Industrialisation

Written by Ruedi Herzog

Contents	Applied history task on moving from an agrarian society to a service and knowledge society featuring India (but which could be replaced by other suitable former colonies)
Suitable for	Gymnasium, 10th–12th year
Prerequisites	Knowledge of: the economic and social development of Western Europe from 1800 till today; positive and negative impacts of these changes (opportunities and risks); various approaches to minimize the negative impacts
Time	3 lessons plus time working at home

What's it about?

Students have to develop a master plan for the development of a currently non-industrialised country (India) to move from an agrarian society and economy to a service and knowledge society. The ideology here is that students have to apply knowledge they have acquired in the lessons in a new context.

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Industrialisation
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