‘Oh yeah that’s awful, that’s terrible. Somebody

Transcript:‘Oh yeah that’s awful, that’s terrible. Somebody:
‘Oh yeah that’s awful, that’s terrible. Somebody should do something about it ... .......... but not me!’ Revisiting ‘Standpoints’: Attitudes to Global Justice Among Young People and Youth Workers in Ireland Hilary Tierney, Maynooth University Dublin Castle 8th October 2014 Development Education in youth work aims to: Increase young people’s awareness and understanding of the interdependent and unequal world in which we live… Challenges perceptions of the world and encourages young people to act for a more just and equal society at a national and an international level. (NYCI) Identify and explore the awareness levels of, and attitudes towards, a range of development and global issues among youth workers and young people To give a voice to participants’ in framing definitions and interpretations of ‘development and global issues’ and identifying youth work’s role in relation to them Research Aims Research Approach - Qualitative Focus groups with youth workers/young people Groups purposively sampled from national youth work organisations Group members: attempt to reflect the range and diversity of young people involved in youth work – not specifically those involved in Dev. Ed Three areas selected: Mayo (West), Waterford (South East) & Dublin (South) Advisory Group How do participants see the world: what type of knowledge/information do they have about (different parts of) the world, and where do they get it? What do they see as the main relationships/links between and within different parts of the world? What do participants identify as the key ‘global justice issues’? (did not pre-define the concept) What do they think is being done/should be done about these issues, and what is (or should be) the youth work response? Focus Groups Questions Mapping the world… ‘One is the one you normally get and one is the one how everything is, like the true shape of everything, Ireland is a lot smaller than it is actually shown on the one that we [usually] get’. ‘You realise how many more people would be affected by Africa I suppose, because in this one it looks a hell of a lot smaller and in this one it looks huge and then obviously it means that…it just seems like a really big place to have droughts and famine’. ‘It would probably be [people from] the northern hemisphere making maps’. ‘Western’ countries/regions – personal experience/socio-political ties Africa – media presents negative images Eastern Europe/Africa – immigration China & Far East – perception of