Identify Global Issues (IB definition)

What are the 3 qualities of Global Issues? They have to:

• be transnational

• be very general and broad

• be local and specific

• have an impact on local contexts

• have significance on a wide scale

Global Issues can be just a word or two

• True

• False

Global Issues need to be formulated in full sentences.

• True

• False

In order to formulate your Global Issues sentences, you can use the 5 fields of enquiry as inspiration.

• True

• False

Global Issues as needed for IB can be concepts taken literally from the 5 Fields of Enquiry

• True

• False

"The complexity of mother-daughter relationships"

• This is a Global Issue

• This is too broad, too general - NOT a global issue

• This is too local, too narrow, too specific - NOT a global issue

"Fame (of a rock ‘n’ roll singer Elvis Presley) and its impact on his private life and mental health"

• This is a Global Issue

• This is too broad, too general - NOT a global issue

• This is too local, too narrow, too specific - NOT a global issue

"Women and men are held to different beauty standards"

• This is a Global Issue

• This is too broad, too general - NOT a global issue

• This is too local, too narrow, too specific - NOT a global issue

"Race, inequality, and identity"

• This is a Global Issue

• This is too broad, too general - NOT a global issue

• This is too local, too narrow, too specific - NOT a global issue

"Masking insecurity through manipulation"

• This is a Global Issue

• This is too broad, too general - NOT a global issue

• This is too local, too narrow, too specific - NOT a global issue