Social Studies 30-1
Key Issue: To what extent should we embrace an ideology?
Related Issue 3
To what extent are the principles of liberalism viable?
General Outcome
Students will assess the extent to which the principles of liberalism are viable in a contemporary world.
Specific Outcomes
~Values and Attitudes
Students will:
3.1 appreciate various perspectives regarding the viability of the principles of liberalism (PADM, ER)
3.2 appreciate various perspectives regarding the promotion of liberalism within political and economic systems (PADM, ER, C)
~Knowledge and Understanding
Students will:
3.3 explore the extent to which governments should reflect the will of the people (PADM, C)
3.4 explore the extent to which governments should encourage economic equality (PADM, ER, C)
3.5 analyze the extent to which the practices of political and economic systems reflect principles of liberalism (consensus decision making, direct and representative democracies, authoritarian political systems, traditional economies, free market economies, command economies, mixed
economies) (PADM, ER, C)
3.6 analyze the extent to which liberal democracies reflect illiberal thought and practice (Canada, contemporary examples) (PADM, ER)
3.7 analyze why the practices of governments may not reflect principles of liberalism (PADM, ER, C)
3.8 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)
3.9 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)
Key Issue: To what extent should we embrace an ideology?
Related Issue 3
To what extent are the principles of liberalism viable?
General Outcome
Students will assess the extent to which the principles of liberalism are viable in a contemporary world.
Specific Outcomes
~Values and Attitudes
Students will:
3.1 appreciate various perspectives regarding the viability of the principles of liberalism (PADM, ER)
3.2 appreciate various perspectives regarding the promotion of liberalism within political and economic systems (PADM, ER, C)
~Knowledge and Understanding
Students will:
3.3 explore the extent to which governments should reflect the will of the people (PADM, C)
3.4 explore the extent to which governments should encourage economic equality (PADM, ER, C)
3.5 analyze the extent to which the practices of political and economic systems reflect principles of liberalism (consensus decision making, direct and representative democracies, authoritarian political systems, traditional economies, free market economies, command economies, mixed
economies) (PADM, ER, C)
3.6 analyze the extent to which liberal democracies reflect illiberal thought and practice (Canada, contemporary examples) (PADM, ER)
3.7 analyze why the practices of governments may not reflect principles of liberalism (PADM, ER, C)
3.8 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)
3.9 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)