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Nationalism and Personal Identity

Assess the significance of state, national and non-national factors in defining your personal identity.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 20-1

Specific Outcome 1.1 - Students will appreciate that understandings of identity, nation and nationalism continue to evolve (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.2 - Students will appreciate the existence of alternative views on the meaning of nation (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.4 - Students will appreciate why peoples seek to promote their identity through nationalism (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.5 - Students will explore a range of expressions of nationalism (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.6 - Students will develop understandings of nation and nationalism (relationship to land, geographic, collective, civic, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, political, spiritual, religious, patriotic) (I, CC, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.7 - Students will analyze the relationship between nation and nation-state (TCC, PADM, C)
Specific Outcome 1.11 - Students will evaluate the importance of reconciling nationalism with contending non-nationalist loyalties (religion, region, culture, race, ideology, class, other contending loyalties) (I, C, CC, LPP)  
Specific Outcome S.1.5 - Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions to develop an expanded appreciation of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome S.1.9 - Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.5.5 - Students will respect the points of view and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.6.2 - Students will acknowledge the importance of multiple perspectives in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.1 - Students will communicate effectively to express a point of view in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.4 - Students will listen respectfully to others

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 20-2

Specific Outcome 1.1 - Students will appreciate that understandings of identity, nation and nationalism continue to evolve (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.2 - Students will appreciate the existence of alternative views on the meaning of nation (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.4 - Students will appreciate why peoples seek to promote their identity through nationalism (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.5 - Students will explore a range of expressions of nationalism (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.6 - Students will develop understandings of nation and nationalism (relationship to land, geographic, collective, civic, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, political, spiritual, religious, patriotic) (I, CC, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.7 - Students will examine the relationship between nation and nation-state (TCC, PADM, C)
Specific Outcome 1.11 - Students will analyze the importance of reconciling nationalism with contending non-nationalist loyalties (religion, region, culture, race, ideology, class, other contending loyalties) (I, C, CC, LPP)
Specific Outcome S.1.5 - Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions
Specific Outcome S.1.8 - Students will analyze current affairs from a  variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.5.2 - Students will make meaningful contributions to discussion and group work
Specific Outcome S.5.4 - Students will consider the points of view and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.8.1 - Students will communicate effectively in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2 - Students will engage in respectful discussion
Specific Outcome S.8.5 - Students will make respectful and reasoned comments on the topic of discussion
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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