Dr Doug Bourn
- Qualifications and position:
- 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 Geography, Enterprise, Mathematics and Science
- Summary:
- Main areas of activity are managing and implementing a range of research programmes agreed with the Centre's main funder, DFID, and within the Institute supporting other academic staff in including the global dimension within their courses and the promotion of global perspectives within higher education alongside being course leader for the MA in development education.
The Centre has recently published two research reports:
Report 1 - Global Dimension In Secondary Schools
Report 2 - Young People and International Development: Engagement and Learning
- Teaching:
- Course leader for the MA in Development Education
- Research Projects:
- Young People as Global Citizens:
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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
Contact details
- Email: D.Bourn@ioe.ac.uk
Address:- Department of Geography, Enterprise, Mathematics and Science
University of London
36-38 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
Office Location:- Room G03
36-38 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD
Publications
- 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 Blum, N. and Edge, K. (2009) 'Global dimension: role of research in PGCE geography at M. level' edited by C. Brooks, Abingdon: Routledge.
- 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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