Seminar: Innovations in Development Education

CENTRE FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION, invites you to a development education seminar: Innovations in Development Education

Venue: Room 207, Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, Followed by a light lunch

Speakers: Dr. Roland Tormey (University of Limerick) & Roisin Corcoran (University of Limerick)

Overview of Seminar Theme:This seminar follows the launch of the recent publication of Issue 10 of the Centre for Global Education’s journal Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review, which is on the theme of Innovations in Development Education.  The issue describes recent research and projects that aim to develop and strengthen the sector. 

We have invited journal contributors Roland Tormey and Roisin Corcoran of the University of Limerick to present articles that review innovative work in development education and discuss how their ideas can be effectively integrated into development education delivery.   

Roland Tormey, in his article with Nancy Serrano ‘Situated learning methodologies for activism in development education and education for sustainable development’, presents cognitive apprenticeship; knowledge building; and problem-based learning as methodologies to integrate DE and ESD into the post-primary curriculum in Ireland. 

Roisin Corcoran, in her article with Roland Tormey ‘Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education’, looks at the role of emotional competencies in supporting a global citizenship or development education perspective in student teachers’ practice.   

The two articles address challenges of integrating development education into formal and informal education, such as the difficulty of incorporating an action-orientation into the existing curriculum and the lack of focus on emotional intelligence in teacher education regarding moral or ‘pro-social’ movements such as development education. 

The articles can be viewed online: Tormey/Serrano article: http://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue10-focus3

 Corcoran/Tormey article: http://www.nuigalway.ie/dern/documents/41_roisin_corcoran_and_roland_tormey.pdf

Background: This seminar has been organised as part of the Centre for Global Education’s ‘Building Capacity in the Development Education Sector in Ireland’ funded by Irish Aid.  The aim of the project is to enhance communication, improve practice and strengthen capacity in the development education (DE) sector through the delivery of three activities: 

·         The publication of a development education journal

·         Organisation of an annual development education conference

·         Delivery of two development education training seminars per annum.

The aim of the seminars is to focus on aspects of development education practice which will benefit local educators and organisations involved in DE.  The seminars also look to support the work of the journal by featuring facilitators who have contributed to the most recent issue of the journal.

Speakers:

Dr. Roland Tormey is Head of the Department of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Limerick.  His research on development education and related topics has been published nationally and internationally and he played a central role in the development and writing of the NCCA Intercultural Education Guidelines for Primary and Post-primary schools (which won a Media and Multiculturalism Award in 2006, and a citation from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe). He is academic coordinator of Ubuntu Network: Teacher Education for Sustainable Development and National Contact Point for the RCE Ireland - the Irish Regional Centre for Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development.

 Roisin Corcoran is a University of Limerick Advanced Scholar and a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Education and Professional Studies. She is a certified administrator for the MSCEIT psychometric test emotional intelligence test and is a member of the ‘Limerick Teacher Education Research Group’, ‘Development Education Research Group’, and the ‘Physical Education Association of Ireland’. Her research interests include Multicultural Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Inequality, and Teaching as an Emotive Experience. 

Registration: Registration Form

To register please complete and return the attached registration form to: jenna@centreforglobaleducation.com. 

This event is free of charge; however registration is necessary as space is limited.  Places will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. 

Please note that space is limited for this seminar and these will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. 

For further information contact: Jenna Coriddi, Centre for Global Education, 9 University Street, Belfast,
BT7 1FY, jenna@centreforglobaleducation.com, +44 (0)28 9024 1879