Societies organise power, resources, belief systems, and development through governance structures that determine fairness, accountability, and sustainability.
HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVES
Fairness & Development • Equity • Power • Governance • Responsibility
Age Group: MYP 5 (15–16 years)
Duration: 3 Days / 2 Nights
Venue: Hassan & Sakleshpur – Heritage Sites, Infrastructure Systems, and Biodiversity Landscapes
Learning Style: Inquiry-driven • Critical • Experiential • Reflective • Collaborative
Includes: Pre-Tour Framing • On-Tour Critical Inquiry • Post-Tour Synthesis and Action
This programme enables students to critically examine how societies organise themselves through systems of governance, belief, resource management, and development. Students analyse how authority is created, how resources are controlled and distributed, and how ideas of fairness and progress are debated over time.
Field-based inquiry across religious centres, heritage temples, forts, dams, plantations, and ecosystems supports evidence-based reasoning, ethical judgement, and comparative systems analysis.
Thinking Skills
Systems analysis, evaluation, synthesis, ethical reasoning
Communication Skills
Academic discussion, analytical writing, evidence-based justification
Social Skills
Collaborative inquiry, respectful debate, shared leadership
Self-Management Skills
Independent reflection, responsibility, sustained focus
Students will:
• Analyse how governance and belief systems shape social organisation
• Evaluate how power and resources are distributed and justified
• Investigate development models and their social and environmental impacts
• Assess fairness, accountability, and sustainability within systems
• Propose ethical approaches to future development
Students will:
• Explain how belief systems influence laws, norms, and behaviour
• Interpret how architecture and infrastructure communicate authority
• Analyse how resources are managed, contested, and conserved
• Use evidence to critique development choices
• Propose informed, ethical solutions to real-world challenges