3 - HDI & inequalities

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Geography year 2

Mister de Graaf

Boss of Geography

This lesson

• Reflection: last lesson
• Human Development Index
• Your turn: exercises
• World System: theory
• Your turn: Practical Assignment

Geography Year 2

Development

Practical Assignment (1x)

Big Test (3x)

GP Project: European Union (1x)

Cities

Practical Assignment (1x)

Big Test (3x) - Final testweek

Weather and Climate

Small Test (1x)

Practical Assignment (1x)

Big Test (3x)

Landscape

Practical Assignment (2x)

Poor or rich?

Last lesson

Discussion: what is poor? what is rich?

Learning objectives last lesson

Understand how to use different statistics to figure out how developed a country is.

Last lesson

How do we measure the wealth of a country?

Last lesson

How do we measure the wealth of a country?

GDP per capita

Distribution of the workforce across different economic sectors

Last lesson

How do we measure the well-being of a country?

Last lesson

How do we measure the well-being of a country?

Last lesson

Last lesson

Couple of questions coming up

First think for yourselves

Then discuss it with your neighbour

Then share it in class

Think. Pair. Share.

1. Have you ever been in an LEDC?
   If so, what was most striking to you?
   If not, which LEDC would you like to visit or are you curious about?
2. Imagine you live in a slum. Your family can only afford to buy either a private toilet or a mobile phone. For which option would you go? Why?
3. Try to imagine that you live in an LEDC and that you don’t have sufficient money for food and education. Would you try to migrate to another country where lots of things are new and unknown to you?
   
4. What makes you happy in life? Are these primarily material or nonmaterial things?
   

Last lesson

3 minutes to think

3 minutes to discuss

Learning objectives this lesson

Using development indicators to explain the well-being and prosperity of a country

You can name the three parts of the center - periphery model (world system).

Exercises

Core

Semi-periphery

  

Periphery

Core

The economy is mainly based on services (tertiary sector);

There is a lot of (technological) knowledge and capital available;

Focused on the profitable sides of the production chain, for example design and marketing;

High average income.

Semi-periphery

The economy is strongly focused on industrial activity (secondary sector), but there is often a growing service sector as well;

Benefits from the extension of the production chain. The manufacturing industry is located here;

There is often strong economic growth and the average income is rising (for example in the BRICS countries). This also leads to growing inequality.

Periphery

The economy is highly dependent on the primary sector (agriculture, fishing, mining);

Mainly supplies raw materials and (cheap) labour;

economically lagging behind the rest of the world.

Core

  

Semi-periphery

  

Periphery

Practical assignment

A journey through rich and poor

Create a social media account: Instagram / TikTok / Polarsteps

Design your own journey

A poor (wo)man's diary

Write a 3-day diary from the perspective of a person growing up in poverty.

Practical assignment