Dr Doug Bourn

    • BA (Keele), PhD (Keele)
    • Director of Development Education Research Centre
    • Editor of the International Journal for Development Education and Global Learning
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
  • Summary:
  • Teaching:
    • Course leader for the MA in Development Education
  • Research:
    • Young People as Global Citizens:
      - 
how young people learn about global issues and what they do with this learning in terms of action

      Global Dimension within Formal Education:
      - what does the global dimension look like within schools and how are teachers interpreting the term.

      Students as Global Citizens:

      - How students engage with global and development issues through learning and action.

      Global Dimension to Initial Teacher Education:
      - How global dimension can be embedded with PGCE courses at IOE


      Global Skills and Global Learning for Global Colleges:
      - Identifying how global dimension can be integral component of further education and training

      Evaluation in Development Education:
      - Investigating most appropriate mechanisms for identifying impact of learning about global and development issues within education

      Theory of Development Education:
      - from practice to a re-conceptualisationDeveloping a conceptual and pedagogical framework for development education.
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • • Young People as Global Citizens- how young people learn about global issues and what they do with this learning in terms of action


      • Global Perspectives in Higher Education: ways in which universities are responding to challenges of globalisation and internationalisation.
      

      • Theory of Development Education- from practice to a re-conceptualisation of what is meant by a pedagogy of development education including relationship between learning and advocacy

      • Global Skills and how further education colleges are responding to globalisation.

      • Global Citizenship Education – what the term means and how it is interpreted within schools

  • Professional Activities:
    • • Editor of International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning

      • Member editorial board of Critical Literacy
 and also Policy and Practice
      • Member of UNESCO UK Committee on Decade on Education for Sustainable Development
      • Chair Earth Charter UK
• Member of UNESCO UK Education Committee
      • Member of Co-operative College Board of Governors, the Education Advisory Board of Raleigh International.
      • Fellow Royal Society of Arts
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • • Global Youth Work, Y CARE International, March 2011
      • European Development Education and Awareness Rasing Forum, Brussels, May 2011
      • International Partnerships and Further Education, AoC International Conference, May 2011
      • Returned Volunteers and Development Awareness, BAICE Conference, September 2010
      • The Pedagogy of Develoment Education, Cyfanfyd Annual Forum, Cardiff, May 2010
      • Global Skills, British Council, Go Global Conference, March 2010
      • Global Perspectives within Teacher Education, Southampton Univeristy, January 2010
      • Young People as Global Citizens- Keynote at Regional Youth Work Conference, Nottingham, November 2009
      • Evaluation and Research and Challenges for Development Education at Moving From Evaluation to Research in Global Learning at National University of Ireland, Galway, October 2009
      • Internationalisation and Global Perspectives- keynote at Oxford Brookes University Annual conference on Internationalisation, July 2009
      • Education for Sustainable Development- International Context for UK Education for Sustainable Development-Global Citizenship Initial Teacher Education Conference, June 2008
  • Research Students:
    • Yvette Allen
      George Ananga
      Kate Brown
      Maureen Ellis
      Will Essilife
      Laura Johnson
      Alison Leonard
      Son Gyoh
      Judith Ott
      James Trewby
Dr Doug Bourn

Staff profile

Contact details

  • Email:

  • Postal address:
  • Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
    University of London
    36-38 Gordon Square
    London WC1H 0PD

  • Office location:
  • Room G03
    36-38 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD

Publications

  • Bourn, D. and Kybird, M. (2012) 'Plan UK and Development Education - the contribution of an international development organisation to learning and understanding about global and development issues', International journal of Development Education and Global Learning 4.2, 45-63.
  • Bour, D. (2011) 'Development Education' Arthur, J. And Peterson, A. (eds.), Companion to Education. London, Routledge.
  • Bourn, D., Blum, N. and Bentall, C. (2010) 'Learning and skills for a global economy: The response of further education colleges and other training providers to the challenges of globalisation', LSIS Research Report, Coventry, LSIS.
  • Bourn, D. and Issler, S. (2010) 'Transformative learning for a global society in education and social change' edited by Elliott, G., Fourali, C. and Issler, S., Education and Social Change. London, Continuum.
  • Bourn, D. and Morgan, A. (2010) 'Development education, sustainable development, global citizenship and higher education: Towards a transformatory approach to learning' edited by Unterhalter, E. and Carpentier, V., Global Inequalities and Higher Education. Basingstoke, Palgrave.
  • Bourn, D. with Shiel, C. (2009) 'Global perspectives: aligning agendas, environmental education research', 15, 661-677.
  • Bourn, D. (2009) 'Students as Global Citizens' In Jones, E. (ed.), Internationalisation: the Student Voice. London: Routledge.
  • Bourn, D. (2008) Global Skills. London: LSIS.
  • Bourn, D. (ed.) (2008) Development education: debates and dialogues. London: Bedford Way Papers.
  • Bourn, D. (2008) 'Towards a re-conceptualisation of development education', International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning 1(1), 5-22.
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