Materials for Primary Education

Dice Project Teaching Materials - (www.diceproject.org)

The Development and Intercultural Education Project - DICE - aims to address the need for global and social justice perspectives within primary education in Ireland. DICE aims to achieve this through promoting an understanding of development and intercultural issues in Initial Teacher Education through collaborative partnerships with all 5 Colleges of Education in the Republic of Ireland, Irish Aid and a number of key Non-Governmental Organisations.

In supporting Primary Education, DICE have developed a series of downloadable thematic teaching materials to assist teachers and educators in approaching development issues in their class/workshop:

Homes Around The World

A project using multi-cultural story books to introduce 1st and 2nd class pupils to the many different types of homes around the world. It allows children to explore a wide variety of homes and to examine the influence of climate, family and culture on types of homes.

See also the new Irish Aid publication "One World, Our World" aimed at 10-12 year olds and introduces 5 or Irish Aid's programme countries in African and Asia

Teaching about 'Natural' Disasters

Support materials for teaching about natural disaster from a development education perspective.

Pathways for Teaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

A resource containing a sequence of lesson ideas for teaching about the MDGs including several classroom activities as well as background information for teachers on the Gals and a list of useful resources and websites referred to in resource to allow further work on the MDGs.

Profiling Children in Eritrea

A teaching 'module' that aims to challenge the stereotypes that young people in Ireland often have of children who live in the developing world. The materials aim to contribute to a wider understanding and empathy of the 'global village' and support teachers with some tools to do so. The module was developed through direct interviews with primary school children in Eritrea.

Global Film Studies Guide

This series of Global Film Study Guides aims at providing information, guidelines and ideas on how to teach films with a global and justice dimension to children. Each of the guides will concentrate on a particular film that is concerned with themes and issues important to our increasingly globalised world. In addition to the provision of necessary background information about the film and its story, some assistance on how to 'read' films is offered by introducing different film techniques. Each guide will also explore ideas of how to teach film to children and provide guidelines for discussions.

Sustainable Development

A workshop on Sustainable Development for staff and students at The Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, Dublin (Workshop led Rachel Kavanagh of EcoUNESCO).

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