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.
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.
School Gardens and Global Justice, CPD Workshop, Nov 25th 2021
Find the recordings and the presentation of the School Gardens and Global Justice CPD workshop.
Life below Water, Thematic Workshop, Dec 9th 2020
Find the recording of the WWGS workshop for teaching about Food Security and Biodiversity in post-primary schools.
Migration and Direct Provision, Thematic Workshop, Dec 1st 2020
Find the WWGS webinar recording and resources specifically for teaching about Migration and Direct Provision (Sustainable Development Goal 10).
Food Security and Biodiversity, Thematic Workshop, Nov 13th 2020
Find the recording of the WWGS workshop for teaching about Food Security and Biodiversity in post-primary schools.
Geography and Global Citizenship Education, Workshop, Feb 2021
Find the recording of the Strengthening your Global Citizenship Education Workshop for teachers that are familiar with WWGS. Links to the resources shared during the workshop are also included.
Geography and GCE – Curriculum Resources
Find links to articles and material on Geography related topics to use in class when exploring Global Citizenship Education.
Energy, Thematic Workshop, Dec 7th 2020
Watch the recording and find the resources of the workshop on Affordable and Clean Energy Sustainable Development Goal 7.
Tax and Trade, Thematic Workshop, Dec 3rd 2020
Watch the recording and find the resources of the WWGS workshop on Tax and Trade Justice that took place in December 2020.
Sustainability, DeGrowth and Responsible Consumption, Thematic Workshop, Nov 25th 2020
Watch the recording and find the resources of the WWGS thematic workshop on Sustainability, Degrowth and Responsible Consumption relating to Sustainable Development Goal 12.
Recycling and Waste, Thematic workshop, Nov 23rd 2020
Find our most recent webinar recording and resource specifically for Recycling and Waste followed by additional resources to assist you.
Poverty, Thematic Workshop, Nov 19th 2020
Find our most recent webinar recording and resource specifically for Poverty followed by additional resources to assist you.
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.
The World Trade Game
The World Trade Game or the Trading Game is one of the most effective simulation games to enable students realise the inequality of the world trading system.
Gap minder Sort Out Game
A good activity from www.gapminder.org that can be used in Maths or Geography class particularly when exploring Global statistics and development