Critical Challenge: Balancing Individual and Collective Rights

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-1

Specific Outcome 3.1	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding the viability of the principles of liberalism (PADM, ER)
Specific Outcome 3.2	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding the promotion of liberalism within political and economic systems (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 3.3	-	Students will explore the extent to which governments should reflect the will of the people (PADM, C)
Specific Outcome 3.8	-	Students will evaluate the extent to which governments should promote individual and collective rights (American Bill of Rights; Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms; First Nations, Métis and Inuit rights; language legislation; emergencies and security legislation) (PADM, C, CC)
Specific Outcome 3.9	-	Students will evaluate the extent to which the principles of liberalism are viable in the context of contemporary issues (environment concerns, resource use and development, debt and poverty, racism, pandemics, terrorism, censorship, illiberalism) (PADM, ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will evaluate ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.2	-	Students will determine relationships among multiple and varied sources of information
Specific Outcome S.1.3	-	Students will assess the validity of information based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence or reliability
Specific Outcome S.1.4	-	Students will predict likely outcomes based on factual information
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.1.7	-	Students will evaluate the logic of assumptions underlying a position
Specific Outcome S.1.9	-	Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership in groups to achieve consensus, solve problems, formulate positions and take action, if appropriate, on important issues
Specific Outcome S.5.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership by initiating and employing various strategies to resolve conflicts peacefully and equitably
Specific Outcome S.5.2	-	Students will participate in persuading, compromising and negotiating to resolve conflicts and differences
Specific Outcome S.5.5	-	Students will respect the needs and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will collaborate in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership by engaging in actions that enhance personal and community well being
Specific Outcome S.6.2	-	Students will acknowledge the importance of multiple perspectives in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop, express and defend an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.2	-	Students will reflect on changes of perspective or opinion based on information gathered and research conducted
Specific Outcome S.7.3	-	Students will draw pertinent conclusions based on evidence derived from research
Specific Outcome S.7.4	-	Students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of research tools and strategies to investigate issues
Specific Outcome S.7.5	-	Students will consult a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, that reflect varied viewpoints on particular issues
Specific Outcome S.7.6	-	Students will integrate and synthesize argumentation and evidence to provide an informed opinion on a research question or an issue of inquiry
Specific Outcome S.8.1	-	Students will communicate effectively to express a point of view in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will use skills of formal and informal discussion and/or debate to persuasively express informed viewpoints on an issue
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints
Specific Outcome S.8.4	-	Students will listen respectfully to others

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-2

Specific Outcome 3.1	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding the viability of the values of liberalism (PADM, ER)
Specific Outcome 3.2	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding the promotion of liberalism within political and economic systems (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 3.3	-	Students will explore the extent to which governments should reflect the will of the people (PADM, C)
Specific Outcome 3.7	-	Students will explore the extent to which governments should promote individual and collective rights (Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms; First Nations, Métis and Inuit rights; emergencies and security legislation) (PADM, C, CC)
Specific Outcome 3.8	-	Students will evaluate the extent to which the values of liberalism are viable in the context of contemporary issues (environment concerns, resource use and development, debt and poverty, racism, pandemics, terrorism, censorship) (PADM, ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will analyze ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.2	-	Students will determine relationships among multiple sources of information
Specific Outcome S.1.3	-	Students will determine the validity of information based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence or reliability
Specific Outcome S.1.4	-	Students will suggest likely outcomes based on factual information
Specific Outcome S.1.5	-	Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions
Specific Outcome S.1.6	-	Students will determine the strengths and weaknesses of arguments
Specific Outcome S.1.8	-	Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate skills needed to reach consensus, solve problems and formulate positions
Specific Outcome S.5.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership by persuading, compromising and negotiating to resolve conflicts and differences
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.5.5	-	Students will identify and use a variety of strategies to resolve conflicts peacefully and equitably
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will demonstrate cooperativeness in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership by engaging in actions that will enhance the well-being of self and others in the community
Specific Outcome S.6.2	-	Students will promote and respect the contributions of team members when working as a team
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop and express an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.2	-	Students will develop conclusions based on evidence gathered through research of a wide variety of sources
Specific Outcome S.7.3	-	Students will use research tools and methods to investigate issues
Specific Outcome S.7.4	-	Students will consult a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, that reflect varied viewpoints on particular issues
Specific Outcome S.7.5	-	Students will revise questions on an issue as new information becomes available
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.8.2	-	Students will engage in respectful discussion
Specific Outcome S.8.4	-	Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints on an issue
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