KADE - A One World Centre
KADE aims to promote and support DE in County Kerry. It operates a DE resource centre with a well stocked resource lending library, located at 11 Denny Street, Tralee. A periodic newsletter is issued and a website maintained, www.kade.ie. Centre services include provision of outreach DE sessions for primary classes on a range of topics and provision of annual summer in-service courses in collaboration with Tralee Education Centre.

KADE also conducts research into aspects of DE good practice and produces DE resource materials, such as -‘Dimensions of Development ’, a primary teachers’ resource pack (available on KADE website ). This pack aims to respond to the need for ideas and sources of information on development and intercultural issues. It provides 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.

 

The KADE Development Education Photopack, Volume 1 has been developed as an educational resource to assist teachers to explore different themes of development in current-day Ireland. The photopack has been produced with the assistance of the Institute of Technology, Tralee, Co. Kerry and is available on a CD (€20), email: info@kade.ie to order.

 

KADE has also produced poster on the Millennium Development Goals. The poster has been provided to Kerry schools for display (see KADE website) and is used when the DE officer is visiting schools.

 

KADE is the Irish partner in a EuropeAid funded DE project entitled ‘Accessing Development Education ’.This project aims at promoting Development Education within the educational sector across Europe, focusing specifically on Lithuania, Cyprus, Scotland, Ireland and Bulgaria, 2008-11. This project acknowledges the fact that highly valuable Development Education material has been developed, however it recognises the difficulties of teachers and educators to access the existent material, as well as to apply these resources to their local or national educational context. More specifically, the project addresses the lack of access to, as well as the need for, Development Education material by teachers, particularly primary teachers, educators, youth trainers and other actors across Europe, and especially in those countries that have joined the EU only recently.

 

 Intended Project Results:
• Development Education material adapted to local needs, in accordance with educational curricula in Cyprus, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Scotland and Ireland;
• A European collection of case studies, best practice and general Development Education materials reviewed, modified and adapted by an international educational advisory committee and made accessible through the web;
• A trans-national network of schools and educators jointly working to integrate Development Education into schools;
• Schools and teachers trained to use Development Education material in their lesson plans, thereby serving as multipliers.

 

Contact KADE for further information.