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Are Collectivism and Individualism Opposites?

Create a visual representation that accurately illustrates the relationships among individualism, collectivism and the common good.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-1

Specific Outcome 1.1 - Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding identity and ideology (PADM, TCC, I)
Specific Outcome 1.2 - Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding the relationship between individualism and common good (PADM, C, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.3 - Students will explore factors that may influence individual and collective beliefs and values (culture, language, media, relationship to land, environment, gender, religion, spirituality, ideology) (I, C, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.4 - Students will examine historic and contemporary expressions of individualism and collectivism (I, C, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.7 - Students will analyze individualism as a foundation of ideology (principles of liberalism: individual rights and freedoms, self-interest, competition, economic freedom, rule of law, private property) (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 1.8 - Students will analyze collectivism as a foundation of ideology (principles of collectivism: collective responsibility, collective interest, cooperation, economic equality, adherence to collective norms, public property) (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 1.9 - Students will analyze the dynamic between individualism and common good in contemporary societies (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome S.1.1 - Students will evaluate ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.6 - Students will synthesize information from contemporary and historical issues to develop an informed position
Specific Outcome S.1.7 - Students will evaluate the logic of assumptions underlying a position
Specific Outcome S.3.6 - Students will assess how human interaction impacts geopolitical realities
Specific Outcome S.5.5 - Students will respect the needs and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.7.1 - Students will develop, express and defend an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.3 - Students will draw pertinent conclusions based on evidence derived from research
Specific Outcome S.7.8 - Students will select and analyze relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.8.1 - Students will communicate effectively to express a point of view in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.3 - Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-2

Specific Outcome 1.1 - Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding identity and ideology (PADM, ER, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.2 - Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding the relationship between individualism and common good (PADM, C, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.3 - Students will explore factors that may influence individual and collective beliefs and values (culture, language, media, relationship to land, environment, gender, religion, spirituality, ideology) (I, C, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.4 - Students will identify historic and contemporary expressions of individualism and collectivism (I, C, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.7 - Students will examine individualism as a key value of ideology (values of liberalism: individual rights and freedoms, self-interest, competition, economic freedom, rule of law, private property) (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 1.8 - Students will examine collectivism as a foundation of ideology (values of collectivism: collective responsibility, collective interest, cooperation, economic equality, adherence to collective norms, public property) (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 1.9 - Students will examine the relationship between individualism and common good in contemporary societies (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome S.1.1 - Students will analyze ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.6 - Students will determine the strengths and weaknesses of arguments
Specific Outcome S.1.9 - Students will identify main ideas underlying a position or issue
Specific Outcome S.5.4 - Students will consider the points of view and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.7.1 - Students will develop and express an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.6 - Students will select relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.8.1 - Students will communicate effectively in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.3 - Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.8.4 - Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints on an issue
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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