3.2.1.4 Global governance
The emergence and developing role of norms, laws and institutions in regulating and reproducing global systems.

Issues associated with attempts at global governance, including how agencies, including the UN in the post-1945 era, can work to promote growth and stability but may also exacerbate inequalities and injustices.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• what is meant by the term ‘global governance.
• what the important elements of global governance are and how they help global governance to be effective.
• the issues global governance focuses on and the reasons for this.
• what global organisations are and the roles they play.
• the strengths and limitations of these intergovernmental organisations.

Suggested timing
2 to 3 hours

3.2.2.3 Meaning and representation
How places may be represented in a variety of different forms, such as advertising copy, tourist agency material and local art exhibitions in diverse media (eg film, photography, art, story, song, etc), that often give contrasting images to that presented formally or statistically, such as cartography and census data.

3.2.2.2.2 Quantitative and qualitative skills

• Students must engage with a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches across the theme as a whole.
• Quantitative data, including the use of geospatial data, must be used to investigate and present place characteristics, particular weight must be given to qualitative approaches involved in representing place, and to analysing critically the impacts of different media on place meanings and perceptions.
• The use of different types of data should allow the development of critical perspectives on the data categories and approaches.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• The difference between qualitative and quantitative sources of geographical information.
• What considerations must be made regarding reliability when using qualitative sources.
• What are the common qualitative sources of information used in presenting place characteristics and what their strengths and weaknesses are.

Suggested timing
1 hour

3.2.1.2 Global systems
Issues associated with interdependence including how unequal flows of people, money, ideas and technology within global systems can sometimes act to promote stability, growth and development but can also cause inequalities, conflicts and injustices for people and places.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• what the effects are of the unequal flows of people, money, ideas and technology on countries.
• why these flows are unequal and why they predominantly ‘flow in one direction.

Suggested timing
2 hours