IGCSE: Global Perspectives
Topic: Introduction to GP
Issue: The study of Global Perspectives
What is Global Perspectives?
a. Global issues
IGCSE Global Perspectives gives students the opportunity to think about significant global issues and
to consider these from different perspectives.
b. Skills-based
The course is not just about developing knowledge. It develops a set of skills in research, analysis,
evaluation, communication, teamwork and reflection. It encourages learners to construct arguments,
present views, work collaboratively, support arguments, and reason and reflect on their place in a
connected world.
c. Personal development
IGCSE Global Perspectives encourages students to be confident, making independent judgements
and justifying opinions based on reasoning and evidence, encouraging ideas on and solutions to
issues of global interest. Students direct independent learning by exploring a wide range of sources
to present suggestions and courses of action, developing an understanding of why others have
certain attitudes and take the positions they do. In doing so, learners understand that there is a
range of perspectives on any given issue, and so develop their own perspective.
Different Perspectives
• What we see, hear or read helps to form our opinions, our values, and our understanding of
the world.
• An educated GP student does not rely on one claim to form opinions, but looks at different
perspectives, understands the different points of view, and forms conclusions with the help
of evidence or real-life experience.
• Consider different perspectives on the value of the women’s Football World Cup held in
Australia and New Zealand in 2023
Positive, negative
or both positive
Group identity How the event might affect them and negative
feelings towards
the World Cup
It can give you glory
It can give you a lot of money if u make a good It can be both
performance
Women It gives you fame if you will also make a good
International performance
Footballers It can also be bad if you made a horrible
performance for your team you can get hate
It can give you a lot of money because a lot of
people will come there and buy tickets Both
The city can gain fame if the game was very good
It can create business in the city
Residents of a It can get too crowdy for the local people that live
city hosting major there
games
It gives woman equal rights
Feminists Positive
They get much incomes
Factory workers positives
producing replica
team shirts
It produces a lot of pollution
Environmentalists Takes a lot of land Negative
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