Quality Education

Education is a public good, a global common good, a fundamental human right and a basis for guaranteeing the realisation of other rights.

Poverty

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made but the way that it is spoken about and particularly how people living in poverty are spoken about, does not reflect this.

Land Grabs

In today’s world landowners, agribusinesses, investors and governments want to acquire land to turn into crop plantations to make huge profits.

Racial Justice

Racism is when an individual, group, structure or institution intentionally (or unintentionally) abuses their power to the detriment of people, because of their action or perceived “racialised background. 

Migration and Seeking Asylum

Globally there are more people on the move than ever before. These are people who were mostly forced to flee their own countries due to climate change, demographics, instability, growing inequality, terrorism, conflict and aspirations for a better life.

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Doing Development Education in Junior Cycle Geography

This resource in pdf aims to support Geography teachers to teach using Development Education/ Global Citizenship Education’s approaches and techniques. The guide meets the requirements as laid out in the junior cycle Geography Studies specification, and in the (2015) Framework for Junior Cycle.

Water

Here’s a few resources you can use if you are exploring water as a theme.

Geography Resources

Here’s a few recommended resources for discussing Global Citizenship Education issues in Geography.

A Sporting Chance

An Oxfam cross curricular resource based on the Olympics but easily adaptable to other sporting events and a lot of great activities here.