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

80:20

80:20

80:20

“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

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‘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

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Vicky Donnelly

education@galwayowc.orgwww.galwayowc.org