The Cambridge IGCSE Global Perspectives course provides opportunities for enquiry into, and reflection on, key global issues from different perspectives: personal, local/national and global. Global Perspectives encourages awareness of global problems and offers a range of opportunities to explore solutions
The Cambridge IGCSE Global Perspectives course provides opportunities for enquiry into, and reflection on, key global issues from different perspectives: personal, local/national and global. Global Perspectives encourages awareness of global problems and offers a range of opportunities to explore solutions through collaboration. The course is not about getting everybody to think identically; rather it is a matter of opening minds to the complexity of the world and of human thought, and encouraging empathy for the diversity of human experience and feeling. Recent topics studied have included such diverse topics as migration, racism in the police, gentrification, the burkini and emojis.
Cambridge IGCSE Global Perspectives gives students the opportunities to acquire and apply a range of skills to support them in these challenges, including:
• researching, analysing and evaluating information;
• developing and justifying a line of reasoning;
• reflecting on processes and outcomes;
• communicating information and reasoning;
• collaborating to achieve a common out