Development
The measures of development. Defining development.
Rates of development
Development groupings
How social development is measured.
Challenges facing development in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa Summer
GCSE Social Development
Health care issues in Sub Saharan Africa.
Name and describe how development is measured. Understand that development can be measured and perceived in different ways. Name and describe the different groupings, e.g. BRICS, MINT, oil rich, G8, LEDC, MEDC. Understand that groupings can be over simplistic and that a range of factors cause different rates of development in different countries. Use Gapminder to describe, explain and analyse rates of development. Describe how gender and health are used to measure development. Explain the concept of the development continuum. Describe how social development evidence to measure the development gap. Explain factors influencing birth and death rates and describe how population pyramids can be used to reflect population structure. Describe challenges associated with child labour and the education of girls. How these issues are tackled. Explain reasons for refugee movement and asylum seekers and describe how the issue is tackled at different scales. Explain reasons for high rates of infant mortality. Describe the challenge of HIV and Malaria. Describe how these issues are tackled, and top down and bottom up approaches to development. Describe how progress is measured and what progress is being made.
Suggested further reading: Red Dust by Mian Jian, White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, A Squatter’s Tale by Ike Oguine, Himalaya by Michael Palin, Pole to Pole by Michael Palin, Waking the Giant by Bill Maguire, The Landgrabbers by Fred Pearce, 10 Billion by Stephen Emmett, Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds by James Ferguson
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