Publications
Questioning Education
A Discussion Paper
"Effective education about the issues that affect us all is crucial to achieving a greater awareness of the world we share... I want to see the teaching of global issues given more weight in our schools and colleges... For it is only through education that we wi…
Young People's Experiences of Global Learning
An Ipsos MORI Research Study on behalf of DEA
This report presents findings from the 2008 Survey of Secondary School Pupils, carried out by Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute on behalf of DEA. The study gathered information regarding school pupils' perceptions of global issues, in particular: …
Global Matters
Case studies of education for a just and sustainable world
Global Matters celebrates just some of the exciting examples of global learning going on around the country in schools, youth work and communities. The case studies show active and participatory approaches that engage learners and encourage critical thinking about a range of impo…
The Global University
The role of senior managers
The Global University: The Role of Senior Manager is written by higher education institution senior managers, for HEI senior managers. Supported by HEFCE Leadership, Governance a…
Building Local Capacity to Broaden Engagement (2)
Report of 2nd DEA Practice Sharing Event
A peer learning Practice Sharing Day was held on 20 March 2008 as part of the European Commission Capacity Building Project “Building Local Capacity to Broaden Engagement in Global Issues”, a three year project funded by the European Commission. Within the terms of the pr…
Building Local Capacity to Broaden Engagement (1)
Report of DEA Practice Sharing Event
A peer learning Practice Sharing Day was held on 26 September 2007 as part of the European Commission Capacity Building Project “Building Local Capacity to Broaden Engagement in Global Issues”, a three year project funded by the European Commission. Within the terms of the…
Thinking about linking?
DEA Thinkpiece
The DEA commissions Thinkpieces to create debate on issues related to policy, theory and practice. In this Thinkpiece, Margaret Burr asks: What sort of thinking goes into linking? How much thinking really does go into linking? Do we do enough thinking about l…
Why ‘global learning’ ? & thinking about a new DEA
DEA Thinkpiece
The DEA commissions Thinkpieces to create debate on issues related to policy, theory and practice. In this Thinkpiece, Scott Sinclair responds to the request for contributions to discussion about the DEA’s future priorities and considers the potential of a n…
DEA Annual Review 06-07
DEA works to change the education system through focusing upon three strategic areas: policy, profile and practice. This Annual Review looks back over the DEA's work during the financial year 06/07 in those three areas. A document to accompany this Annual Revi…
The Importance of Humanities Subjects
DEA Thinkpiece
The DEA commissions Thinkpieces to create debate on issues related to policy, theory and practice. In this Thinkpiece, David Lambert argues that the humanities are essential to education for a just and sustainable world. He focuses on the importance of subject…
Enjoyment as a basis for learning: the new secondary National Curriculum and the Specialised Diplomas
DEA Thinkpiece
The DEA commissions Thinkpieces to create debate on issues related to policy, theory and practice. In this Thinkpiece, Nigel Rayment considers the extent to which the new secondary National Curriculum and the Specialised Diplomas might provide opportunities to…
Contributions of postcolonial theory to development education, The
DEA Thinkpiece
The DEA commissions Thinkpieces to create debate on issues related to policy, theory and practice. In this extended Thinkpiece, Vanessa Andreotti introduces the field of post-colonial theory and explores the potential contributions of this area to development …
DECs Conference Report 2007
A report of the Development Education Centres national conference held at Cheshire DEC from 22-23 March 2007.…
Global Skills and Lifelong Learning: Future challenges
The DEA published The Global Learning Challenge: Strengthening global perspectives in lifelong learning in 2002. It presented the case for integrating global perspec…
DEA Photolibraries briefing
Sourcing and using images for Development Education
Is ‘a picture worth a thousand words’? If so, how much should you pay and where can you find that picture? Finding good images to help you communicate development education, whether for your organisation’s website, publishing educational materials or r…
Leadership Practices in Lifelong Learning in a Global Society
Report of a research project funded by the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL)
The focus of this research is the contribution development education perspectives make to leadership practices in lifelong learning for a global society. Its purposes are summarised as follows: - an examination of the contribution experience of the us…
Global University, The
The Role of the Curriculum
Authors: Doug Bourn, Aileen McKenzie, Chris Shiel The Global University: The Role of the Curriculum argues that high quality higher education should be concerned with preparing students - ethically and intellectually - for acti…
The Arts: The Global Dimension
Key Stages 3 & 4
This booklet aims to show how the global dimension to arts education can enrich classroom teaching and learning in Art and design, Dance, Drama and Music. The global dimension:- explores the ways individuals, communities and cultures shape and are shaped by others locall…
Graduates As Global Citizens
Quality education for life in the 21st century
Graduates as Global Citizens was a groundbreaking conference at which 63 higher education institutions and DEA member organisations were represented. It was hosted by the DEA in partnership with key stakeholders in the sector: the Standing Conference of vic…
DEA Annual Review 2005-2006
In the summer of 2005 international development and global issues had their highest public profile for many years. This annual report looks back over 2005-06 and, as well as providing a fiinancial report, outlines how far the DEA has progressed towards achieving goals such as:…
Active Faith
Global Citizenship and Learning for the Future
A report of the DEA seminar held on 21 June 2006. The seminar aimed to motivate faith communities to contribute to raising awareness and deepening understanding of global citizenship and sustainable development. Specific objectives were: to rev…
Every Child Matters and the Global Dimension
Report of the DfES/DEA seminar held on 19 June 2006
The DfES International Strategy, Putting the World into World-Class Education (DfES, 2004) includes the priority ‘To instil a strong global dimension into the learning experience of all children and young people’. Due to the importance of the Every Chil…
World in our Neighbourhood, The
Black and ethnic minority communities and development education
The first major review of development education and the views and perceptions of the black and ethnic minority communities in Britain, based on interviews, focus groups and general discussion with a range of …
Strengthening Global Perspectives in Adult Learning
Building on the policy document The Global Learning Challenge (2002), in 2003 the DEA invited further education colleges to apply for a small grant of £1,500 to develop one-year pilot projects to incorporate global perspectives into their course planning, curricul…
Global in the Local
What MPs can do to promote understanding of international development issues in their constituencies
This publication will be useful to Members of Parliament, policy advisers and all those engaged in making connections between international development issues and local activities and actions in their constituencies. By identifying key issues and examples of communities' acti…
The time is right!
Put Development Education at the heart of all learning
A call to decision-makers across the UK produced by the four UK Development Education Networks - DEA, IDEAS, Cyfanfyd and CADA…
Global Youth Work Training and Practice Manual
This resource manual offers the opportunity for youth workers, development educators, peer educators and youth work trainers to acquire the skills, knowledge and confidence to make global perspectives an integral part of work with young people. It is packed with ma…
Delivering an International Curriculum for Youth Work
A report of a national conference organised by the DEA, the Joint Agencies Group (JAG), and the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services in September 1994. The conference debated the question 'what do we mean by the international dimension to youth work' throu…
World of Difference, A
Making global connections in youth work
Young people have shown their concern about the inequalities that exist in the world for many years. This key report by the DEA argued that this concern needed to be recognised with the youth service through closer cooperation wi…
Guidelines on Producing Resources for Global Youth Work
These guidelines are aimed at those working with young people who are interested in planning, developing and publishing resources for global youth work, for example, youth workers and managers in the statutory sector, staff and y…
Sustainable Development and Youth Work
This briefing paper, produced jointly by the Development Education Association and the Council for Environmental Education, aims to explain how and why the concept of sustainable development can be integrated into current youth w…
Global Youth Work
Improving Practice Series
The impact of globalisation and international activities on young people's lives can be direct or indirect but it is difficult to deny this exists. We all live in a society connected to the rest of the world on a daily basis, by …
Young People in a Global Society
This briefing and discussion paper presents the case for why global issues are integral to the design and delivery of youth work in the UK. It has been published jointly by the DEA, NYA, Youth Link Scotland, Cyngo…
Working With School Governors
A briefing sheet for DEA members working with schools. Outlines the benefits of working with school governors and explains through examples why governors should encourage their schools to develop a global dimension.…
Guidelines on producing development education resources
Written for those organisations and individuals who work with schools and colleges, and who produce, or are thinking of producing resources which incorporate a development education perspective. These guidelines draw on the experience of many of the people involved i…
Schools Resources on the Contribution of Refugees to Society
A report of a seminar convened by DEA on behalf of the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA). The seminar brought together DEA members and partner organisations engaged in supporting refugee communities and promoting the understanding of refugee issues within education. …
Guidance for Key Stages 1 & 2
Global Perspectives in the National Curriculum series
First of a series of guidance booklets for teachers, teacher trainers, advisors and development educators showing how a global dimension can form part of everyday classroom activities. Introduces teachers to a perspective in the National Curriculum in England that dev…
English - Guidance for Key Stages 3 & 4
Global Perspectives in the National Curriculum series
A booklet for teachers, teacher trainers and development educators offering guidance on teaching and learning about development and global issues in the English classroom. This booklet provides an introduction to global awareness through the English curriculum in Engl…
Modern Foreign Languages - Guidance for Key Stages 3 & 4
Global Perspectives in the National Curriculum series
A booklet for teachers, teacher trainers and development educators offering guidance on teaching and learning about development and global issues in the Languages classroom. This booklet provides an introduction to developing global awareness through the Modern Foreig…
History - Guidance for Key Stage 3
Global Perspectives in the National Curriculum series
A booklet for teachers, teacher trainers and development educators offering guidance on teaching and learning about development and global issues in the History classroom. This booklet provides an introduction to developing global awareness through the History curricu…
Geography - Guidance for Key Stage 3
Global Perspectives in the National Curriculum series
A booklet for teachers, teacher trainers and development educators offering guidance on teaching and learning about development and global issues in the Geography classroom. The booklet provided an introduction to developing global awareness through the Geography curr…
Science - Guidance for Key Stages 3 & 4
Global Perspectives in the National Curriculum series
A booklet for teachers, teacher trainers and development educators offering guidance on teaching and learning about development and global issues in the Science classroom. This booklet provides an introduction to developing global awareness through science, shows how …
Literacy: the Global Perspectives
An information sheet for development educators, advisers, teacher trainers and teachers offering guidance on teaching and learning about development and global issues through the literacy at Key Stages 1 & 2. The leaflet briefly explores opportunities for develo…
Human Rights - Guidance for Key Stages 2 & 3
Global Perspectives in the National Curriculum series
A handbook for teachers, teacher trainers and development educators offering guidance on teaching and learning about human rights in the classroom. Published jointly by the DEA and the Education in Human Rights Network, this guidance aims to alert teachers to the pote…
Citizenship Education: The Global Dimension
A practical guidance booklet exploring what is meant by the global dimension across all areas of the citizenship curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. Sets out global dimension to Citizenship programmes of study, looks in depth at the three strands of citizenship: political litera…
Science: The Global Dimension
Published by the Development Education Association in partnership with the Association for Science Education, this booklet has been written to enable teachers and advisors to consider the value of addressing the global dimension in science education. The global dimension to sc…
Geography: The Global Dimension
The global dimension in geography could be taken to mean learning about places or themes at the global scale. However, global understanding requires more than describing the world. The global dimension is concerned with exploring interconnections between people and places.…
Framework for the International Dimension for Schools in England
This leaflet aims to demonstrate to educational policy makers at local and national level, advisers, governors, professional associations, headteachers and other agencies why the international dimension is important. It sets out what we mean by the 'international dime…
Principles and Practice for Development Education Practitioners Working With Schools
This leaflet briefly sets out eight axioms to guide development education work within schools. It aims to provide a framework and a checklist for those planning development education resources and activities and in measuring the impact of this work. It sets out…
Developing the Global Dimension in the School Curriculum
This booklet was originally developed by DfES, DFID, DEA, QCA and the British Council and has now been revised by the same consortium. It is aimed at primary and secondary headteachers, senior managers, governors, local education authorities, teachers (including …