Dear Critters,
A couple of months back you helped point me to resources and ideas for doing a session on mobile phones and 'conflict minerals' in Congo as part of a Peace studies day at a UK school. On someone's suggestion, I have written up the lesson plan I used and included a list of further hints and resources, and placed it on:
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/nick.megoran/word/blood_mobile.doc
It isn't hyperlinked to my website so you'll only find it by following this link. Please feel free to use and modify as you want, and if you improve on it then do send me your updated version! It is aimed at schools but I am working on updating it for my undergrads.
Thanks again all,
Peace - Nick
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Dr Nick Megoran,
Lecturer in Political Geography,
GPS Office, 5th Floor, Claremont Tower, School of Geography, Politics
and Sociology,
Newcastle University,
United Kingdom NE1 7RU.
Tel: +44 191 222 6450
url: www.megoran.org
"In our time of wars, of national self-conceit, of national jealousies
and hatreds ably nourished by people who pursue their own egotistic,
personal or class interests, geography must be - in so far as the
school may do anything to counterbalance hostile influences - a means
of dissipating these prejudices and of creating other feelings more
worthy of humanity." Peter Kropotkin, 'What geography ought to be', 1885.
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