The network builds capacity through Dialogue Days and Space for Dialogue.
Our capacity building events such as Dialogue Day and Space for Dialogue provides the network with a platform to engage the education community and the NGO sector in an opportunity to demonstrate innovative and creative approaches to Development Education. These events provide the network with the opportunity to critically reflect on current Development Education policy and practice within the formal and informal education sectors and map out future projects for the Ubuntu network to support and nurture.
Space for Dialogue
During Space for Dialogue, members of the network share research outputs, innovative pedagogical approaches and identify models of best practice within initial teacher education.
Dr Michael Ryan, programme specialist in Education and Human Development at LIT Tipperary presented a project on Place Based Learning in the Geography curriculum through lens of Development Education. To view the presentation, click here
Dialogue Days
In 2008 the first Dialogue Day was held in Limerick. Since then Dialogue Day has become an annual event, where Development Education practitioners, teacher educators and researchers come together to exchange learning, discuss methodologies and outcomes (e.g. critical media literacy for development education, measuring the impact of development education). These discussions also expand the work into the non formal education sector, providing NGOs with an opportunity to engage with the Network. Dialogue Days provide an opportunity to demonstrate innovation and creativity in Development Education work and collectively build capacity.
Ubuntu Network Dialogue Day 1
‘Teacher Education for Sustainable Development: An invitation to Dialogue’ – Clarion Hotel, 4th March 2008
The purpose of Dialogue Day 1 was to provide an opportunity for teacher educators to explore practical ways of developing student teachers’ knowledge, skills and attitudes of issues relating to local and global equality, justice and sustainability. Information and resources used on the day are available to download below.
Ubuntu Network Dialogue Day 2
‘Innovative Pedagogies for Development Education in Teacher Education’
Location - Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, 27-31 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin, 14th April 2008
Ubuntu Network Dialogue Day 3
‘Teacher Education for Sustainable Development: An invitation to Dialogue’ – hosted by the National College of Art and Design
100 Thomas St, Dublin 2 in their School of Design for Industry building.
Ubuntu Network Dialogue Day 4
Building links between Teacher Education and NGOs: making the relationship work for Development Education
Ubuntu Network Dialogue Day 5
Dialogue Day 5 – Critical Media Literacy for Development Education
