3. How can we analyse global politics?

Activity 1 - What are levels of analysis?

Activity Tasks

Examine - Explore the mind-map image of the issue of ivory poaching on Slide 4 of the Lesson Presentation. Can you explain what the mind-map is showing?
Create - Create a new Padlet Canvas. Call it, ‘What are levels of analysis’? Place the image of the burger in the centre of your mind-map.
Analyse - Using the six levels of analysis, brainstorm how we could analyse the burger from these different levels of analysis. What political issues could we identify at each level of analysis?
Share - Once you have finished, share the link to your Padlet with the class. What are the most significant political issues you’ve identified, and at what level of analysis do they exist?

Activity Tasks

Recall - Locate and examine your glossaries from the last lesson. You will need to refer to the sixteen key concepts and levels of analysis for this task.
Review - Review Slides 6-9 of the Lesson Presentation. For each picture on the slides, work out what the political issue is, and identify which levels of analysis would be most appropriate for exploring those issues.
Identify - For each image, also decide upon which of the sixteen key concepts is most relevant to the political issue.

Activity Tasks

Create - Either create a new Padlet Canvas or use A3 paper to mind-map. Title your mind-map ‘Whose perspective anyway?’ and in the centre, write down one of the following questions that you would like to examine:
1. Should Hong Kong be teaching more ‘national education’?
2. To what extent could Donald Trump be considered an effective President?
3. Has Japan apologised enough for crimes committed during WW2?
4. Should countries welcome asylum seekers with open arms?
5. Whose responsibility is it to solve climate change?
Identify - On your mind-map, note down all the different viewpoints and perspectives that could be taken on your question. Write down the names of all stakeholders that would have an interest in the question e.g. people, groups
Analyse - For each perspective that you have identified, try to describe what their viewpoint might be and why, referring to the different global politics perspectives where relevant: class, gender, ethnicity, religion, language, culture.
Discuss - Whose perspective gets listened to the most? Which perspectives are the most ignored? Why is this?

Activity Tasks

Review - Explore the information on Slides 11-13 of the Lesson Presentation on the political spectrum. Make notes and try to define what the political spectrum is. Why do you think we need it? What purpose does it serve?
Assess - What is your political perspective? Go to this political compass website and answer the questions to find out what your ‘label’ is.
Share - Once you have finished, plot where you are on the whiteboard political compass your teacher has designed. What's the dominant political perspective in class? Why do you think this is?
Discuss - What do you think are the major influences on your decision making? e.g. family, religion, media etc...

Activity Tasks

Explore - Examine the information on Slides 14-15 of the Lesson Presentation about political actors.
Discuss - What are political actors? What is the difference between state and non-state actors?
Read - Read this article about climate change and try to identify as many political actors as you can.
Sort - Examine your list of political actors. Using the information from Slide 15, label each of your political actors according to type. e.g. NGOs, IGOs, MNCs, Criminal Groups, States, Individuals