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Global Media and Identity

To what extent does global advertising support cultural diversity or homogenization?


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 10-1

Specific Outcome 1.2 - Students will appreciate why peoples in Canada and other locations strive to promote their cultures, languages and identities in a globalizing world (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.3 - Students will appreciate how identities and cultures shape, and are shaped by globalization (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.5 - Students will explore understandings and dimensions of globalization (political, economic, social, other contemporary examples) (PADM, ER, CC)
Specific Outcome 1.6 - Students will examine the impact of communications technology and media on diversity (universalization of pop culture, hybridization, diversification) (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.7 - Students will analyze opportunities presented by globalization to identities and cultures (acculturation, accommodation, cultural revitalization, affirmation of identity, integration) (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.8 - Students will analyze challenges presented by globalization to identities and cultures (assimilation, marginalization, accommodation, integration, homogenization) (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.9 - Students will evaluate efforts to promote languages and cultures in a globalizing world (language laws, linguistic rights, cultural content legislation, cultural revitalization, linguistic revitalization) (I, CC)
Specific Outcome S.1.1 - Students will evaluate ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.8 - Students will assemble seemingly unrelated information to support an idea or to explain an event
Specific Outcome S.1.9 - Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.2.7 - Students will develop a reasoned position that is informed by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.7.4 - Students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of research tools and strategies to investigate issues
Specific Outcome S.7.7 - Students will develop, refine and apply questions to address an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.8 - Students will select and analyze relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.8.5 - Students will use a variety of oral, written and visual sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.9.5 - Students will demonstrate discriminatory selection of electronically accessed information that is relevant to a particular topic

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 10-2

Specific Outcome 1.2 - Students will appreciate why peoples in Canada and other locations strive to promote their cultures, languages and identities in a globalizing world (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.3 - Students will appreciate how identities and cultures shape, and are shaped by globalization (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.5 - Students will explore understandings and dimensions of globalization (political, economic, social, other contemporary examples) (PADM, ER, CC)
Specific Outcome 1.6 - Students will explore the impact of communications technology and media on diversity (universalization of pop culture, hybridization, diversification) (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.7 - Students will examine opportunities presented by globalization to identities and cultures of peoples in Canada (acculturation, accommodation, cultural revitalization, affirmation of identity, integration) (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.8 - Students will examine challenges presented by globalization to identities and cultures of peoples in Canada (assimilation, marginalization, accommodation, integration, homogenization) (I, CC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.9 - Students will analyze the efforts to promote languages and cultures in Canada in response to globalization (language and cultural legislation, revitalization of language and culture) (I, CC)
Specific Outcome S.1.1 - Students will analyze ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.7 - Students will identify seemingly unrelated ideas to explain a concept or event
Specific Outcome S.1.8 - Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.2.7 - Students will develop reasoned arguments supported by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.7.3 - Students will use research tools and methods to investigate issues
Specific Outcome S.7.6 - Students will select relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.8.3 - Students will use a variety of oral, written and visual sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.9.5 - Demonstrate discriminatory selection of electronically accessed information
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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