Moore Institute, SUAS and IDEA host a one day workshop ‘ Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Citizenship Education’

The Moore Institute at NUIG, SUAS and IDEA are delighted to invite you to a one-day workshop on Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Citizenship Education. The workshop will be held at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, on Monday 27 June, 10:45 am – 3:45 pm.

The aim of the day is to promote dialogue, sharing and collaboration between researchers and practitioners in the area of non-discriminatory Global Citizenship Education, with a particular focus on gender issues, young people, and Southern & postcolonial perspectives. The day will be facilitated by Momodou Sallah, Dalene Swanson and Su Ming Khoo. Artist Eimear McNally will help us to creatively interweave our insights.

Please join us for what promises to be a rich and challenging conversation amongst a diverse group of Global Citizenship Education researchers and practitioners. The event is free but you must register in advance with Susan@ideaonline.ie. We hope to see you on the 27th!

UNIFY-SDG

University-Based Research and Education for Youth Solidarity and Equality toward the SDGs

Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Citizenship Education:

A Dialogue between Researchers and Practitioners

Monday 27 June, Moore Institute hardinamn Buidling THB G10, NUIG, 10:45 – 3:45

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee and registration

11:00 – 11:20 Welcome and introduction to UNIFY-SDG project: Su-ming Khoo, NUIG, Frank Geary, IDEA and Jo Malone, Suas Educational Development, Eimear McNally: knowledge capture

11:20 -11:30 Ice-breaker incorporating participants’ expectations for the day.

11:30 – 12:50 Young people, inclusion and exclusion in global citizenship education: Southern perspectives

• In what ways can young people participate more in research and practice on GCE?
• How are Southern and post-colonial perspectives reflected in our research and practice of GCE?

12:50 – 1:50 Lunch

1:50 – 3:00 ‰Û÷Gender and its intersection with other types of non-discrimination’. Su-ming Khoo, NUIG, and Dalene Swanson, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow

3:00- 3:45 if running late Closing session:

• Visual feedback: Eimear McNally
• Plenary discussion: Chair: Jo Malone, Suas: Research and Practice working together to advance non-discriminatory GCE
• Action points and closing: Chair Susan Gallwey, IDEA

About our facilitators:

Dr Momodou Sallah is Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester. His areas of interest and expertise include cultural competency, global youth work, youth participation, diversity, black young people and young Muslims. In November 2015, Momodou was named the ‰Û÷most innovative teacher in the UK’ in the Times Higher Education Awards.

Dr Dalene Swanson is a senior academic at the University of Stirling. She is interested in critical global citizenship, postcoloniality, indigenous thought, post-foundational methodologies, dance and mathematics education.

Dr Su-ming Khoo teaches and researches at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her interests include postcolonial development studies, public advocacy and activism, human rights and the ethics of higher education.

Eimear McNally is an illustrator and facilitator working mainly in the area of live graphic recording and visual facilitation. She has many years of experience in Education for Global Citizenship, and she is passionate about bringing creativity and new ways of seeing into our work and our lives.

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UNIFY-SDG is funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations programme