Dialogue Day 2024

Priority Conversations and Pedagogy for GCE

Dialogue Day brings Network members and colleagues together in a safe space to share, consider and explore their experiences of teaching and engaging in GCE. It provides a variety of perspectives and new lenses through which to reflect upon teaching and professional practice.

Date: June 12th 2024

Location: Hodson Bay, Roscommon Road, Athlone, N37 XR82

Flip through the Dialogue Day Handbook below:

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AGENDA

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Registration, welcome, coffee and catch-ups!

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Ubuntu Matters

Sharing of emerging areas of work within the Network including the development of a Communications Strategy, establishing priority GCE areas for exploration and members’ needs.

10:40 AM – 11:50 AM

The Role of digital technology in informing young people on GCE related issues

Ollie McGarr (SoE, UL) and Mark Malone (Hope and Courage Collective)

11:50 AM – 12:20 PM

Break, coffee…time for a walk?

12:20 PM – 1:10 PM

Modelling GCE (Parallel Workshops)

GCE in the English Classroom: Exploring social issues through an ‘encounter’ with poetry – Rachel Lenihan (UL)

Knowing me, Knowing You: Reflection, storytelling and empathy as pathways to learning within GCE – Brenda Gallagher and Kathryn Moore (UoG)

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Lunch, group photograph

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Getting creative with Dissemination

3:15 PM

Finish

For more information, contact our Network Coordinator:

deirdre.hogan@ul.ie

RESOURCES FROM THE DAY

Please find below presentations of the event speakers

The role of digital technology in informing young people on GCE related issues

Ollie McGarr (SoE, UL)

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Understanding Hate and Extremism Online

Mark Malone (Hope and Courage Collective)

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GCE in the English Classroom: Exploring social issues through
an ‘encounter’ with poetry

Rachel Lenihan (UL)

Download

Knowing me, Knowing You: Reflection, storytelling and
empathy as pathways to learning within GCE

Brenda Gallagher and Kathryn Moore (UoG)

Download

Dialogue Day 2024 Group photo — Dialogue Day 2024 Group Photo

Thank you to everyone who attended, see you next year!

– The Ubuntu Team