Exploring shoes around the world

This activity asks learners to consider a variety of shoes from across the world. It aims to develop learners’ understanding of how culture and geography affect design and purpose. Shoes look different around the world depending on culture and geography. In this way, they become part of our identity and allow us to express ourselves as individual people and as a collective culture.

This is the second activity in a series of resources designed around shoes. See the others below:

• Examining shoes using slow looking
• Branding and shoe design
• Designing shoes for the environment
• Shoe poverty at home and abroad

SHAPE is a collective name for social sciences, humanities and the arts. SHAPE subjects play a vital role within our communities and in shaping our lives – past, present and future. SHAPE skills give us the tools to enact change and allow us to better understand the world by providing a myriad of ways to express, analyse and interpret our global world and human experiences.

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