Webinar Series: Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education, ‘The Age of Cascading Crises’

Date: Tuesday 09 April, 12.30pm-2.00pm

Location: Online via zoom


IDEA is hosting a Webinar Series: Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education. The second session in this series is entitled ‘The Age of Cascading Crises’ and will take place online via Zoom on Tuesday 09 April from 12.30pm-2.00pm.

 

This webinar focuses on a number of contemporary global challenges which appear to increase and accelerate each year. The webinar aims to strengthen our capacity to engage as educators to understand the connections between these crises and also increase our confidence to address them in educational settings.

 

This webinar will be moderated by Lizzy Noone from WorldWide Global Schools with inputs from Dr Aoife Titley and Patrick Marren both from Maynooth University who lead the design and development of modules on the Certificate in GCE (level-9 programme) offered by Maynooth University. This certificate provides a specialised learning experience in global citizenship education (GCE) for practitioners. During the webinar Aoife and Patrick will give you an introduction to what they see as contemporary crises and issues and how GCE can respond. The webinar will also provide a useful ‘taster’ for anyone considering registering for the Certificate in Maynooth to hear from two of the lecturers involved. There will also be a chance at the end to hear some logistical information about the course.


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Biographies

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Dr. Aoife Titley is the lecturer in Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education, Maynooth University. Before becoming a teacher educator, she worked as an education researcher and a post-primary teacher. Her research in the community and voluntary sector includes projects for organisations such as the Irish Traveller Movement, Africa Centre, Debt and Development Coalition, Poetry Ireland, Carlow County Development Partnership and Extern Ireland/ HSE. She has also been involved in the design and development of numerous publications for primary schools, including for Amnesty International Ireland, and the Moral Education Curriculum of the United Arab Emirates (Pearson). Aoife was also the Programme Manager of the DICE Project for three years, of which the then Froebel College of Education was a partner institution. The DICE Project is a national strategic programme funded by Irish Aid which supports the embedding of development education and intercultural education into initial teacher education in Ireland. Further information is available at www.diceproject.ie.

Aoife Titley is the Co-Chairperson of the MU Sanctuary Committee, a collaborative community and cross-departmental initiative, working to make Maynooth University an inclusive space for students from asylum seeking and refugee backgrounds.



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Patrick Marren is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of International Development at Maynooth University and the BA programme coordinator. He has over 30 years of lecturing experience in politics and economics and is interested in development indicators, the history of economic growth, systemic transitions, and the green economy.

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Lizzy Noone has been working with schools on Global Citizenship Education and campaigning for 24 years. She has worked for WorldWise Global Schools for 9 years working with schools to have a whole school approach to global justice and equality.

She worked with Concern for 15 years previous to this, working on three EU funded projects including stop Child Labour. She has worked with Concern Debates and the Concern Campaign Academy that engaged students in GCE and campaigns. She represented Ireland on the European Development Education Forum for four years, and was an active member of the steering group of the Global Campaign for Education and Stop Climate Chaos for many years. She did the Transformative Learning Journey 2 with Bridge 47. She is a strong believer in degrowth and decolonisation.

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