Critical Challenge: Is Liberalism Viable?

Specific Outcomes

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 3.4	-	Students will explore the extent to which governments should encourage economic equality (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 3.6	-	Students will analyze the extent to which liberal democracies reflect illiberal thought and practice (Canada, contemporary examples) (PADM, ER)
Specific Outcome 3.7	-	Students will analyze why the practices of governments may not reflect principles of liberalism (PADM, ER, C)
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.1.4	-	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.1.8	-	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.2.1	-	Students will analyze multiple historical and contemporary perspectives within and across cultures
Specific Outcome S.2.2	-	Students will analyze connections among patterns of historical change by identifying cause and effect relationships
Specific Outcome S.2.4	-	Students will evaluate the impact of significant historical periods and patterns of change on the contemporary world
Specific Outcome S.2.5	-	Students will discern historical facts from historical interpretations through an examination of multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.2.7	-	Students will develop a reasoned position that is informed by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.2.8	-	Students will demonstrate an understanding of how changes in technology can benefit or harm society—in the context of the present, the future and various historical time periods
Specific Outcome S.2.9	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world
Specific Outcome S.3.2	-	Students will make inferences and draw conclusions from maps and other geographical sources
Specific Outcome S.3.3	-	Students will locate, gather, interpret and organize information, using historical maps
Specific Outcome S.3.4	-	Students will develop and assess geographic representations to demonstrate the impact of factors of geography on world events
Specific Outcome S.3.5	-	Students will assess the impact of human activities on the land and the environment
Specific Outcome S.3.6	-	Students will assess how human interaction impacts geopolitical realities
Specific Outcome S.3.7	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world, including online atlases
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.5.2	-	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.5.5	-	Students will respect the needs and perspectives of others
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.7.6	-	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
Specific Outcome S.8.5	-	Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.9.2	-	Students will evaluate the validity of various points of view presented in the media
Specific Outcome S.9.3	-	Students will appraise information from multiple sources, evaluating each source in terms of the author's perspective or bias and use of evidence
Specific Outcome S.9.4	-	Students will analyze the impact of various forms of media, identifying complexities and discrepancies in the information and making distinctions between sound generalizations and misleading oversimplification
Specific Outcome S.9.5	-	Students will demonstrate discriminatory selection of electronically accessed information that is relevant to a particular topic

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 3.4	-	Students will explore the extent to which governments should encourage economic equality (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 3.6	-	Students will examine why government practices may not reflect values of liberalism (Canada, contemporary examples) (PADM, ER)
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.1.4	-	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.1.7	-	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.2.1	-	Students will understand diverse historical and contemporary perspectives within and across cultures
Specific Outcome S.2.2	-	Students will analyze connections among patterns of historical change by identifying cause and effect relationships
Specific Outcome S.2.3	-	Students will compare and contrast historical narratives
Specific Outcome S.2.4	-	Students will identify and describe the impact of significant historical periods and patterns of change on society today
Specific Outcome S.2.7	-	Students will develop reasoned arguments supported by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.2.8	-	Students will describe how changes in technology can benefit or harm society
Specific Outcome S.2.9	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world
Specific Outcome S.3.2	-	Students will draw conclusions from maps and other geographic sources
Specific Outcome S.3.3	-	Students will locate, gather, interpret and organize information, using historical maps
Specific Outcome S.3.4	-	Students will assess the impact of human activities on the land and the environment
Specific Outcome S.3.5	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world, including online atlases
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.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.7.6	-	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.8.3	-	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
Specific Outcome S.8.5	-	Students will make respectful and reasoned comments on the topic of discussion
Specific Outcome S.9.2	-	Students will analyze the validity of various points of view in media messages
Specific Outcome S.9.3	-	Students will analyze information from multiple sources, evaluating each source in terms of the author's perspective or bias and use of evidence
Specific Outcome S.9.4	-	Students will analyze the impact of various forms of media
Specific Outcome S.9.5	-	Students will 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