I don't know about other geography teachers, but I am becoming increasingly uncomfortable about using terms such as developed and developing countries or MEDC/LEDCs. The World Bank has already ditched these phrases from their vocabulary, so is it now time to have a fresh look at how we teach the world to our students? Is this book the best starting point for reforming our geography curriculum? Many people think so. Source:- https://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/46632174585 Okay, categorising countries as developed and developing is a nice easy way of representing the living standards of populations around our planet for our students to understand. However, we know in our hearts that actually, this is wrong!! Indeed, what we are still effectively doing is telling our youngsters that certain countries are rich and others are poor. The insinuation then follows that somehow developing countries are somehow inferior and live lives of disease filled, starvation riddled misery. At the end of
