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DEAL. Development Education in Adult Learning. Definition. "Every person in Ireland will have access to educational opportunities to be aware of and understand their rights and responsibilities as global citizens and their potential to effect change for a more just and equal world."

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DEAL

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  1. DEAL Development Education in Adult Learning

  2. Definition "Every person in Ireland will have access to educational opportunities to be aware of and understand their rights and responsibilities as global citizens and their potential to effect change for a more just and equal world." White Paper on Irish Aid

  3. Objectives • Organise in-service training for staff and volunteer learners interested in promoting development education on their programmes. • Provide development education inputs using a three-pronged approach i.e. embedded, modular and hot topic.

  4. EMBEDDED – introducing dev. ed. topics through existing courses e.g. Communications, Business Studies, Food and Cookery. • MODULAR - piloting ‘Global Citizenship’ a development education course. • HOT TOPICS – focus on issues of public concern with local/global connections clean water, food shortages, child labour, climate change etc.

  5. Map learning activities from the embedded approach used by the project onto FETAC module descriptors (as has been done with Senior Cycle curriculum) for dissemination. • Promote development education through established networks including VEC regional networks and the Clare Lifelong Learning Network.

  6. Liaise with development education coordinator, Mary Immaculate College with a view to re-establishing the Extra-mural Certificate in Dev. Ed. • Liaise with FETAC on the development of a ‘Global Citizenship’ module at appropriate levels. • The first three months of the project will see a particular focus on - Education, Environment and Trade issues.

  7. Key Elements of Development Education • Attitudes and values about ourselves and others, here in Ireland and internationally • Knowledge, ideas and understanding about how our world is the way it is • Skills and capabilities that help us engage in that world – discussion and debate • Behaviour, experiences and action, opportunities to participate meaningfully

  8. Key Skills • Communication skills – ability to express ones views by various means, understand others sometimes conflicting views. • Intellectual skills – ability to find, interpret and organise information and ideas, understand the consequences of our actions • Social skills– ability to effectively interact with others, especially across cultures • Action skills – develop ability to participate with others, to influence and change things and understand that not all change is positive www.8020.ie

  9. How in the world did we get to where we are now? • What went before? What happened? • What came next? • What did people do about it? • Were they wrong/right/misinformed/misguided • Did they stop to evaluate their decisions? • Did anybody tell them to stop/go ahead/think again? • What do we do now the torch has passed to our generation? • Have we any idea of how we touch one another’s lives and the lives of people we never even meet?

  10. Housing Development(October 6th World Habitat Day) Housing in Co Clare Housing in Africa www.unmillenniumproject.org Who benefits? Who benefits? Who loses? Who loses? Who decides? Who decides? What needs to change and why? Where do I stand?

  11. Websites

  12. Calendar of World Events • Oct 1 International Day of Ageing • Oct 2 International Day of Non-violence • Oct 6 World Habitat Day • Oct 13-19 Chocolate week • Oct 15 Global Hand washing Day and International Day of Rural Women • Oct 16 World Food Day • Oct 17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty • Oct 24 United Nations Day • Oct 24 - 30 Disarmament Week • Oct 31 Breast Cancer Awareness Day • Nov 15 – 22 One World Week (Young People’s Rights/60th Anniversary of UN Declaration of Human Rights (1947) • Nov 16 International Day for Tolerance • Nov 20 Universal Children's Day • Nov 20th Irish Aid DEAC 2008 forum “Driving Development Education” Dublin • Nov 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women • Nov 25 – Dec 10th 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence • Dec 1 World Aids Day • Dec 9 International Anti-corruption Day • Dec 10 Human Rights Day

  13. What’s on in Ennis? • Specsavers will take your old spectacles on behalf of Vision Aid Overseas helping people in the developing countries • Oxfam Bookshop will take your books and sell them to raise funds for overseas development, also recycles mobile phones • Cartridgegreen takes printer cartridges and refills them, saving money, reducing waste

  14. One World, Many visions What’s Your’s?

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