Articles and Journals

Conflict, controversy, and complexity: Avoiding the ‘slippery stuff’ in social studies.

This article by New Zealander Bronwyn Wood looks at why social studies teachers often avoid teaching those difficult topics. Follow this link to retrieve the article:Critical Literacy Journal

Other journals and interesting websites:

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.

July - December 2008 Events

The DRC Events calendar is a great poster. Download 2008 here

* 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.

* The DEVNET conference is from 3-5th December 2008 at Victoria University. Visit here for details: Peripheral Vision Conference

* SOCCON the biannual conference for the Social Sciences is in Christchurch in 2009: 27-29th September.