Critical Challenge: Exploring Understandings of Liberalism

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-1

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 2.1	-	Students will appreciate Aboriginal contributions to the development of ideologies (C, LPP, PADM)
Specific Outcome 2.3	-	Students will appreciate that individuals and groups may adhere to various ideologies (I, C, PADM)
Specific Outcome 2.4	-	Students will explore Aboriginal contributions to the development of liberalism (PADM, ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 2.5	-	Students will examine the relationship between the principles of liberalism and the origins of classical liberal thought (John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill) (PADM, ER, TCC)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will evaluate ideas and information from multiple sources
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.1.6	-	Students will synthesize information from contemporary and historical issues to develop an informed position
Specific Outcome S.1.8	-	Students will assemble seemingly unrelated information to support an idea or to explain an event
Specific Outcome S.2.3	-	Students will compare similarities and differences among historical narratives
Specific Outcome S.2.5	-	Students will discern historical facts from historical interpretations through an examination of multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.2.6	-	Students will identify reasons underlying similarities and differences among historical narratives
Specific Outcome S.2.7	-	Students will develop a reasoned position that is informed by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.2.9	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world
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.4.2	-	Students will develop inquiry strategies to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.4.3	-	Students will generate and apply new ideas and strategies to contribute to decision making and problem solving
Specific Outcome S.5.2	-	Students will participate in persuading, compromising and negotiating to resolve conflicts and differences
Specific Outcome S.5.4	-	Students will demonstrate leadership during discussions and group work
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will collaborate in groups to solve problems
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.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.8.2	-	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
Specific Outcome S.8.8	-	Students will compose, revise and edit text
Specific Outcome S.8.9	-	Students will apply general principles of graphic layout and design to a document in process

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-2

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 2.1	-	Students will appreciate Aboriginal contributions to the development of ideologies (C, LPP, PADM)
Specific Outcome 2.3	-	Students will appreciate that individuals and groups may adhere to various ideologies (I, C, PADM)
Specific Outcome 2.4	-	Students will explore Aboriginal contributions to the development of liberalism (PADM, ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 2.5	-	Students will explore the relationship between the values of liberalism and the origins of liberal thought (Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill) (PADM, ER, TCC)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will analyze ideas and information from multiple sources
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.1.7	-	Students will identify seemingly unrelated ideas to explain a concept or event
Specific Outcome S.2.6	-	Students will compare alternative historical narratives
Specific Outcome S.2.7	-	Students will develop reasoned arguments supported by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.2.9	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate skills needed to reach consensus, solve problems and formulate positions
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will use inquiry processes to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.4.3	-	Students will apply ideas and strategies to contribute to decision making and problem solving
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.5.6	-	Students will demonstrate cooperativeness in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.2	-	Students will promote and respect the contributions of team members when working as a team
Specific Outcome S.6.3	-	Students will cooperate with others for the well-being of the community
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop and express an informed position on an issue
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.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