England and India. Brighid has a Master’s in International Approaches to Education with International Development from the University of Birmingham, and a PhD in Education from the University of Glasgow which focused on global education within initial teacher education. She also has experience designing and developing teaching resources for primary and post-primary settings in relation to human rights.
Speaker: Barry Cannon PhD, Dublin City University, 2005) lectures on politics in the Sociology Department of Maynooth University (Ireland). His research focuses on Latin American politics, democracy, citizenship and the far right. He has led two Irish Research Council New Foundations funded research projects on civil society responses to the Far Right in Ireland (2021 – 22) and on Global Citizenship (2022 – 23), the first in collaboration with the Crosscare Migrant Project, the second with Comhlamh, Suas and the Centre for Global Education. He has published widely in key academic journals and has authored two single author and two edited volumes on Latin American politics. He has appeared in a wide variety of media outlets, including the Irish Times, RTE radio and television, BBC Radio Four and the BBC World Service.
Speaker: Audrey Bryan is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Human Development at Dublin City University Institute of Education. She is the General Editor of the journal ‘Irish Educational Studies’. She has published widely in the field of Global Citizenship Education and has a particular interest in teaching about ecological justice.
Speaker: Giulia Filippi is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) and she is currently a visiting student in the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education at Maynooth University. Permanent primary school teacher in Italy and Italian teacher as L2 for non-native people, her education includes a MA in Primary Education from the University of Turin and a specialisation in teaching Italian as L2, from the same University. Her research interests include Global Citizenship Education, teacher education, comparative education, and teachers’ professional development.
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!
