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Respecting Voices

Identify the two most effective practices in various organizations that contribute to giving voice to people and helping people exercise their rights.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 6.1.6.2 - How do associations such as the Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta (ACFA), the Métis Nation of Alberta Association (MNAA) and the First Nations Authorities (FNA) provide their members with a voice, at local and provincial levels, exercising historical and constitutional rights? (C, I,  PADM)
Specific Outcome 6.S.1.2 - Students will critically evaluate ideas, information and positions
Specific Outcome 6.S.1.5 - Students will seek responses to inquiries from various authorities through electronic media
Specific Outcome 6.S.4.3 - Students will collaborate with others to devise strategies for dealing with problems and issues
Specific Outcome 6.S.5.1 - Students will demonstrate the skills of compromise to reach group consensus
Specific Outcome 6.S.5.2 - Students will work collaboratively with others to achieve a common goal
Specific Outcome 6.S.7.1 - Students will determine reliability of information filtering for point of view and bias
Specific Outcome 6.S.7.6 - Students will formulate new questions as research progresses
Specific Outcome 6.S.7.8 - Students will access and retrieve appropriate information from the Internet by  using a specific search path or from given uniform resource locators (URLs)
Specific Outcome 6.S.8.3 - Students will use skills of informal debate to persuasively express differing viewpoints regarding an issue
Specific Outcome 6.S.8.4 - Students will respond appropriately to comments and questions, using language respectful of human diversity
Specific Outcome 6.S.8.5 - Students will listen to others to understand their perspectives
Specific Outcome 6.S.8.6 - Students will organize information gathered from the Internet, or an electronic source, by selecting and recording the data in logical files or categories
Specific Outcome 6.S.8.7 - Students will communicate effectively through appropriate forms, such as speeches, reports and multimedia presentations, applying information technologies that serve particular audiences and purposes
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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