Global Education in Ireland: Critical Histories and Future Directions
Just published and available Open Access from Bloomsbury
We are excited to announce that this open access book was launched at Maynooth University on Tuesday 5th November at a workshop highlighting the importance of radical global education today.
Edited by Eilish Dillon (MU Department of International Development), Niamh Gaynor (DCU, Dublin), Gerard McCann (St. Mary’s, Queen’s University Belfast) and Stephen McCloskey (Centre for Global Education, Belfast), this ground-breaking book brings together leading global education (GE) practitioners and academics to, for the first time, provide a critical history of GE in Ireland. As well as ‘looking back’, it examines the kinds of critical, radical and alternative education we need to address the complex challenges facing our world. In times of genocide, populism, racism and climate change, how can educators build solidarity and action for global justice?
Drawing lessons from the Irish experience of over 50 years of development and global citizenship education, human rights education and education for sustainable development in schools, community groups, in global youth work and in higher education, the book addresses the many facets of GE in Ireland, learning lessons from the past to help to shape education for global justice, equality and sustainability.
The range of topics discussed include: GE and the sustainable development goals; development education and global citizenship education; philosophical and political influences, GE in Ireland in an international context; curriculum development; activism; solidarity; decoloniality, and critical pedagogy. The role of institutions and other stakeholders are discussed as well as challenges for transformative GE policy and practice.
Comprising 26 thematic chapters from 20 practitioners and academics, together with 11 case studies illustrating some of the dynamics and challenges of GE practice over time, the book is particularly useful for practitioners, policymakers and researchers of GE in Ireland and beyond.
Apart from numerous chapters from Eilish Dillon of the Department of International Development, other Maynooth University chapter writers include Bernie Grummell (Department of Adult and Community Education) and Aoife Titley (Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education).
The book is available to download, free of charge by open access from Bloomsbury at: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350380417
Book launch participants and authors