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ELE - Contexts

Globalisation

Extension Activities:

Your Mission:

Retrace the steps of Marco Polo and discover what you can learn from the cultures you encounter along the way and what you might take home to share with your own culture

Retrace the voyage of Christopher Columbus and share your discoveries with an Asian culture (Christopher Columbus was commisioned to find a sea route to China)

Retrace the journey of Marlow into the Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad to explain why this journey made him skeptical of imperialism [Empire building].

Resources

Check out these links to help

Marco Polo and His Travels

Christopher Colombus

Marlow-Heart of Darkness

What Is globalization?

Is it the integration of economic, political, and cultural systems across the globe. [Globalization in a literal sense is international integration. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and functioning together].

Or is it Americanization and United States dominance of world affairs? [Currently globalization has been due to North American business and trade developments throughout the world or as Thomas L. Friedman explains "the impact of the 'flattening' of the globe" - a flat world]

Is globalization a force for economic growth, prosperity, and democratic freedom? Or is it a force for environmental devastation, exploitation of the developing world, and suppression of human rights? [Globalization can be viewed as a centuries long process, tracking the expansion of human population and the growth of civilization, that has accelerated dramatically in the past 50 years]

Outcome:

To understand the impact of globalisation on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world.

Project Question:

Summarise the basic tenets of globalisation?

Develop your own area of interest and formulate questions that you want answered and relate to your understanding of globization. For example

1. the history of globization, or

2. measuring the effects of globization;

3. or perpaps pro of anti globizations movements

Outcome:

To explore and meaure understanding of how globalization might refer to economic integration on a global scale, into a global economy, and which may blurs national boundaries

Project Question:

The phenomenon of globization is nothing more than the promotion of corporatist interests. Discuss

Overview:

Students will develop their own understanding of globalization and its impact on a 'FLAT WORLD'.

Students will assessing whether globalisation is positive, negative, or a combination of positive and negative on both developing and developed countries.

Proponents of globalisation argue that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise their standards of living, while

opponents of globalization claim that the creation of an unfettered international free market has benefited multinational corporations in the Western world at the expense of local enterprises, local cultures, and common people.

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