Lesson Two

Intro - Global Awareness

Key Issues
How has global awareness affected gender, labour, and employment issues?
How are global awareness and quality of life related?

- recognize and appreciate the impact of globalization on the quality of life of individuals and communities.
- recognize and appreciate the importance of human rights in determining quality of life.
- acknowledge political, social and environmental responsibilities associated with global citizenship.

Lesson

U4L2 Power Point

Watch the following tutorial

Read Chapter Fourteen pages 325-331 and 339-340 and answer the following questions:

1. Define the following terms:
- Ingenuity gap
- Labour standards

2. What is the ingenuity gap and how do developed nations often end up on the better end of this gap?

3. One issue that has surfaced as a result of globalization is the gender gap and employment equity (equal pay for equal work). Go to the World Economic Forum and read the World Gender Gap and explain why Employment equity in Canada and other countries continues to be a concern.

4. Identify ways in which women's issues are either assisted or hampered by globalization?

5. Click on the following video. Create a list of social injustices that occur daily at Nike sweatshops.

6. Refer to the content on page 340 of your textbook, regarding Foreign Debt.
    a. Explain why nations borrow large sums of money?
    b. Describe the role of the World Bank and IMF and explain how this has influenced the quality of life in developing nations.

7. The International Labour Organization has identified four fundamental principles and rights at work. Research the International Labour Organization online to identify these principles and explain how globalization discourages the implementation of these principles in the work place.

8. What are the criteria for Effective Governance? Do you think all countries practice effective government all the time? Refer to page 339 and visit the Human Rights Watch   and  Amnesty International web sites to help answer this question.

9 Take the following World Hunger Quiz  and make a list of the hunger facts that you learned by taking this quiz.

Self Check - click on the link for answers.

Assignment

Open a new Word document. Label it SS10U4L2.surname.
In this document, complete ONE of the choice 'Take Action' activities outlined below; be sure to include the assignment description along with your responses.
Submit this assignment using the Folder for U4L2 Global Action.

1. The gap between the world's rich and poor continues to grow. "Malnutrition, AIDS, conflict and illiteracy are a daily reality for millions. But it isn't chance or bad luck that keeps people trapped in this unrelenting poverty. It's man-made factors like a debt burden so great that it suffocates any chance of recovery and insufficient and ineffective aid."

Visit the OXFAM website and scroll through the frontline stories. Choose one that interests you. Select a campaign that you would be interested in participating in. Identify the campaign that you selected (ie: who, what, where...) and describe what you selected to do about it.

OR....

2. Human rights violations can provoke ill health or can arise as a consequence of ill health. "Amnesty International campaigns on a whole spectrum of rights associated with health, from opposition to the death penalty and the denial of health care, to the right to safe drinking water and adequate nutrition. There is a role for everyone to play - get involved in our campaigns."

Select a cause from the  Amnesty International site. Identify the Cause that you selected from the website, (ie: who, what, where...) and describe the action that you have chosen to take or what you selected to do about it.

Once you select a topic, you will need to 'choose a language' from the drop down menu.  Then, you can download the full article of your choice.

Evaluation for the 'Take Action Assignment' will be based on the following criteria:
- Identification and Outline of the Cause (who, what, when, where questions should be answered briefly adequately) - /17
- Length - 1/2 page
- Mechanics (correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, etc.) - /3
Total -   /20

Conclusion

The focus of this lesson has been to create global awareness by revealing human rights abuses in the effort to inspire hope through the power of public action and international solidarity. Global connections will be explored in the next lesson.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
                 Nelson Mandela