DEA - promoting education for a sustainable and just world

DEA is an education charity that promotes global learning. We work to ensure that people in the UK learn about global issues such as poverty and climate change and develop an open-minded, global outlook.

Our present focus is on schools and youth work. We work to change what people learn and how they learn, through influencing policy and improving educators' practice. Our national network of member organisations and supporters share our conviction that the role of education today is crucial in shaping a better tomorrow.

 

DEA's members include many large development and environment NGOs, as well as a wide network of Development Education Centres and education NGOs based locally around the UK.

 

Our vision is for all citizens to understand the global challenges we face and develop the capabilities to create a more just and sustainable world.

 

If you support our vision of education and would like to stay in touch, you can subscribe to our alerts.

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Enter our survey... and win chocolate!

Tell us what you think of the Global Dimension Website... and get the chance to win fair trade chocolate!

DEA's Global Dimension Website is a teacher's online guide to books, films, posters and web resources supporting global, intercultural and environmental understanding.

 

We'd love get your views about the site - we want to find out more about who's using it, what they think of it, and, most importantly, how we can make it better. So please help us by completing our online survey - and please encourage colleagues and other teachers to complete it as well.

 

There are only 11 questions and it should take about five minutes to complete. If you need any extra incentive, there's some chocolate on offer. The first three names & addresses pulled out of our 'hat' when the survey closes will get sent a Divine Indulgence pack from the Divine Fairtrade Chocolate Company. (This is not just chocolate... it's chocolate-coated apricots, mango slices and brazil nuts as well!)

 

To complete the survey, please follow the link below.
» www.surveymonkey.com/s/gdwebsitesurvey

 

The deadline for completion has been extended to 17 September 2010.

 

News

02/09/2010 Three new case studies

We've recently added three new case studies to the website, showing great global learning in action.

 

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23/06/2010 Engaging the public with global poverty event

The first of a series of round tables events flowing on from the Global Learning Charter, was hosted by the Earl of Sandwich in the House of Lords yesterday (22nd June).

Lord Sandwich welcomed senior representatives of the major development NGOs, as well as Charter signatories, academics, and policymakers from the Department for International Development (DFID).

 

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02/09/2010 The role of the UK in global poverty reduction

A new paper by Chatham House  written by Kevin Watkins looks at the role of the UK in global poverty reduction. Their research shows that whilst half of ‘opinion-formers' see increased aid as part of an ethical foreign policy for achieving influence in the world, only 29% of the public endorse the view that the government is right to protect aid from public spending cuts.

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24/08/2010 New DFID research on public attitudes to development

The Department for International Development (DFID) has recently released a report of its latest wave of research into public attitudes to international development, conducted in February 2010.

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