Fields of Inquiry

and Global Issues

A list of some Global Issues

www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/global-issues-overview/

www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/

1. Field of Inquiry:

Culture, Identity and Community

A Doll’s House
Body of Work: Old Spice advertisements
The song lyrics of Stephen Patrick Morrissey of The Smiths

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jan/21/the-smiths-10-of-the-best

https://www.azlyrics.com/s/smiths.html

https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/themes/exploring-identity
https://themissingslate.com/2013/05/20/belonging-identity-through-literature/

Global Issues: women’s rights, equality, discrimination of sexuality societal expectations, reactions and behaviour, livelihoods, relationships, identity, gender/race discrimination.

• The Outsider

• A Streetcar Named Desire

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/culture-clash-splits-canadians-over-basic-values/article4626123/

• https://www.hse.ru/en/news/research/146039755.html

Global Issues:

how characters are shaped and interact with values.

Traditional values verse the new,

the changing of values, whose values and beliefs?

Consequences challenging dominant values and beliefs.

Field of Inquiry

Beliefs, Values and Education

3. Field of Inquiry

Politics, Power and Justice

• 1984 or The Handmaid’s Tale //

Wilfred Owen poems // Robert Capa's photographs

• https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/26/cardinal-george-pell-vatican-treasurer-found-guilty-of-child-sexual-assault

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidvolodzko/2019/02/25/is-south-korea-sliding-toward-digital-dictatorship/#5fc1dc8f648e

Global Issues: Horrors of war, Deceit / deception of the public, Conflict, Corruption, Human Rights, Abuse of power, Power to control, Means of power.

Letters from WW1 Soldiers

WW1 Propaganda Posters

4. Field of Inquiry

Art, Creativity and the Imagination

• Selected poems - Carol Anne Duffy / Banksy's Artworks

• https://www.herald.co.zw/artists-can-help-change-peoples-perceptions/

• https://www.tate.org.uk/art/tate-exchange/can-art-change-society

Global issues: what is art? What is literature? What is creativity? The shaping and challenging of perceptions through art, the use of art for social criticism, the role of art in society

5. Field of Inquiry

Science, Technology and the Natural World

• The Women in the Dunes - Kobo Abe

• Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/25/afraid-cloning-humans-macaque-monkeys-reality

• https://www.reuters.com/video/2018/12/17/china-sees-a-business-in-cloning-mans-be?videoId=493043359

Global Issues: The power of nature, lack of technology and its effects, using nature as punishment, using technology to replace nature, exploiting technology for human development.