Global Perspectives Coursework: Contents

  1. What do we need to do?
  2. Who's going to win?
  3. Starting our Individual Projects
  4. Designing our Questions, choosing our Topics
  5. Seeing the big picture
  6. Writing our questions
  7. Presenting our questions
  8. Drafting our coursework
  9. Working with sources

What do we need to do?

LO: To consider the requirements of the Individual Report Coursework

Of the topics we've looked at so far, which has been the most interesting?

What topic SHOULD we have looked at?

The Report

Requirements:

  • Choose and research the global aspect of one of 8 given topics
  • You will produce a single written essay
  • 1500 to 2000 words
  • You'll be assessed on your research, analysis and evaluation
  • Marks will also be given for the quality of your communication and reflection
  • You will produce this by yourself

Who's going to win?

LO: To make predictions about the upcoming American presidential election

140 days to go...

Have you ever made a successful prediction about an event? How did you do it?

Who would benefit from being able to predict the outcome of an election?

Writing our predictions

Write a prediction about the outcome of the election.

Your prediction must include:

  • 5 pieces of statistical data
  • 4 expert opinions
  • 3 reasons of your own
  • 2 predictions of what will happen -after- the election

Write a five step plan for the person you think is going to lose, and how they can turn it around.

On your exercise book, write:

{YOUR NAME}

Y11

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES NOTEBOOK

Starting our Individual Projects

LO: To being deciding on our topic area for the coursework

Read this summary from the exam board, and bullet-point the skills needed to complete it.

Which skill do you think you're most proficient in at the moment.

For the Individual Report, learners choose a topic from those listed in the syllabus, select a global issue within the topic and formulate a global research question which they answer in no more than 2000 words.
Learners research their topic to identify an issue and analyse the causes and consequences of this issue. The issue chosen could be one that raises an ethical dilemma or causes conflict, damage, difficulty or hardship, or simply leads to disagreement.
Learners suggest possible courses of action which address the issue, a related cause or consequence.

The Topics

  • Arts in society
  • Change in culture and communities
  • Climate change, energy and resources
  • Conflict and peace
  • Development, trade and aid
  • Digital world
  • Education for all
  • Employment
  • Environment, pollution and conservation
  • Globalisation
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Law and criminality
  • Media and communication
  • Migration and urbanisation
  • Political power and action
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Social identity and inclusion
  • Sport and recreation
  • Technology, industry and innovation
  • Transport, travel and tourism
  • Values and beliefs
  • Water, food and agriculture

Which one is MOST appealing, which is LEAST appealing?

Questions to ask yourself

  • Which of the topics is of most interest to me?
  • Can I form a question that could be answered from different perspectives?
  • Can I find relevant sources of information about different perspectives on the internet and elsewhere?
  • Can I analyse information from different sources, identify causes and consequences of the issue and propose appropriate courses of action?
  • Can I evaluate sources of information found on the internet and elsewhere?

Topics + Issues = Questions

Could social media companies prevent cyber bullying?

Topic = Digital world
Issue = cyber-bullying

Possible questions

For each question:

  1. Copy it down
  2. Note down the TOPIC and the ISSUE
  3. Rank it on a scale of 1 - 5 of how much you'd enjoy answering it.

Write your own alternative questions for two of the topic-issue pairs.

  1. Can the Arts improve health in communities?
  2. Could social media companies prevent cyber bullying?
  3. Can globalisation lead to more equality between men and women in families?
  4. Should we try to live more sustainably to prevent climate change?
  5. Can governments ensure that immigrants are integrated into local communities?
  6. Can Fair Trade solve global poverty?

Designing our Questions, choosing our Topics

Write a GP coursework-style question, about the historical context of Of Mice and Men

Could social media companies prevent cyber bullying?

Settling on a topic

Can I form a question that could be answered from different perspectives?

  • Arts in society
  • Change in culture and communities
  • Climate change, energy and resources
  • Conflict and peace
  • Development, trade and aid
  • Digital world
  • Education for all
  • Employment
  • Environment, pollution and conservation
  • Globalisation
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Law and criminality
  • Media and communication
  • Migration and urbanisation
  • Political power and action
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Social identity and inclusion
  • Sport and recreation
  • Technology, industry and innovation
  • Transport, travel and tourism
  • Values and beliefs
  • Water, food and agriculture
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Seeing the big picture

LO: To consider the world we're in today, and the issues affecting it

Which topic area are you considering, and why? Discuss with the person next to you
Explain to your partner why their choice is terrible

A World Tour

Around the room you'll find four large sheets of paper, with a question at the centre of each.

Using your pens, cycle round the room and write at least three thoughts about each question on each sheet

Add replies to others' comments

Writing our questions

Review the sheets we worked on yesterday.

❌ Add a red cross next to what you disagree with
✅ Add a green tick next to what you agree with

Do you think our group is inherently pessimistic or optimistic? Why?

Throwing ideas around

To warm up, write three potential questions:

  1. One which is way too simple and easy to answer
  2. One which will far too difficult to answer
  3. One which I definitely won't let you do

Could social media companies prevent cyber bullying?

Topic = Digital world
Issue = cyber-bullying

Presenting our questions

Today, you will present your proposed question.

You have ten minutes to finish writing a question, then email it to me.

mbruges@reptonalbarsha.org 📨

What a good one looks like

Could social media companies prevent cyber bullying?

Topic = Digital world
Issue = cyber-bullying

  • Clearly defined topic area
  • Very specific, current issue
  • Clear success criteria for any proposal (i.e. "will this prevent cyberbullying?")
  • No obvious/indisputable answer
  • Lots of potential research sources

Proposal from: Ms. Sana Tabatabaei

Can the government improve art access for children in low-income education?

  • Why?
  • What difficulties in researching?
  • What sources?
  • What to do?
  • Is it too broad/too narrow?
  • Is the issue clear?

Drafting our coursework

Take your plans out and share with the person next to you

What constructive feedback can you offer?

The Timeline

First drafts of your coursework are due on 7th October

  • This will give me time to provide feedback for you to act on over half term
  • If you miss that deadline, I might not have time to give detailed support...

Draw up a timeline of goals for how you will hit this deadline.

The word limit is 1,500 to 2,000

Working with sources

LO: To consider how we build our bibliographies and keep track of citations

Pick two sources that you've found from your research so far and note down for each one:

  1. Who wrote it
  2. Who published it (not Google!)
  3. When it was published
  4. Where it can be found (the web address)

Which is the most reliable? Why?

Keeping track of evidence

  • You should have a nice long list of sources that you're using the back up your essays.
  • With academic writing, we have to follow rules to make sure these are tracked properly: these are known as citation or referencing systems
  • The Cambridge exam board recommends we use the Harvard Referencing System - originating from the eponymous university

Building a bibliography

  • The bibliography comes at the end of your essay
  • It is a list of all the sources you've used (even if you don't quote directly from them!)

The bibliography for my dissertation ↗️

NB: this uses MHRA referencing, which is slightly different!

Citing it in your essay

Recent studies have shown that more and more teenagers are struggling with social media addiction (Singleton, 2024)...

Bibliography

Singleton, T. (2024) Sharp rise in problematic teenage social media use, study says, BBC News. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl8d0x9lpdo (Accessed: 03 October 2024).

Writing citations

In-text citations need:

  • the author surname
  • the publication date

Bibliography references need:

  • Author name
  • Publish date
  • Title
  • Publication (website or publisher of book)
  • For websites:
    • the URL
    • the date you accessed it

Now, convert those two sources from the Do Now into this Harvard Referencing format

...there's been a sharp rise (Singleton, 2024)...

Bibliography

Singleton, T. (2024) Sharp rise in problematic teenage social media use, study says, BBC News. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/news/crl8d0x9lpdo (Accessed: 03 October 2024).

Citation Generator 🌐

FAQs

  • What if it's written by multiple people?
    • Only cite the first person's surname in the text, with et al: (Smith et al, 2021)...
    • ...then cite all the authors in the bibliography (Smith, J & Jones, B....)
  • What if the sources doesn't have an author?
    • Cite the organisation that published it; e.g. (Cognita Schools, 2023)
  • Can I cite something from Google?
    • No: Google is just an aggregator of information, not a source. Find the original website that Google is pulling the information from and cite that
  • What about Wikipedia?
    • All information on Wikipedia has to be sourced: follow the links at the end of the document, or in the citation links [1] , to see where the information comes from originally
  • What about research I've conducted or ideas I've had?
    • You only need to cite published information. So unless you've already published your research elsewhere, there's no need to worry about citing yourself

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