Deconstructing Development Education
Follow Share What is Development Education? How does it relate to “development” and education, and what is its purpose? The first assignment in the “Principles and Practices of Development Education”...
View ArticleThe dilemma with “adjectival educations”
Follow Share Development education, global education, citizenship education, human rights education, peace education, education for sustainable development – there is an ever increasing number of...
View ArticleGlobal Skills – for what?
Follow Share Which skills are needed for living and working in a global economy? Since some years, the discussion on skills and competences penetrates education (see, for example, European Commissions...
View ArticleHEADS UP checklist By Vanessa de Oliveira (Andreotti)
Follow Share We proudly present the first guest post on this Blog: Vanessa de Oliveira, Global Education chair at the University of Oulu, Finland, writes about a new educational tool – HEADS UP –...
View ArticleIs education a bad thing?
Follow Share I just watched an amazing film, “Schooling the World“, which basically says that school education isn’t an answer to problems of poverty or “development” (whatever this is) but actually...
View ArticleGlobal Learning for Obama – an open letter to the American president
Follow Share Maybe you saw the victory speech of Barack Obama after winning the US elections. He proved again to be a charismatic and inspiring speaker, but he seemed a little, hm, obsessed, by “the...
View ArticleGetting it right – towards a rights based approach to education
Follow Share Children are citizens, with specific characteristics and a potential to contribute to the collective like any other social group. This is not the credo of an obscure child-power movement,...
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