Mapping Survey of Returned Development Workers' Engagement with Global Justice Issues

 

Returned Development Workers (RDWs), for the purposes of this research, are people who have spent a period of time working in the global south towards the goal of greater global justice and do so, through the support of an organisation whose mission is centrally concerned with global justice. Some RDWs are paid, some are not. Whether they are or are not paid is not a concern of this research.

Engagement with global justice issues is core to development education. The research shares the Irish Aid definition of development education, which states that it “aims to deepen understanding of global poverty and encourage people towards action for a more just and equal world. As such, it can build support for efforts by government and civil society to promote a development agenda and it can prompt action at a community and individual level”. For the purposes of this research, RDWs’ engagement with global justice issues may take place in the formal or informal educational sectors or elsewhere, wherever RDWs may advance the ‘understanding of global poverty’.

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