Comhlámh is delighted to share that our CEO, Caroline Murphy, has contributed to the latest special issue of Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, writing on the crucial question: How Can the Development Education Sector Re-connect with its Radical Roots? This piece is part of a special collection marking the journal’s twentieth anniversary in 2025.
Published by the Centre for Global Education, Policy and Practice is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that has been a cornerstone for debate, research, and reflection in the development education sector for two decades. To celebrate this milestone, the journal issued a special call for short, incisive articles on The Future of Development Education. Our CEO’s contribution offers a compelling analysis of the challenges facing the sector and the urgent need to reclaim its transformative potential in addressing global injustices.
This special edition follows the recent Issue 39: Development Education Silences, which highlighted critical gaps in the sector’s response to pressing global crises, including the climate emergency, widening inequalities, and the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. In that issue Caroline looked at Development Education and Palestine: Confronting the Non-Response. Building on this discourse, the Centre for Global Education, in the upcoming Issue 40, seeks to ignite fresh thinking on the way forward for development education.
Caroline Murphy’s article calls on educators, activists, and policymakers to reflect on how development education can move beyond its current limitations and reclaim its radical roots. Her contribution underscores Comhlámh’s ongoing commitment to critical engagement, social justice, and solidarity with global struggles.
We encourage all those working in development education to engage with this important collection of articles to stimulate debate and inspire action.
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