Tax and Trade Workshop

This workshop offers input and advice on the exploration of the global justice issue of ‘Tax and Trade’ in post-primary school.

Workshop Resources

Video Recording

The recording provides:

• Input from Financial Justice Ireland on the global justice issue of ‘Tax and Trade’.
• Practical advice on how to explore ‘Tax and Trade’ through WWGS 6 step programme (approach, good resources, videos, ideas for raising awareness and taking meaningful actions etc).
• Input from Rachel McEntee, Maths, Business and Economics teacher on how they took a thematic approach to ‘Tax and Trade’.

You can find the recording of the workshop here.

Presentations

• Here’s the main presentation from the workshop: Tax and Trade
• Here’s Financial Justice Ireland’s presentation: WWGS_Tax & Trade 2020

Tips on teaching Tax and Trade topics in class

Rachel McEntee, Maths, Business and Economics teacher gave some great advice that you can see on the recordings but she added some more top tips here:

• If the trading game is too much for people starting out, you could try the unequal distribution of resources with sweets/biscuits.
• I also like the ranking activity in How The World Works 2
• A challenge is maybe not knowing as much of the history before starting out on activities.
• I think there are plenty of opportunities to link with Technology subjects too.
• CBA2 ideas for Business from my own class(to be narrowed down):
• How ethical are MNCs?
• Fast fashion-local v multinational and sustainability
• The difference between the role of men and women in business (not tax and trade)
• Advantages and disadvantages of sugar tax
• Impact of MNCs on an economy
• Why are some products more expensive?
• How will Brexit affect trade?

WWGS lists of resources

Resource sheets on Global Goal 17:

• Resources on Tax
• Resources on Trade

In the links above you can find lots of links that are mentioned in the workshop.