ECIGAL participates in Estival 4.7.
ECIGAL participated last weekend, from 12 to 14 July, in “Estival 4.7”, organised by the 4.7 Movement with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID). The 4.7 Movement (https://www.4punto7.org/) is a platform driven by four organisations in the field of international cooperation (Alboan, Entreculturas, InteRed and ONGAWA) which today operates with its […]
The Faculty of Education at the UDC receives the Galician Award for Education for Global Citizenship thanks to an initiative promoted by ECIGAL
The Faculty of Education Sciences at the UDC was awarded the prize in the university teaching category at the third edition of the Premio Galego de Educación para o Desenvolvemento e a Cidadanía Global, promoted by the Galician Coordinator of NGOs for Development. The award-winning initiative Body mapping: two hateful discourses on a shared pleasure […]
Doctoral thesis on children’s perception of race
Congratulations to Dr Zeynep Pamukçu, who on Monday 4 March 2024 defended her thesis entitled Minority Children’s Perception of Race: A Child-Centered Ethnographic Approach. The thesis, co-supervised by Renée DePalma and Antía Pérez Caramés, is based on an ethnographic study conducted in an NGO and explores how racialised children of immigrant origin understand themselves and society […]
2023 REPORT: INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY OF GALICIA
We have published the 2023 annual report of the NGO Solidariedade Internacional de Galicia, in the form of a summary video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VFevsIDf9U
Publication in the International Journal of Education for Social Justice
Méndez, R. M., & Digón, P. (2023). Justicia Global y Educación Primaria: El Caso de las Matemáticas, Ciencias y Lenguas. International Journal of Education for Social Justice, 12(2), 45–62. https://doi.org/10.15366/riejs2023.12.2.003 This work is based on the results of the project Mapping Critical Global Citizenship Education in Spanish Schools (2021), funded by the European Educational Research […]
Service-Learning Award
This morning, the Rector’s Office hosted the award ceremony for the 3rd Service-Learning Teaching Innovation Awards of the University of A Coruña, which are jointly funded and managed by the Office of Cooperation and Volunteering (OCV) and the University Centre for Training and Educational Innovation (CUFIE). We are delighted that the Service-Learning project “A través […]
Presentation on ICT and unwanted loneliness among older people
On 9 November 2023, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO) in Vigo, we presented the results of a study commissioned by Fundación Esplai – Ciudadanía Comprometida, on ICT and unwanted loneliness among older people. Using focus groups, we explored the possibilities and limitations of new technologies for addressing this phenomenon, and made some recommendations […]
Meeting with Haydee Castillo
On 28 September we had a very productive meeting with the educator and human rights activist Haydee Castelo, a Nicaraguan apatride. We exchanged ideas on how to collect and highlight the experiences of people exiled or repressed by the dictatorship, and to make it easier for university students who have been forced to flee the […]
We participated in the Summer Course on Education for Global Citizenship at the University of Cantabria
We set up a mapping room where participants could familiarise themselves with the methodology of social mapping and the mapping room tool; reflect on ways of understanding and analysing ECG; and also map their own ECG experiences alongside others we had conducted.
Body mapping. Two hate speeches to a shared lover
On Saturday 17 June we were in Camp for peace and the right to asylum presenting the exhibition “Bodily Cartography: From Leisure Discourses to Shared Leisure”. More than 30 people joined us for the presentation. Carlota, Stephanie and Henar shared the results of the body mapping on hate speech, which they carried out with Professor […]