Introducing global development

This course will introduce you to ideas of global development and the interconnectedness of the world when it comes to understanding the most pressing social, economic, political, and environmental issues of our time. It will highlight the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and outline key global development issues such as migration, socio-economic security, technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and consider how we might better respond to them.This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD870 Understanding global development. You might also be interested in the related OpenLearn course, DD871 Introducing key global development challenges. To find out more, explore this OpenLearn article, which includes a video explaining what you can expect to learn.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Global issues
• 1 Global issues
• 2 Thinking about development
• 2 Thinking about development
• 3 The concept of international development
• 3 The concept of international development
• 4 Modernisation and development
• 4 Modernisation and development
• 5 Adopting a critical stance
• 5 Adopting a critical stance
• 6 The global nature of development
• 6 The global nature of development
• 7 Complexity and development
• 7 Complexity and development
• 8 Framework for a global development mindset
• 8 Framework for a global development mindset
• 9 The four elements of PASH
• 9 The four elements of PASH
• 10 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• 10 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• 11 Critiquing the SDGs
• 11 Critiquing the SDGs
• 12 Final words and next steps
• 12 Final words and next steps
• References
• Further reading
• Acknowledgements