We are delighted read Issue 29 of the Centre for Global Education’s bi-annual, open access, peer reviewed, development education journal Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review. The theme of Issue 29 is ‘Development Education and Gender’ and puts the issues of feminism and gender very firmly on the development education radar. As Siobhán Madden says in her Guest Editorial, this issue is timely as feminist activists are strategising ahead of the ‘Beijing +25’ conferences to be held in 2020 in Mexico City and Paris, for resistance to neoliberalism and climate change.
Issue 29 features several timely and engaging contributions that seek to energise and broaden the conversation about gender in the development education sector. The articles address the issue theoretically and in the context of practice in Ireland and the global South.
Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review Issue 29:
Development Education and Gender
GUEST EDITORIAL
The Importance of Feminist Development Education Through Neoliberal Times
Siobhán Madden
FOCUS
Connecting the Personal and the Political: Feminist Perspectives on Development Education
Eilish Dillon
NGOs and the Political Economy of International Development and Development Education: An Irish Perspective
Ronaldo Munck and Tanja Kleibl
Assessing Microfinance as a means of Socioeconomic Empowerment for Vulnerable Women in Jordan
Erin Welsh
Women on the Frontlines of Resistance to Extractivism
V’cenza Cirefice and Lynda Sullivan
PERSPECTIVES
“Doing Gender" Differently: A Collaborative Experience with Trócaire’s Development Education and International Departments
Áine O’Driscoll and Carol Wrenn
Teachers’ Professional Identities and Development Education
Gerry Jeffers and Nigel Quirke-Bolt
Latin America in the Spanish Classroom: Learning and Teaching Solidarity in Secondary Schools
Marina Minussi Franco and Tomás Lynch
VIEWPOINT
Why the Migrant ‘Crisis’ is an Opportunity: Remittances, Aid and Global Responsibility
Niamh Gaynor
The Sustainable Development Goals, Neoliberalism and NGOs: It’s Time to Pursue a Transformative Path to Social Justice
Stephen McCloskey
RESOURCE REVIEWS
Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession: Local Resistance in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa
Review by Terry Dunne
The Novel as a Form of Development Education
Review by Douglas Hamilton
When They See Us
Review by Stephen McCloskey