Neil Boothby—professor and director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC)—recently joined the GC-DWC’s Communications Associate, Brooke Parker, for a conversation on creating pathways out of adversity for children living on the margins of society, with a specific look...

The Telangana state government asked the University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child ( GC-DWC) to develop curriculum focused on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Whole Child Development (WCD) for a new course being implemented in over 70 universities and...

On May 6, the Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic (led by Professor Diane Desierto) and Education Law Project (led by Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett) welcomed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Pakistani sociologist Farida Shaheed, during her first official...

This story was originally published by Brett Beasley from Notre Dame Research. Click here to view the original story. Neil Boothby has observed some of the most tragic events of the last 40 years, including war, genocide, and natural disasters. He has seen them not as an eyewitness but through the...

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) at the University of Notre Dame has received a $600,000 award from Porticus, a global philanthropic organization, to create a whole child development (WCD) training center in India. The GC-DWC will serve as the anchor organization for...

In the inaugural conversation of our new education, forward-focused series, Imagine Tomorrow Today, Neil Boothby, Fr. Lou DelFra, and Danta Bien-Aimé explore the compatibility of faith and science in activating the Church to invest in child development and learning: Thinking globally and acting...

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) at the University of Notre Dame has received three grant awards totalling $3.4 million to fund resilient education programming in Haiti. These awards — from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the LEGO Foundation and USAID — build on Notre...