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Promoting or Challenging a Canadian Identity

To what extent does the assigned factor challenge or support a Canadian national identity?


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 20-1

Specific Outcome 4.1 - Students will appreciate historical and contemporary attempts to develop a national identity (I, TCC, C)
Specific Outcome 4.3 - Students will respect the views of others on alternative visions of national identity (I, C)
Specific Outcome 4.4 - Students will explore multiple perspectives on national identity in Canada (I, C, LPP)
Specific Outcome 4.7 - Students will evaluate the challenges and opportunities associated with the promotion of Canadian national unity (Québec sovereignty, federal–provincial–territorial relations, Aboriginal self-determination and land claims, bilingualism, multiculturalism) (I, C, CC)
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.5.3 - Students will interpret patterns of behaviour and attitudes that contribute or pose obstacles to cross-cultural understanding
Specific Outcome S.5.5 - Students will respect the points of view and perspectives of others
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.7.3 - Students will draw pertinent conclusions based on evidence derived from research
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: 20-2

Specific Outcome 4.1 - Students will appreciate historical and contemporary attempts to develop a national identity (I, TCC, C)
Specific Outcome 4.3 - Students will respect the views of others on alternative visions of national identity (I, C)
Specific Outcome 4.4 - Students will explore multiple perspectives on national identity in Canada (I, C, LPP)
Specific Outcome 4.7 - Students will explore the challenges and opportunities associated with the promotion of Canadian national unity (Québec sovereignty, federal–provincial–territorial relations, Aboriginal self-determination and land claims, bilingualism, multiculturalism) (I, C, CC)
Specific Outcome S.1.5 - Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions
Specific Outcome S.5.2 - Students will make meaningful contributions to discussion and group work
Specific Outcome S.5.3 - Students will identify behaviours and attitudes that contribute or pose obstacles to cross-cultural understanding
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.7.2 - Students will develop conclusions based on evidence gathered through research of a wide variety of sources
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
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