Development
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The A to Z of World Development An accessible introduction to world development, full of information, history, and explanations of terms and issues. With over 600 entries in alphabetical order, colour charts and diagrams, over 250 maps and statistical data, it is a must for all school libraries and Geography Departments. KS4/+ New Internationalist Publications £24.95  ·
Also available: The A to Z of World Development CD-Rom, which provides
a rich mix of sound, pictures, visual information and descriptive facts
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World Guide 2001/2002 An invaluable and authoritative reference book, this is the only global almanac with a perspective from the South. This latest edition offers a unique blend of detailed information on more than 200 countries and nations, plus analysis of topical issues. Another must for all school libraries… KS4/+ NI Publications Available March 2001 £29.95 · Also available: World Guide 2001/2002 CD Rom, based on the book version, with up-to-date information on every country in the world. (Available March 2001 £39.95) |
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Global Express This pack contains four editions of the Geographical Association award winning teaching resource which is published three or four times a year in rapid response to major items in the news, such as flooding, GM crops, the Millennium and refugees. Designed to give students a deeper understanding of the news item and help them challenge commonly held myths and stereotypes about countries and people in the news. There is information in each pack about how to take out a subscription so you can receive new editions as they are published. KS2/3 Manchester DEP/Panos £6.50 |
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Dealing with Disasters: Teaching about Disasters for 11-14 year olds Why do disasters happen? Can they be prevented? What can be done to help? Dealing with Disasters includes clear background information on earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and famine which will support non-specialist teachers. KS3 Oxfam £13.00 |
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Primary Topic Poster Packs A new range of full-colour poster sets focusing on key primary topics: Cities, Food, Homes, Shops and Markets, Transport, Water. Each set contains an A1 poster with images of young children around the world engaged in everyday activities, and six A3 posters, which draw out some of the main themes on the issues and are ideal for classroom display and project work. With ideas for lively activities that develop visual literacy, observation, and writing and speaking skills. KS1/2 Oxfam £15.00 per set |
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Working Worldwide Series: Shopkeeper - Farmer - Teacher - Doctor This series of books compares and contrasts occupations in the UK, the USA and the developing world. Each book focuses on four real people from different countries, showing how their work affects their families and communities. KS1/2 Oxfam £4.50 each / Set of 4: £15.00 |
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Milking It - NEW RESOURCE ! www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/milkingit Milking It? An online resource from Oxfam for young people aged 13 - 16. This global citizenship resource lifts the lid on the complex world of international trade and shows how unfair trade rules and practices are souring the lives of dairy farmers in very different countries. KS3/4 Oxfam | |
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Farming: local & global Shows how to relate the study of a local farm to a cash crop coffee farm in Nicaragua and a subsistence farm in Poland. The pack aims to help children appreciate what life is like on farms in other parts of the world; raise children's awareness of the relationship between farming practices and the natural and social environment, and the interdependence between producers and consumers of food. KS2 Scottish DEC £17.00 |
Seeds for Life? A (14-minute) video with teaching activities that investigates the issues and dilemmas facing small-scale Indian farmers over whether to grow subsistence or genetically modified crops. The material provides good opportunities for students to question and discuss issues of social justice, globalisation and sustainable development. KS3/4 Christian Aid £14.00 |
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Around the Garden in 80 Ways Creative ideas about how plants might be used as a stimulus for raising development issues such as power, trade, gender, cultural tradition and environmental sustainability. KS2 Birmingham DEC £7.25 |
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Can You Be Different? Resources for understanding internationalisation and cultural change in communities. Taiwan forms the focus for looking at issues such as what the pressures to 'westernise' are; who has the power to influence cultures; what happens to small communities. Of particular relevance to teachers of PSE, English, RE, social studies and geography. KS3/4 Birmingham DEC £13.20 |
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75:25 - Development in an increasingly unequal world 75% of the world's resources are used by only 25% of the world's people: hence the title of this reader. It provides an excellent and comprehensive introduction to issues behind injustice and inequality, eg gender, hunger, trade, human rights, religion and environment. 6th form students/+ Birmingham DEC et al £8.25 |
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It's Not Fair This handbook uses a wide range of educational techniques including role plays, simulations, quizzes, to help young people address issues of global injustice and development. KS4/+ Cafod/Christian Aid/SCIAF £7.25 |
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Thin Black Lines Rides Again A second volume of cartoons presenting complex and challenging ideas about important world issues in an accessible and lively way. Age range:'9-99' Birmingham DEC/Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate, New York £7.00 |
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New Faces, New Places A resource pack about people on the move, with case studies of refugee, displaced and migrant children in Mozambique, Vietnam, Palestine, Kurdistan and the UK. KS1 SCF £11.00 |
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Voices A dual language collection of autobiographical writing by refugees of all ages. The series raises issues of human rights and being a refugee. Voices from: · Angola · Eritrea · Kurdistan · Somalia · Sudan · Uganda · Zaire KS2/3/4/+ Minority Rights Group £4.00 each |
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Why Do They Have to Fight? Refugee children's stories from Bosnia, Kurdistan, Somalia and Sri Landa, illustrated with photographs and refugee children's drawing, this resource is designed for young people to read. It raises issues about the difficulties facing refugees, and includes information about each of the countries and discussion points. KS3/4 Refugee Council £5.00 |
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Refugees: We left because we had to A handbook of teaching activities about refugees from and in different parts of the world, including Europe. KS4/+ The Refugee Council £7.00 |
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Focus on Stories: water and development issues Why must we make Tiddalick the frog laugh? What happens when a river falls in love with the beautiful Lucia, and rises from its bed to follow her? These are some of the imaginative ideas found in children's stories from around the world, all on the theme of water. The pack uses stories, photos and activities to introduce children to water: what it is, why it is precious, why we should care for it. KS1 Birmingham DEC/Severn Trent Water £11.95 |
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Clean Water: A right for all Students analyse their own access to and use of water and consider the situation of people in other parts of the world. They look at the importance of hygiene and water, floods and the reasons for them, media reportage of disasters, water pollution in the UK. Includes science and technology experiments and activities. KS1/2 Unicef £11.50 |
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Focus on Ethiopia: Water and development issues Who owns water? Is there enough of it to go round? Does it cause conflicts? Water issues in our homes, at school, in our local area and then in Ethiopia are explored. Full of practical activities. KS2 Geography, science, technology Birmingham DEC/Severn Trent Water £11.95 |
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The Water Game A fun way for children to learn about the importance of clean water. Includes board-game and information on a water project in Nicaragua. KS2/+ Christian Aid £3.00 |
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Focus on Ghana: Water and development issues The natural, economic, social and political factors which influence access to safe drinking water are explored through case studies of the Rivers Severn and Volta and water projects in Derbyshire and Ghana. KS3/4 Birmingham DEC/Severn Trent Water £7.50 |
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Making a Meal of It! A variety of activities to examine food and development issues such as how our food links us to the rest of the world, and why people in other parts of the world who grow food often go hungry themselves. KS2/3 Oxfam £13.95 |
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Go Bananas! With a focus on banana production in the Caribbean and its journey to Britain, the pack provides a detailed example of the way in which food grown overseas passes through many workers' hands and goes through many stages and processes before it reaches our supermarket shelves. KS1/2/3 Oxfam £14.00 |
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The Whole World Cake Focusing in particular on flour, sugar, brazil nuts, bananas and chocolate in the Philippines, Jamaica, Brazil and Dominica, a variety of activities explore where our food comes from. Special emphasis on human stories, recipes and songs. KS2 Christian Aid £8.50 |
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The Big City Pack Focusing on 4 cities in 4 continents - Glasgow (Scotland), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Santiago (Chile) and Dakar (Senegal) - this pack explores the popular themes of markets and shopping, transport, leisure, and development and change. KS1/2 Oxfam £13.95 |
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The Backbone of Development Resources and ideas for understanding the role of women in economic development, drawing on women's experiences in Nepal and Taiwan, and designed to encourage debate about gender and power issues. Valuable activities and stimulus materials for PSE, RE, business studies, economics, technology and geography. KS3/4 Birmingham DEC £9.90 |
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The Global Money Machine Resources and ideas for a wider understanding of the global economy and 'core/periphery' patterns. Taiwan is the focus for examining economic development and asking what happens when new rich nations emerge. Valuable source materials for teachers of business studies, EIU, geography and technology. KS3/4 Birmingham DEC £5.75 |
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Women Mean Business A 45 minute video resource based on IBT's documentary Pain, Passion and Profit and presented by Body Shop entrepreneur Anita Roddick, who travels to Ghana and Kenya to learn from different kinds of income-generation projects for women. It shows parallels and differences between women's struggles to get started and survive in a male-dominated financial world, presenting positive images of Africa and women. KS4/+ IBT £15.00 |
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Marketplace: International trade game Through the activities and experiences in the game, children learn that: countries need to trade to buy things for their communities; different countries in different parts of the world produce and consume different things; trade is affected by demand; a country's ability to produce is affected by physical, economic and political activities, many of which are outside its control. KS1/2 Traidcraft £7.50 |
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The Clothes Line Cotton production and the clothing industry provide the focus of this pack, with particular reference to India. It offers a detailed example of the people who play a part in making the clothes we wear. KS2 Oxfam £13.95 |
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Spilling the Beans: Exploring the Cocoa Trade in Ghana This pack (with 16-minute video) examines issues of fair trade through the case study of cocoa farmers in Ghana. East Enders' star, Des Coleman, meets the people who rely on fair trade for their livelihoods and finds out why fair trade is so important to them. The video is supported by a teachers' booklet containing background information and pupil activity sheets. KS4/+ Oxfam £12.00 |
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XChanging the World This activity based pack looks at how the world trade system produces poverty and inequality. It provides an excellent introduction to trade issues, with photocopiable activities and games. Key issues include social and environmental auditing, the debt crisis, the role of transnational corporations, and tourism. Includes a case study of the cut flower trade. 16/+ RISC £13.95 |
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Questioning Tourism Students' experiences as hosts and holiday-makers form the basis from which this pack enables them to examine the global tourist industry. KS2/3 CI £4.00 |
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Looking beyond the Brochure: Issues for Gambians, Issues for You The subjects of tourism and travel provide an excellent vehicle to deal with key areas across the curriculum. This new videopack offers activities and lesson plans, using The Gambia as a case study. The booklet can be used to make connections between tourism in The Gambia and young people's lives in the UK. KS3/4 Tourism Concern £9.25 |
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Sacha Mama (Mother Jungle): Eco-tourism in the Amazonian rainforest A case study of eco-tourism in Napo, Ecuador, a remote region of the Amazonian rainforest. Pupils will gain an understanding of life in a rainforest area and how people are using the forest's resources in a sustainable way. KS3/4 ActionAid £14.95 |
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Take me to the rainforest: eco-tourism in the Amazonian rainforest Forty photographs (to print out or work with on-screen) and 10 minutes of video bring the Napo region of the Ecuadorian Amazon to life on your computer. Text files include rules for visitors, the diary of an eco-tourist in the community of Capirona, details of the local Quichua organisation that runs the tours, and information on websites for more information. KS3/4 (Windows/Mac OS) ActionAid £17.25 |
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Be My Guest The impact of tourism on people and their environment is explored through activities such as group discussion, data analysis, formal writing and role play, backed up by source material about real communities. KS4/+ Tourism Concern £6.50 |
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Destinations in Focus: A resource pack on sustainable tourism Extensive case studies are provided - on Barbados, Turkey, North Pennines (UK), Goa (India), Amboseli (Kenya). The pack encourages an appreciation of the complex issues that need to be tackled in any in-depth study of tourism, fosters a questioning approach to statistical and advertising material associated with tourism studies, and sets the tourism industry within the wider context of sustainable development. 16/+ Tourism Concern £10.00 |
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New Departures: Tourism and Sustainable Development This resource is designed to supplement post-16 work on tourism. There are case studies on St Lucia, The Gambia, Brazil, Ladakh and Europe, which are well-researched and full of detailed information. The activities encourage students to think about the issues of sustainable development in terms of Europe, not just the 'Third World'. Ages 16-18 CEWC £11.00 |
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The Community Tourism Guide This guide brings together invaluable information about a new type of holiday for those concerned about the impact of their visits on local people and the environment. Tribal people and rural villagers around the world are setting up their own tours from which they, rather than international hotel chains, will derive income. For teachers and pupils interested in learning about ethical tourism, this guide gives case study material and detailed information including web addresses. 16/+ Tourism Concern/Earthscan £9.99 |