The best bits for teaching Globalisation

Written November 2025
From September until now (November 2025) I’ve been doing a BIG update of my Edexcel A-Level Globalisation resources. This is partly because the world changes so much from year to year and partly because, well, nearly 10 years into the spec, I realised that I was still massively over-teaching some sections. In my recent webinars for Cooper Education (more coming next year!), I feel like I made the same point a hundred times over: the most common problem I see at A-Level is over-teaching…

Now, that’s not to say that we shouldn’t go beyond the spec at points (of course we should- I’ve shared my thoughts on how here) but I do think we need to be careful about where we’re going off-piste- are we going so far off-piste that our students struggling to see the wood through the trees? Are we making the core knowledge of the topic clear? Are we focusing on the right things, in the right depth? With the rise of AI, this is a problem I see only getting worse (something I’d like to blog about what I get time…).

So, in a quest to share my knowledge having taught this every year since 2016, I wanted to share some ‘best bits’ that I use in my resources. Some are old, some are new but all are here for a reason: they are the best resources I can currently find for teaching this section. Hopefully this will be a useful summary but I’d love to hear anything I might have missed out or not be aware of- please get in touch!

3.1
This clip for introducing the concept of globalisation.
This clip for introducing containerisation and its significance.
This podcast as extra reading / listening about containerisation.

3.2
This table as a summary of the different IGOs- taken from the Hodder Revision Guide.

3.3
This clip for putting recent global events into perspective with regards to globalisation.
This article for introducing the rise of Chinese TNCs.

And, my absolute old-fashioned favourite, a hand-drawn mind map for summarising EQ1.

3.4
This graph for showing the significance of the global shift to China.
This article for up to date information about the outsourcing of services to India.
This article for a syntopic look at the impact of fast fashion.

 3.5
This article for making the link between urbanisation and energy consumption (and thus environmental problems).
This clip for going beyond the spec and teaching about the impact of climate change on rural-urban migration.
This article for going beyond the spec and teaching the impacts of rural-urban migration in China.

3.6
This clip for teaching about the rise of the Paralympic movement.
This website for an update on facts and figures about Paralympic coverage.
This table as a summary of the difference factors that have caused cultural diffusion (taken from Hodder revision guide).
This clip for teaching about how France protects itself again cultural erosion.
This extract as extra reading about why Papua New Guinea has so many languages:

To be continued as I teach it… Watch this space…