Development Education Project

DevelopmentEducation.ie is an online resource focused on the unequal and unjust shape of the world today. It offers resources to stimulate debate and discussion about the issues and challenges we face and which encourage us to make decisions about the type of world we need and want to create. It is a place for primary and post primary teachers, youth workers, students, adult and community workers and those with an interest in development, sustainability and human rights. It is a place to learn about and explore: The basic shape of our (unequal 80:20) world International development and underdevelopment Human rights (and human wrongs) (in)Justice and (in)equality issues Race and interculturalism Views and perspectives on a variety of development issues including poverty, exclusion, women’s rights, HIV and AIDS, discrimination, aid, etc. Development and human rights education It is a place to find ideas, tools and materials for exploring controversial and contested issues such as human development, sustainability, fair trade, women’s rights etc. with stimulus resources, statistics, debates, viewpoints and values enquiry. It includes: A searchable online resource library Downloadable themed issue guides, development data, cartoons and photographs Blogs and opinion pieces from teachers, activists, development workers, students and educators Photo stories, ‘Top 10s’, resource reviews, An action hub with project case studies Teacher and educator guides Campaign ideas and action projects Details on resource centres in Ireland