Articles and Journals
Policy and Practice is an Irish-based development education journal worth looking into. Visit the website here www.centreforglobaleducation.com
Rachel Tallon of the Global Education Centre has written an article looking at development education in the curriculum. You can download the article from Vol 2 of this journal:Critical Literacy Journal
Editor's pick for interesting reading for February 2009:
Kate Manzo's paper on how NGOs are often under pressure to use images to obtain funds. Download the paper here.
The CARMA report is an interesting report that looked at how Western media covered disasters in 2002-2005.
Download the report here
Other journals and interesting websites:
Young People's geography is a new UK website that has lots of ideas and activities.
ACME is an on-line international journal for critical and radical analyses of the social, the spatial and the political.
Imaging Famine is a research project that looks at how famine has been represented in the media. Has useful articles and reports on this issue.
The Development Education Association of the UK (www.dea.org.uk) has interesting publications and 'Thinkpieces' which cover a range of interesting topics and are free to download.
The Department for International Development (UK) has a magazine called Developments, which has good information on development from the majority world.
Taking It Global has a great site for global educators thatis worth a visit.
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February-July 2009 Events
* The Aotearoa New Zealand Council for International Development (www.cid.org.nz) run several training courses and workshops for those in the field of development. Download their Training Brochure here.
Their next Dev-ed training workshop is scheduled for November. Details later
* The Institute of Policy Studies (VUW) British High Commission in partnership withOXfam, CID, NZAID and the Britsh High Commission are holding a symposium on the MDGs. 20-21 March 2009, in Wellington. Contact Chris Harrington for further information.
* SOCCON the biannual conference for the Social Sciences is in Christchurch in 2009: 27-29th September. Visit the website here
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| The Forum in June 2008 with the Ministry of Education was well attendedand appreciated by all. If you would like a copy of the presentations please email Rachel Tallon (rachel@globaled.org.nz). |
If you or your organsisation would you like to become a member of AGADEN,
open here for a subscription form for 2008/9. |
Looking for Interesting and useful websites with a focus on statistics? Try these:
www.gapminder.org
www.worldmapper.org
www.nationmaster.org |
The 2008 AGM for AGADEN has been held and we now have a new committee. The new co-chairs are Jennie O'Donovan (GEC) and Ced Simpson (Rights in Education).
Next committee meeting is scheduled for 3rd February 2009, from 2pm, at the CGA, Wellington 2008.
If you would like to know more about AGADEN, download these files:
Main purpose of AGADEN
A history of AGADEN
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