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Age Group:
Junior Cycle / Senior Cycle / Transition Year
Themes:
- Degrowth/
- Goal 8/
Subjects:
- Agricultural Science/
- Archived/
- Economics/
- Home Economics/
- Politics and Society/
- Wellbeing/
- ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Citizenship Education/
Event Date
April 7, 2022
Event Time
Location
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Annual Student Conference 2022: ‘Degrowth: Uniting Students for Radical Change’
The theme of this year’s online ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Student Conference was ‘Degrowth’. It included online and offline activities. Below you can find the recordings and resources on the theme of degrowth.
Do people matter as much as profit?
Is our society more than just an economy?
Are people and the planet interconnected?
For countries to thrive, does our world or climate have to suffer?
This year’s ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ student conference brought young people across Ireland together to help answer these questions, and explore the possible solutions.
In exploring how we can create a better balance towards happiness, well being, and the broader environment, we saw how some of our own ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ schools are tackling this issue, as well as leaders from industries including fashion, business, politics, and farming, to name a few.
Examples of themes explored on the day: Tax justice, trade justice, ethical consumption and production, fast fashion, biodiversity crisis, global inequality, workers rights. The conference closed with the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Passport Award ceremony, where we celebrated schools who were successful in obtaining an Award for their commitment to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Citizenship Education this year.
Workshop Resources
Video Recording
The recording is divided in smaller youtube videos by each section of the conference.
- Introduction to degrowth
- Panel Discussion 1: Digging deeper: Degrowth
- Panel Discussion 2: Biodiversity, Farming and Degrowth
- Panel Discussion 3: Fast Fashion & Circular Economy
- Panel Discussion 4: Degrowth: Tax, trade, debt and the social economy
- Student Class Activity: Looking at your GCE theme through a Degrowth lens
- ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Passport Award Ceremony 2022
- Conference Evaluation and Close
The recordings are available .
The music playlist can be found .
Activity resources
Please the in class activity that was shared during the conference. The aim of the activity is to look at GCE in different ways.
Visual harvest
Visual artist Blanche Ellis did a brilliant job of capturing the sentiment of the day through this wonderful graphic harvest. Please feel free to print for your school! Please find it in pdf here.
Organisations mentioned and featured:
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SAT form- Conference Feedback
If you have attended the conference and not done so already, we would really appreciate, if you and some of the students who attended the conference could please complete . All feedback is incredibly helpful for our conference planning going forward.
Other resources
Books mentioned
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – Walter Rodney
- Consumed by Aja BarberÌý
- How the World Works by Jason Hickel
More resources
Do you want more resources on Degrowth? Check our Degrowth page.