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Population POSSIBILITIES and POWER over the decision-making process
Global and regional/continental trends in family size, sex ratios, and ageing/greying
Policies associated with managing population change, focusing on:
policies related to ageing societies
pro-natalist or anti-natalist policies
gender equality policies and anti-trafficking policies
The demographic dividend and the ways in which population could be considered a resource when contemplating possible futures
One case study of a country benefiting from a demographic dividend
1.3a -Global and regional/continental trends in family size, sex ratios, and ageing/greying
1.3a -Global and regional/continental trends in family size, sex ratios, and ageing/greying
STARTER: Homework to prepare for lesson.
Task: Go over this presentation and scan through the three links to information to help answer questions in the Document.
Task make a copy of this Presentation - complete this in groups of 3. All of you must put your copy into your folder.
Alternative - Document template - copy, fill in and put in your folders.
Resources
World Fertility Patterns - World in Data. Also World Population review and great infographic from Visual Capitalist.
Ageing Population - Map and data (World Bank) and Interesting visuals and report from visualcapitalist
1.3b Policies related to ageing societies
1.3b Policies related to ageing societies
TASK: Create and informative Video on either Japan or Singapores Ageing Population challenge and associated policies.
World Economic Forum - These two countries are most ready to deal with an ageing population. J and S
National Geographic -Japan faces the reality of a nation of old people
ChatGPT response - "Evaluate Japans policies to cope with an ageing population"
Singapore: Download Instructions and info:
Videos
I recommend getting some good charts to put in the background of your video - note this does not need green screen. Unless of course you want to be in front of the chart.
OECD uses 5 good charts to highlight the demographic issue.
Singapore Ageing Population Resources
Singapore Ageing Population Resources
Background - What is the issue?
Start Article - Singapore's Ageing Population - A ticking time bomb!
Today: Ageing population to drag down S’pore’s annual GDP per capita growth for decades:
Singapore’s Ageing Population and Nursing: Looking to the Future
Chat Gpt response to the question " - Evaluate the policies of Singapore to cope with its ageing population".. be honest.. most of the info will come from here. You must however back it up with some facts, figures, charts and interviews.
Statistics and Charts
Statistica - Fact sheet on ageing in Singapore - Start here
Singapores Demographic Timebomb in 5 charts
Challenges and Responses
SG well prepared for Silver Tsunami - article discussing importance of older generation continuing to work later.
Duke-NUS medical college - A Silver Tsunami looms - what can Singapore do about it?
Opportunities
Straits Times - Singapores approach to healthy ageing is to see it as a positive force.
Tech opportunities from an ageing population.
See the site called - I feel young....
Who runs this website and what are its aims?
Video Resources - CNA
Jun 21 - Singapore census - working adults support more seniors
The Silver dollar - business in ageing
Adapting to Ageing - watch 8.20-18.20
Active Ageing - Keeping old people healthy
Raising retirement age - 2021 (latest news)
Singapores elderly poor - lovely but sad
Challenge: Create a 5 minute news story evaluating the Singapore Governement response to an ageing population.
Who did it better?
Who did it better?
Geonerds of 21-23 or Geonerds of 24-26
Geonerds of 21-23 or Geonerds of 24-26
Context: 21/23 when government announce TK campus was being closed and turned into an old people's home.
1.3c Pro and Anti-Natalist Policies -
1.3c Pro and Anti-Natalist Policies -
You will be asked to look at infographics and obtain information from them as well as be critical of them in your exam. Use this information and also the following links to complete the task below.
Task 1: You will create a Presentation (using this template) about China's one child Policy.
Important Documents to read / print out/ make a copy of:
South China Morning Post - a good and recent evaluation of the policy
The Economist - China's Achilles Heel
BBC - Ageing China - Changes and challenges
Independent - China's little Emperors
Al Jazeera - how has the end of the one child policy affected China.
Guardian: Can China recover from its Disastrous one child policy - good for evaluation (last slide)
The Economist 2021 - China rapidly shifts from a two-child to a three-child policy
Demographic Collapse - China - good but 20mins long vid.
2024/5 Cohort of Geonerds -
Yes... that's you..
You will be using a range of resources including Book, Infographic, Video and AI (e.g. ChatGpt or Diffit) to find out and evaluate a range of Population Policies
All work is to be completed individually and on a copy of this document.
Other Population Policies
Other Population Policies
Task 2: Use this book resource to add detail to the case studies.
You will be using this document to complete further case studies on
Singapore - a pro-natalist policy
Kerala (a state in India) - an anti-natalist policy based upon gender equality policies
demographic dividend.pdf1.3e - Demographic Dividend
1.3e - Demographic Dividend
Resources:
Pages 36-9 of Oates book - (Link)
Youtube: Watch to understand what is the demographic dividend and what conditions are needed for it.
PRB - Population Reference Bureau: 7 mins - better.
Youtube: Watch - Harnessing the demographic dividend.
Document - note taking template
Geofile - clear notes with examples of demographic divident.
1.3f Gender equality policies and anti-trafficking policies.
1.3f Gender equality policies and anti-trafficking policies.
Part 1 - Anti-Trafficking
Watch this TED talk before the lesson - it gives you the background on trafficking.
Mini case study - girls from North Vietnam trafficked to China. -
Resources:
Make sure you have gone through the infographics tasks on the skills page first.
Document to go with this section - Download and Fill in.
Case Studies
Case Studies
Guardian: Trafficking of Nigerian women into Europe for prostitution at crisis levels.
ILO - International Labour Organisation - Ending the abuse of Domestic workers
Guardian - Qatar 2022 workers treated like cattle
Guardian: Forced labour in Malaysia's electronics industry
Interpol: - This is an important global organisation linking police of various nations to coordinate arrests..
Type of Exam Question you may be asked here:
"Evaluate the success of Anti-Trafficking policies". (5 marks)
Command Term: Evaluate (AO3): Make an appraisal by weighing up the strengths and limitations
You do not yet have enough information on Anti-Trafficking policies. You Need to know about
The TVPA
The UN 2003 Protocol to Prevent, Support and Punish Trafficking in Persons
Some figures to allow you to evaluate the success of policies - you have some but need more -
Further Notes Option
ChatGpt Prompt - "Evaluate the success of Anti-Trafficking policies with reference to the TVPA"
Notes - for each factor get a + and a -
Go to pages 416 / 418 of your books and add enough notes at the end to be able to write an evaluative answer to the question above.
1.3g Gender equality policies
1.3g Gender equality policies
Resources:
Note taking template to help you.
Task 1: Create notes on a range of countries who have undertaken policies to promote greater gender equality. For each country:
Refer to some policies
Determine the current state of gender equality in the country
Evaluate the success of policies.
Task 2: Prepare for the following exam question using this template - "Gender equality policies will never be successful" Discuss this statement.
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