About Us
Scotdec is one of six development education centres (DECs) in Scotland. We are based in The School of Education (Moray House) at the University of Edinburgh and serve our local area of Edinburgh and the Lothians, Scottish Borders, Clackmannanshire, Stirling and Falkirk.
We currently have three full-time staff – Charlotte Dwyer (Education Worker), Isabel Ross (Resources Worker) and Susan McIntosh (Co-ordinator). Policy is determined by a voluntary Management Committee comprising a representative from each of our core funders and a number of co-opted members, mainly teachers. Membership of the Management Committee is open to anyone in our local area with a professional and/or personal interest in our work and who lives or works in our local area.
Most of our income is still dependent on grant funding from organisations such as Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid, Amnesty International, Department for International Development and the European Commission for particular projects and core work, we also generate funds through the sale of resources and services, in particular CPD courses.
Much of our work is done collaboratively through the Scottish network, IDEAS (International Development Education Association of Scotland) a network of over 40 organisations and individuals involved in Development Education and Education for Global Citizenship across Scotland.
History
Scotdec (Scottish Development Education Centre) has been in existence since 1984. Originally known as the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC), it was registered as a charity in 1990 and incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee in 1999. As well as building a reputation for promoting and distributing development education materials, over the past years we have also produced and published a number of popular resources. These include the following:
- A Global Approach - workshop pack for primary teachers
- Technology - Who Needs It?
- The Magic of Colour
- The Web of Life - Forests
- Farming Local and Global
- Clean Water - A Right for All
- Technology, People and the Environment
- Toying with Technology and Your Place or Mine? Learning from the past, deciding for the future
- A Global Approach – starting points for primary schools
We have been involved in a number of innovative projects over the years which are detailed in Previous Projects.