using business questions bruce duggan providence college
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Using Business Questions
Bruce Duggan
Providence College
Thesis
business questions in high school can be interesting to students
• fun for teachers
a good way to teach issues in• history
• world affairs
• ethics
• Christianity
6 Possible Classes
1. How did that shoe get attached to your foot?
2. Ask an entrepreneur
3. Water, water, everywhere
4. AIDS drugs for Africa
5. Tear gas and sewing machines
6. What’s a fair slice of the wealth?
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1: How did that shoe…?
the shoe as geography history ethics
Business Issues
we debate business all the time• so do some of our students
the issues matter there is no Christian consensus
• that frees us in the classroom
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/sweatshops.htm\
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
long hours
repetitive work
conditions vary
wages near country averages
workers similar to youhttp://www.goiam.org/issue.cfm?cID=4459
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
http://www.reuters.com/article/forexNews/idUSTRE49M0NQ20081023?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
5: Tear Gas & Sewing Machines
roughly 158m children working in world 11% less in 2006 than 2002 70% working in agriculture
• others in street vending domestic servants sex trade
http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_44437.html
http://www.ilo.org/ipec/areas/Agriculture/lang--en/index.htm
http://www.ilo.org/ipec/areas/lang--en/index.htm
Business News
every story contains a business question bailouts layoffs Madoff fashion fame
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6: A Fair Slice?
incomewealth
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-202-x/2003000/4071497-eng.htm
http://www.td.com/economics/special/dt1206_wealth.jsp
6: A Fair Slice?
Imagine a factory 200 employees
• 1 CEO 5 Vice Presidents 20 mid-level managers & foremen 154 line workers 20 low-skills jobs
Rawls “the original position” “the veil of ignorance”
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/crs/36/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/
6: A Fair Slice?
Why? Does reality match your ideal? How did it get this way? Should we change it?
• How?
Would any of your answers be different if you weren’t a Christian?
Role
my notion to supply
• missing information
• missing views
to facilitate• graceful debate
• transitionsparticular general
secular Christian
What is a teacher’s role in these discussions?
Resources
1-sheets PowerPoint Books
• Ebert, R. J., Griffin, R. W., & Starke, F. A. 2009. Business Essentials. 5th Canadian ed. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada. ISBN 978-0-13-240575-1.