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VideosTitle: Impacts of Globalisation (22 minutes, 2004)
Description: This video investigates: - Economic growth and
development
- Contrasts in levels of development in the global economy,
as outlined by the United Nations Human Development Report, and reasons for the
differences
- International convergence (the move towards market economies)
- The
role of trade, investment and trans-national corporations in the global economy
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Environmental consequences of globalisation. It includes a case study "The
impact of globalisation on the Republic of Ireland, and the strategies that are
being used to promote economic growth and development.
Age group:
Upper secondary
Where to get it: Classroom Video, http://www.classroomvideo.com.au/php/progEntry.php4?ShortCodePrefix=Impa§ion=onlinestore Title:
Globalisation and Free Trade: At What Price? (23 minutes, 2004, Australia)
Description: This program examines the organisation of international trade
between nations, and how globalisation and free trade have transformed the operation
of economies around the world.
Age group: Upper secondary
Where
to get it: Video Education Australasia http://www.vea.com.au/php/progEntry.php4?ShortCodePrefix=GLOBA4 Title:
Beyond Babel Series (United Kingdom, 2001)
Description: Beyond Babel
looks at the way in which English is being adopted and adapted around the world,
and how its tremendous rate of growth is driven by trade, culture, politics and
technology. The series also explores the impact of this globalisation on endangered
languages and the relationship of English with its other major linguistic competitors.
Age group: Middle / Upper secondary
Where to get it: Video Education
Australasia Title: The Global Economy (20 minutes, 2003)
Description:
Using various case studies, this video investigates: - The nature of
globalisation and the global economy - Case study - How globalisation affects
the daily decisions of a farmer
- Trade and financial flows
- Free
trade and protection
- Trading blocs and agreements - Case Study: EU
- International
economic organisations - Case Study: The World Bank
Age group:
Upper secondary
Where to get it: Classroom Video, http://www.classroomvideo.com.au/php/progEntry.php4?ShortCodePrefix=Geco§ion=onlinestore Title:
Diverted to Delhi (55 minutes, 2003, Australia)
Producer: Greg Stitt
Description: When Australians, Americans or British consumers phone
to make a customer service query, their calls are often re-routed to India, and
answered by Indians impersonating local telephone operators. This well-guarded
secret is called outsourcing. The college graduates who work in India's burgeoning
call centre industry are forced to put aside their cultural identity, modify their
accent and change their names so they can take on an international personality.
(Teachers' notes are included)
Age group: Upper Secondary
Where
to get it: Film Australia http://www.filmaust.com.au/
Other resources
Simulation games
Title: The Chocolate Game
Description: An activity which explores the interdependence of people
in different countries. It focuses on families involved with the growing of
cocoa and the production of chocolate in three countries, Brazil, Ghana and
the UK. Issues of wealth and poverty between and within countries are explored,
through the choices each family makes about meeting their basic needs. Events
during the game emphasises the uneven distribution of wealth and power.
Age group: Secondary
Where to get it: Global Education Centre South Australia
http://www.global-education.asn.au/
Title: Go Global Car Game
Description: This simulation game explores concepts of globalisation
through the global car industry. Most of the world’s ten largest transnational
corporations (TNCs) are motor vehicle and oil companies, including Exxon (2)
General Motors (3) and Ford (5). While in reality an average car has up to 30,000
parts, for the purposes of this game each car is 'built' from 12 major
components. Many car companies also diversify to produce different versions
of a popular model, or a sports model but in this game, such diversification
is represented by the performance pack options. There is a random element to
the game designed to reflect some advantages and disadvantages that real companies
might have in the actual business world. Some components and factories are more
expensive than others and, consequently, the profits to be made from selling
components to other players also vary.
Age group: Upper secondary
Cost: $43.00 GST inclusive ($10 postage & handling for orders in SA and $12 postage & handling for other states)
Where to get it: Global Education Centre South Australia
http://www.global-education.asn.au
Flyer: http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/file8820
Kit
Title: Fair Trade in action
Description: This kit aims to help students increase their knowledge
and understanding of world trade issues using a wide range of skills, and encourages
them to become aware and active global citizens. The four producer stories,
with fact-finding activity sheet and video, develop students' understanding
of fair trade. The video contains two 20 minute programs. The first one focuses
on world debt, and the second on fair trade. It presents two case studies, bananas
in the Caribbean and cocoa in Ghana. The 'producer' stories deal with growing:
bananas in the Dominican Republic, coffee in Costa Rica, cocoa in the Dominican
Republic, tea in Sri Lanka. The game Fair Trade Rules is played in groups of
six. Five game boards are included. It is designed to enable students to experience
some of the realities of being a producer in developing countries
Age group: Upper primary / Lower secondary
Where to get it: Global Education Centre South Australia
http://www.global-education.asn.au/
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