AONTAS, the Irish National Association of Adult Education, recently commissioned research called 'Integrating Development into Adult Education', which is now available.

 

Two Kerry-based primary school teachers, Treasa Ní Eachthigheirn & Nell Ní Chathasaigh, are currently working on an educational project in Haiti on behalf of Hibernia College (a KADE member).

 

 

ITT student Alan Burns is in Nepal with just-one and The Omprakash Foundation. We've been following his blog:

 

Congress's biennial Conference visits Tralee. ICTU has been promoting its Development Education project, Global Solidarity, widely at the Conference. The aim of the project is to strengthen Congress' and the affiliated unions' international solidarity work, as well as to play an important role in raising awareness of the causes of exploitation, inequality, poverty and climate change.

 

Aontas, the National Adult Learnign Organisation, has published a report on Adult Education in Ireland. The report sets out to examine the extent to which development education is understood in the adult and community education sector and to explore how adult educators might be supported in integrating development education into its work and processes using active citizenship as the main focus.

KADE delivered a workshop on teaching about fair trade to 18 Bulgarian teachers in Sofia, on Feb. 17 and 18, as part of a training project to introduce Development Education to educators in the EU accession countries of Bulgaria, Lithuania and Cyprus.

Mr. Peter Power, T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs with responsibility for Overseas Development Aid  officially opened the KADE photographic exhibition, ‘Visions of Africa’ in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick on Thursday, February 5 at 7:00 p.m. Mary Immaculate College of Education President Peadar Cremin invited KADE to display the exhibit in the college.

Kerry Mayor Tom Fleming was presented a copy of with the KADE Millennium Development Goals information poster Monday, Oct 13, 2008 in Council Chambers in Tralee by KADE Chairman Sean Lyons and KADE Education Officer Ciara O’Connor. The poster forms part of KADE’s Co. Kerry awareness campaign about the UN Goals. They will be circulated to every school in Kerry, as well as community development organisations, churches, businesses and posted on the KADE website. The Goals, which relate to basic development  essentials such as education and health, were set by the UN in 2000 with an intended achievement date in 2015.

 

 

KADE (Kerry Action For Development Education) launched Development Photopack Volume 1 at IT Tralee on Tuesday November 25th, 2008. “KADE is delighted and proud to be part of this partnership with IT Tralee” declared KADE chairperson, Seán Lyons. Gratefully acknowledging students’ contribution to the work and their consciousness of inequalities in our society, he continued “Students have certainly put the action into development in Kerry.”

25 teachers and teacher trainers from Cyprus, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Scotland and Ireland participated in a workshop on Development Education in Kaunas/ Lithuania from the 19th until the 23rd of October, 2008. The workshop was part of the EuropeAid funded project ‘Accessing Development Education’, coordinated by Future Worlds Center (Cyprus) in partnership with Youth Career and Advising Centre (Lithuania), ScotDec (Scotland), KADE (Ireland) and C.E.G.A. (Bulgaria). The project’s main aim is to engage educators and schools in Development Education activities and equip them with relevant training and materials, thus making them promoters and multipliers of national campaigns that aim to create awareness about Development and about global interdependencies.

‘Visions of Africa 2008’ invited amateurs and professionals alike to submit images with a positive portrayal of Africa. A maximum of five images per applicant could be submitted, in high resolution digital format, at least 300 dpi at print size approx 297mm x 210mm (A4). The photographer was asked to include a short biography, personal contact details and a title for every image with a short introduction to each photograph. Photos not including written details were deemed ineligible.

 

 

This booklet aims to respond to the need for ideas and sources of information on development and intercultural issues. Designed to provide primary teachers with a sampling of active learning methodologies that feature aspects of various cultures and countries, it also contains lists of websites and contact organisations for further information.

This issue it's a shorter, yet informative version.

 

The theme of this issue is Sustainable Development. We look at some of the key concepts and ideas, and provides some suggestions for incorporating ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) into the primary classroom environment.