What Climate Change Brings to the Development Education Agenda

[marian farrell]

What Climate Change Brings to the Development Education Agenda

What Climate Change Brings to the Development Education Agenda is the title of
an upcoming Centre for Global Education seminar, which will be held

Tuesday, 23
November at the Junction in Derry from 10:00am
to 4pm.

In this workshop, David Selby, global educator and co-editor of the just-published book, Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times, will argue that runaway
climate change calls for a serious revisiting of the assumptions, key messages,
frameworks and focuses of development (and global) education.

Climate change cannot be laid aside by
development educators as being an ‘environmental’ issue and, hence,
peripheral to their field of vision. He will argue that the climate
threat raises fundamental questions about the human condition that are central
to development education and to all its ‘sister’ educations.

The workshop will be highly interactive with much of the time given over to activities and discussion but with short presentations scattered throughout. Participants will go away with a
portfolio of activities for use in teacher and community education and the
school classroom. The workshop involves a collaboration between the
Centre for Global Education and Sustainability Frontiers.

For more information and to register please contact Jenna Coriddi, Training and Research Officer: [e-mail], tel: [phone].