Exploring global interconnections
Introducing the global dimension into geography teaching is more challenging than simply exploring places and themes at the global scale. It involves exploring the similarities and differences that exist between places around the world today, and relating those similarities and differences to our own lives. It also involves thinking about our responsibilities as global citizens.
Now complete the activity opposite, which focuses on the multiple and complex connections people have to a range of places.
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Activity
- Click on the Text icon and complete the 'Multiple places' table to show your own connections.
- Now ask your colleagues and some of the pupils you teach to complete the table. Make a note of the discussion and questions generated as people fill it in. For example:
- Were some connections easier to think of than others? Why was this?
- Did the same place occur more than once?
- Consider these questions.
- Did this activity make you think about your own or other people's role in different communities? In which way?
- Has this activity made you think about the way that you present places to pupils?
