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Global Teachers Award
Level 1
Galway One World CentreVicky Donnelly
Quality or QuantityMeasuring impact on values and attitudes
Development EducationGlobal Justice Education
Education for Global Citizenship
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“I’m not political but...”
Politics is who gets what, when, and
how.”Harold Lasswell (1902 – 1978)
Irish Aid define Development Education as:
“an educational process aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of the rapidly changing, interdependent and unequal world in which we live”
Development / Global Justice Education
• Addresses global concerns, such as the root causes of poverty, inequality, conflict and environmental issues…
• Involves an analysis of power• Builds critical awareness, recognising and
learning from diverse forms of knowledge• Encourages informed solidarity action
Key Concepts
Global CitizenshipSocial Justice
DiversityHuman Rights
InterdependenceSustainable Development
Key Skills: Critical Thinking and Literacy
Subject-links across the curriculumTeacher Resources from Irish Aid
http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/media/irishaid/allwebsitemedia/20newsandpublications/publicationpdfsenglish/global-teachers-pack-english.pdf http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/media/irishaid/allwebsitemedia/20newsandpublications/publicationpdfsenglish/global-teachers-pack-irish.pdf
Why is Global Justice Education important?
Why is it important?
Justice and equality are issues in the classroom – because they’re issues in Irish society…
“The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) received 20 reports of racist incidents in the first 20 days of the year…including a petrol bomb attack and one incident where a boy, aged 9, was assaulted by a 30-year-old man.”
27 January 2014, Irish Examiner
ENAR Ireland: 112 incidents of racism were reported through it’s iReport system in the first three months of 2014
Critical Literacy
“We peddle a curriculum that says 95% of all achievement is European”
Trevor Gordon, head-teacher and winner of the Stephen Lawrence Award for Education 2002
"Britain is an island that helped to abolish slavery, that has invented most of the things worth inventing, including every sport currently played around the world, that still today is responsible for art, literature and music that delights the entire world.”
David Cameron at G20, Sept 2013
Pupils’ attitudes to global learning
Ipsos MORI research with 1,955 pupils from 82middle and secondary schools in 2008
• Only 50% of pupils think it’s a good idea to have people of different backgrounds living in the same country together
• 19% have not discussed news stories from around the world at all at school
• Only 42% believe that what they do in their own lives affects people in other countries
http://www.think-global.org.uk/resources/ Our Global Future: DEA 2008
Linking Local and Global Issues
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/government_finance_statistics/excessive_deficit/supplementary_tables_financial_turmoil
http://notesonthefront.typepad.com/politicaleconomy/2013/01/with-considerable-speculation-about-an-impending-deal-on-bank-debt-with-the-taoiseach-and-the-german-chancellor-jointly-sta.html
Alternatives
• €8,981 per capita on socialised debt
• €139 per capita on overseas development cooperation
Why is it important?
Justice and equality are issues for pupils – because they’re issues in the wider world……and pretty soon they’ll be the ones looking for solutions
Our analysis of the problem determines the solutions we pursue.
Focus on symptoms or root causes? Is endless expansion and accumulation seen as a problem, or assumed to be a solution?Samir Amin: http://monthlyreview.org/2006/03/01/the-millennium-development-goals-a-critique-from-the-south
http://www.stwr.org/poverty-inequality/critiquing-the-millennium-development-goals.html#Sogge
Causes and Symptoms
Response to “the worst drought and famine of
the century”
Live Aid, July 1985: £200m raised
Jubilee Debt Campaign:African countries repaying
£200m every week.
Live Aid, July 1985: £200m raised
“…during the worst drought and famine of the century”
• Aid to Africa fell from $9000m in 1980 to $3,400 in 1984, to $1,200 in 1995
• In 1985 debt servicing cost $9,100m
• Over half of the debt was owed to western governments
Peter Woodward (2013) Sudan After Nimeiri, Routledge
Never Mind the Geldof
.
‘Underdevelopment’
Legitimising Exploitation and the invention of ‘Race’
(Chinua Achebe’s ‘good excuse’)“It is always useful to think badly about people one
has exploited or plans to exploit”. Professor James W. Loewen (1995): Lies My Teacher Told Me The New Press: New York
Upside Down World
5 : 50 : 500
•$5bn voluntary overseas aid to Global South
5 : 50 : 500
•$500 billion• Unfair Trade• Tax Injustice• Illegitimate Debt
Curriculum Linked and Themed Resources http://www.developmenteducation.ie/5-50-500/
Tax Justice Network
Estimates there may be $20 trillion hidden in tax havens, like the Caymen Islands, and…
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d5FZU64BnwPrezi : http://www.tackletaxhavens.com /
Podcasts : http://www.tackletaxhavens.com/taxcast/
Why is it important?
Survival.
Questioning the dominant model of development – and creating a space to explore alternatives
a model of development “…in fundamental conflict with nature.”
(Clow 1994; Foster 2002) (pg. 215) in Veltmeyer, Henry (ed) 2011 The Critical Development Studies Handbook: Tools for Change London:Pluto Press
TINA
“There Is No Alternative”Daily Telegraph 22 May 1980
“There is no such thing as society.” 31st October, 1987
“There Is No Alternative”
We have reached a stage where it is easier to think of the total annihilation of humanity than to imagine a change in the organisation of a manifestly unjust and destructive society. What can we do?
John Holloway (2010,pg. 7)
.“The inescapable failure of a society built upon growth and its destruction of the Earth's living systems [and oppression of vast numbers of people] are the overwhelming facts of our existence.
As a result, they are mentioned almost nowhere.”
George Monbiot
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/27/if-we-cant-change-economtic-system-our-number-is-up
How does the world look to you?Gall-Peters Projection
How does the world look to you?
Taking Action
Making Change
Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid Strike (1984)
Children’s changing attitudes
Age 11
Age 4
Age 11
Initial confused ideas
Biased images from advertisements, the media, parents and peers
Uncritical acceptance of negative stereotypes
Tendency to generalise about people
Prejudice and racism
Positive teaching programme and unbiased images
Better judgement and increasing self esteem
Greater openness and breadth of vision
Willingness to value all people as equal
From Stephen Scoffham (1999) 'Young Children's Perceptions of the World'
Desmond Tutu
“If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”
Wangari Maathai
“It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference.
My little thing is planting trees.”
We Do Have Alternatives