Cost of Living and Best Quality of Life
Mercer Human Resources Consulting offers rankings of cities around the world. (See the web sites for details on the ranking criteria.)Could your students find correlations between cost of living, quality of life, and politics? They would have to gather some information about politics and governance.
And then they would have to categorize and organize that information so it was comparable. That wouldn't be a terrible thing to ask them to do as a comparative course begins.
The efforts might be stumbling and simplistic, but it could be a great beginning to recognizing the need for theory and comparative methodology.
Cost of Living Survey - Worldwide Ranking 2007 (from the top 50)
Base City: New York, USA (=100)
Rankings Cost of Living index
March 2007 City March 2007
1 MOSCOW 134.4
2 LONDON 126.3
3 SEOUL 122.4
4 TOKYO 122.1
5 HONG KONG 119.4
6 COPENHAGEN 110.2
7 GENEVA 109.8
8 OSAKA 108.4
9 ZURICH 107.6
10 OSLO 105.8...
12 ST. PETERSBURG 103.0...
20 BEIJING 95.9...
36 GLASGOW 88.1
37 LAGOS 88.0...
41 BIRMINGHAM (UK) 87.2...
Worldwide Quality of Living Survey 2007
Base City: New York, USA (=100)
Rankings Cost of Living index
2007 City March 2007
1 ZURICH 108.1
2 GENEVA 108.0
3 VANCOUVER 107.7
3 VIENNA 107.7
5 AUCKLAND 107.3
5 DUSSELDORF 107.3
7 FRANKFURT 107.1
8 MUNICH 106.9
9 BERN 106.5
9 SYDNEY 106.5...
39 LONDON 101.2...
Labels: concepts, pedagogy, theory
posted by Ken Wedding @ 8:03 AM
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