Today’s learners are faced with an unprecedented set of global and local development challenges, yet so much education on offer is based on yesterday’s thinkers, ideas and lessons. This book argues that development education should be embedded into the curriculum, where it has the potential to strengthen democracy and create a more equal society.

Mags Liddy is coordinator of the IDEA Research Community (part of the Irish Development Education Association) and a PhD candidate at the University of Limerick. She was a Research Associate with the Ubuntu Network from 2006 to 2010. Marie Parker-Jenkins is Professor of Education in the Department of Education and Professional Studies and Director of the Research Centre for Education and Professional Practice at the University of Limerick.

«‘Education that Matters’ is a huge contribution towards the nurturing of the needed communities and cultures we must invent. The editors have searched and found successful case studies of Development Education programmes that both inspire and work. The book has powerful stories that reveal high academic goals and standards, a strong sense of usefulness and the possibility of adaptation and replication.» (Charles Hopkins, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair, York University, Toronto) «[...] this publication offers a number of excellent examples of how teachers, teacher educators and policy makers can embed DE in schools, and how such a focus can support learners to realise and address their interconnectedness to local and global issues of social justice, equality and power.» (Benjamin Mallon, Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review 17, 2013)

Contents: Charles Hopkins: Foreword – Marie Parker-Jenkins/Mags Liddy: Why This Book?: Rationale and Organisation of the Book – Marie Parker-Jenkins/Mags Liddy: Introduction – Mags Liddy/Roland Tormey: A Question of Knowledge – Martin Fitzgerald: Development Education: Moral Challenge or Educational Opportunity? – Audrey Bryan: Using Development-themed Film to Promote a Pedagogy of Discomfort – Michael Ryan: Development Education as Place Based Learning – Fiona King: Merging the Aesthetic With the Issue: Exploring Development Education Through a Visual Arts Lens – Charlotte Holland/Carmel Mulcahy: Information Communication Technology and Development Education – Elaine Nevin: A Whole School Approach – Marie Parker-Jenkins/Mags Liddy: Final Thoughts.