Welcome to the platform
This offers some details, and welcomes participants to the course, also asking them to share a few details about themselves and their community.
Protected: D – Global Development: Theory and Practice (advanced)
The course (advanced version) aims to encourage pupils across the world to critically reflect upon key themes and issues in global sustainable development, combining reflections on theory and relating ideas to active practice.
D - Week 1: The role of perspective
This week explores the importance of understanding how our own experiences affects the way in which we view the world.
D - Week 2: Perspectives on poverty
This week we will explore the notion of ‘poverty’ in further depth – a fundamental foundation for any other discussions of ‘development’ that we will move onto.
D - Week 3: The postcolonial perspective
This week introduces and explores postcolonial theory.
D - Week 4: Can we agree on a clear meaning of development?
Introducing different theories of development.
D - Week 5: Perspectives on charity
This post explores different perspectives on charitable giving.
D - Week 6: Theories of Change
This post introduces the concept of a 'theory of change' and offers a few tips about understanding and stating the problems you are trying to solve.
