Gender and Change.

Examine gender inequalities in culture, status, education, birth rates, health, employment, empowerment,life expectancy, family size, migration, legal rights and land tenure.

Watch the video above and make notes on Gender Inequality.

Please use this PowerPoint to make notes on Gender and Change.

This is an examine question so you should firstly make a list of assumptions that people hold regarding Gender and improving the lives of Women.  If you like an assumption in this case could a be myth.

Here are some Myths that you could challenge.

• Women are "charity cases" and need special help to enter the work place.
• Women do not have the same leadership potential of men.
• Educate women, and fertility rates will automatically drop.
• Women in the Muslim world socialized to expect second-class status.
• Gender inequality is only significant in LEDC.
• Women in the Muslim world place gender inequality among their societies' biggest problems.

Gender inequality assumptions and interrelationships.

This part of the syllabus asks you to examine the issue of Gender Inequality.

You could look at assumptions as myths or factoids.

Here are some that you can challenge.

1. Women need special help to be productive members of society in an equal footing with men.
2.  Educate women, and fertility rates will automatically drop.

3. Development helps women, rather than women help development.

4. Women in the Muslim world socialized to expect second-class status.

5. Gender issues are confined to LEDC's.

6. Women in the Muslim world place gender inequality among their societies' biggest problems?
7. Migration can help reduce poverty and its is mainly men that migrate. 
8. It is better to focus on men when trying to develop ICT in LEDCs.

Use this Presentation and respond to the above assumptions.  You should also try to explain how the gender inequality issues are linked with each other.  Simply improving one factor is not enough. 

You can also look at a few videos on this playlist. 

Gender and Change.

Examine gender inequalities in culture, status, education, birth rates, health, employment, empowerment,life expectancy, family size, migration, legal rights and land tenure.

Make on above video.  Your notes should show gender inequalities in the countries featured and how they are being addressed.

You can also make supplemental notes on China and Islamic countries using pages 50 to 55.

Team Islam please make notes using this PowerPoint, the material on Egypt is very interesting.

Next peer review essay.

Here is the next peer review essay.  The main example you are going to look at is Syria, the second example can be Afghanistan.


Evaluate the impact on the destination and origins of migration using examples of forced international migration (15 marks)


Details and help on the essay can be found on ISLE, this Blogg and this Google Doc.

Please remember the Command term and the mark scheme. 

Once you are done please submit the essay to the drop box for peer assessment.

Peer feedback guidelines.

Thanks Owen for these guidelines I can see you have put lots of hard work into this.  

We will use the guidelines for the next essay which you need to post by Wednesday 23 October.  I am out with the year 11 on fieldwork this week so please use the class time on Thursday 24 October to peer review the essay using the guidelines.

Marking Other Work:

4 good areas , one area for improvement (each grade criteria)

It is okay to give 2 good things and one improvement, as long as it adheres to the 4:1 ratio.

Bad comments:

“Very good essay” is not a good comment

Giving only negative comments is not a good way of giving feedback

Short and brief comments are not a way for them to improve

Good comments:

The sentence is relevant___________

This point is interesting because__________

I disagree with this point____________

I had never thought of_________

I was not aware of _________study

Skills for marking:

-        Read the intro and the conclusion first!

-        Reword the question using extended description of command terms

-        Vocab – highlight key terms used

-        PEEL – by looking at the first and last sentence of a paragraph , we can see what the paragraph is about “I knew what you were talking about via your first and last sentence” or  “the first and last sentence didn’t help me understand your paragraph because…….”

Examples of protocols from Peer Marking:

PEEL:

-         Topic sentences (from intro) etc demographic dividend

-        Linking the point with the question you are talking about

-        Evidence , statistics

-        Explanation to develop points

Reword Question:

-        general points that you will talk about

-        description of the command terms

-        Nitin’s: “assumption and interrelationships” has defined the question

-        look at the IB geography guide

Sentence structures:

-        “it is going to be very difficult just about impossible for China, now to correct” <- this is good because it gives a different view on optimum population not just decreasing population

Skills:

-        clearly states what Essay is about (in intro)

-        good summary in conclusion

-        the introduction gets the ball rolling

Vocabulary:

-        make a list of relevant command terms

-        highlight the command terms ( control f)

-        if the term is only found in one area , that is not good ,they need to be spread out

Tim’s Essay (marked by Hei Yin): 

   Skills: This essay will consider the concept of Chinas anti-natal policy in a way that uncovers assumptions & interrelationships.

   Command terms:

-        population momentum

-        demographic dividend

-        ageing population

Owen’s Essay (marked by Kristian)

4:1 Ratio: There is a good understanding of this situation, you have talked about the one child policy and an ageing population in depth. Social, environmental and economic impacts have been talked about well in the essay. You need to talk more in depth about the epidemiological transition and how it affects China.

Mexican Migration.

Mexican Migration.
 Please review these videos on Mexican Migration.

Just a reminder what the syllabus says.

Discuss the causes of migrations, both forced and
voluntary.
Evaluate internal (national) and internationalmigrations in terms of their geographic (socio‑economic,political and environmental) impacts at their origins anddestinations.

Why is there so much migration?

" More than one million farmers lost their livelihoods when the Mexican market was flooded with American agricultural products after the passage of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Learn how NAFTA and other free trade policies have affected economic reality for millions of Mexicans and have compelled so many people to migrate to the US out of need for a job."
Source. Global Exchange. 

"Climate change has resulted in natural disasters, as well as greater environmental degradation in 
certain regions. As a result, many people have lost their homes and their means of production have 
deteriorated. Poverty could therefore increase and other zones less affected by climate change could 
become more attractive, thereby leading to migratory movements. "

Source. BBVA Research. 

 Video 1.

Stay: Migration and poverty in rural Mexico

Video 2.

Impacts on Rural Areas.

Video 3. Environmental Impacts.

Economic Benefits to the USA. 

Impacts on Mexico. 

From Geography All The Way. 

Impacts of Migration on Syria.

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