Populations+in+Transition

=Populations in Transition= // Overview of skills, attitudes, concepts, knowledge, assessment statement keys // ||
 * ** Learning Objectives: **
 * 1- Explain population trends and patterns in births (Crude Birth Rate), natural increase, and mortality (Crude Death Rate, infant and child mortality rates), fertility and life expectancy in contrasting regions of the world. Analyse population pyramids. Explain population momentum and its impact on population projections. **5 hours **

2- R esponses to high and low fertility Explain dependency and ageing ratios. Analyse the impacts of youthful and ageing populations. Evaluate examples of a pro-natalist policy and an anti-natalist policy. **4 hours **

3- M ovement responses— migration Discuss the causes of migrations, both forced and voluntary. Evaluate internal (national) and international migrations in terms of their geographic (socio-economic, political and environmental) impacts at their origins and destinations. **6 hours **

4- Gender and change Examine gender inequalities in culture, status, education, birth ratios, health, employment, empowerment, life expectancy, family size, migration, legal rights, and land tenure. **4 hours ** ||


 * Population momentum.** The tendency for population growth to continue beyond the time that replacement-level fertility has been achieved because of a relatively high concentration of people in the childbearing years. For example, the absolute numbers of people in developing countries will continue to increase over the next several decades even as the rates of population growth will decline. This phenomenon is due to past high fertility rates which results in a large number of young people. As these youth grow older and move through reproductive ages, the greater number of births will exceed the number of deaths in the older populations

[|World Population Site] Describe what has happened to the world population during the past 100 years. What is a trend? What is a pattern? How can we spot them?
 * 1 || Introduction to Population.

Define, describe, explain population trends and patterns in births (Crude Birth Rate), natural increase, and mortality (Crude Death Rate, infant and child mortality rates), fertility and life expectancy in contrasting regions of the world. WorldMapper GapMinder || 2 || BR, DR, Fertility, Mortality. How can we measure these statistics? Why do we measure them and what does that tell us about countries level of economic and social development?

HANS ROSLING TED TALK 2 || 3 || Demographic Transition Model. Who is where in the world? How can we model fertility and mortality as they vary across time and space?

|| China, India, Italy worksheets (paper handout) || 5 || Explain dependency and ageing ratios. What are they? Which countries do they affect? || 6 || Anti Natalist Policy - Youthful Populations. The Gambia and Malawi Define youthful population. Does the Gambia have a youthful population? Evaluate the success of NGO's in The Gambia in reducing fertility rates. || || 8 || Youthful, Ageing, Population momentum - China
 * 4 || Analyse population pyramids.
 * 7 || Pro-Natalist Policy. Ageing Populations. Japan, China, Romania, UK and France

|| 9 || ESSAY SKILLS Evaluate examples of a pro-natalist policy and an anti-natalist policy ||
 * 10 || MIGRATION- movement responses

Discuss the causes of migrations, both forced and voluntary.

Theories of Migration p17 Nagle and Cook - Ravenstein, Lee, Zipf, PUSH PULL. || 11 || Trends in Migration globally. || 12 || Evaluate internal (national) and international migrations in terms of their geographic (socio-economic, political and environmental) impacts at their origins and destinations.

International Voluntary COLUMBIA to the USA

|| Malawi, Brazil, || 14 || Forced Migrations. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Congo
 * 13 || Internal voluntary Migration

|| 15 || Refugees. Darfur, Congo/Malawi (outside speakers) || Perceptions of Women
 * 16 || GENDER and CHANGE

Statistically, are women worse off than men? || 17 || Behind the statistics. Examples of inequality. Acid attacks in Bangladesh || 18 || Behind the statistics. Examples of inequality. Academic documents - research and summary skills. The Road to Gender equality in Africa. || The future. Are women's rights and opportunities being improved? [|UNDP data MDG3] [|UNDP Example Timor Leste] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 19 || Behind the statistics. Examples of inequality.