Training: Disability Inclusion in Global Citizenship Education
CBM staff taking OPD’s advice on Food Crisis emergency response in Madagascar. Copyright notice: CBM
Date: Tuesday 20 September, 13:00 PM- 4:30PM
Location: Ashling Hotel Dublin
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How to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities and their organisations in Global Citizenship Education, supported by Irish Aid
CBM Ireland is inviting practitioners and organisations promoting Development Education (DE) and or Global Citizenship Education (GCE) to training on Disability Inclusion in Global Citizenship Education. The training, lead-facilitated by Peter Kearns, Independent Living Movement Ireland (ILMI) and co-facilitated by Mahbub Kabir, CBM Ireland, aims to strengthen our approaches to the promotion of greater participation of person with disabilities and their organisations (OPDs) to DE/GCE work, to develop an action plan and identify key areas for future engagements.
BIOGRAPHIES
Peter Kearns BA, MA, H. Dip.
Peter graduated from Trinity College in the late 1980s with an English Honours degree and followed this with an MA in Film & TV Studies at Dublin City University and a Higher Diploma in Adult & Community Education from Maynooth College.
In the mid 1990’s Peter established THE WORKHOUSE, a disability equality and arts consultancy company that supports research & development and & mentor training to the private & statutory sector in Ireland, Europe and Asia. This work included an 18-month EU funded Director/producer on Lights-Disability-Action, where three short films made by disabled adults from the course won awards at film festivals in Europe and the Americas.
Peter’s noughties associate residency at The Abbey Theatre facilitated the development of a disability policy and promoted a vision for the National Cultural Institutes’ access to & with disabled people as audience, creators and producers. Peter was Dublin's City Arts Centre Education-Director and went onto establish himself as Disability Dramaturge and has produced & directed a series of touring adult cabaret shows with disabled performers. Critically recognised art & drama work has included Firestation Artists Studio interactive website 'Transformation', Cork Year of Culture establishment of Forum Theatre groups at Cork Cheshire Homes, Dundalk Disability Forum Theatre, Dublin Smashing-Barriers, Sligo-Slieveenzz and Galway Forum Theatre Disability Drama groups.
Peter has trekked to Everest base-camp and K2 Stok Kangri base-camp. He is also a writer/dramatist a UN documentary & film maker and works full-time as Independent Living Movement Ireland. Cross-Border Digital Social Inclusion Project Coordinator and also lectures at NUIG St. Angela's College Sligo. Peter is an original founder of the College's Disability Equality Dept. and module writer for QQI-Level-8 Degree & 9 Masters in Disability Equality Studies . Publications include theatre, film, disability arts and disability studies:
Mahbub Kabir
A graduate in Anthropology, Mahbub took up a research role in an organisation that has pioneered Freirean emancipatory education in Bangladesh. For the last twenty years, he worked with several organisations and promoted inclusion in development and humanitarian contexts in the Global South. Mahbub is the Advocacy and Inclusion Advisory Manager at CBM Ireland. He also coordinates the initiatives of Global Citizenship Education/ Development Education promoting inclusion in the sector.