Reducing the challenges of childcare in Myanmar

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 sociology.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Lesley Dornan, a maternal health researcher at Ulster University, UK. She is leading Birth Across The Borders, a research project that aims to improve maternal health in Myanmar through the power of education.

• This resource also contains an interview with Lesley and her in-country partner, Peach, and offers an insight into careers in maternal health. If your students have questions for Lesley or Peach, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Lesley or Peach will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Lesley and Peach’s work and challenges them to imagine the journey a pregnant woman in Myanmar must take to reach professional medical help, and how Birth Across The Borders could help her.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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