Critical Challenge: Transnational Corporations and the Interests of the Country

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 10-1

Specific Outcome 3.1	-	Students will recognize and appreciate multiple perspectives that exist with respect to the relationships among politics, economics, the environment and globalization (GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.2	-	Students will recognize and appreciate impacts of globalization on the interdependent relationships that exist among people, the economy and the environment (GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.5	-	Students will analyze factors contributing to the expansion of globalization since the Second World War (international agreements, international organizations, transnational corporations, media and transportation technologies) (TCC, GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.9	-	Students will analyze multiple perspectives on sustainability and prosperity in a globalizing world (ER, LPP, GC)
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.2.3	-	Students will analyze 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.2.8	-	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.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.4.3	-	Students will generate and apply new ideas and strategies to contribute to decision making and problem solving
Specific Outcome S.5.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership by initiating and employing various strategies to resolve conflicts peacefully and equitably
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.5.4	-	Students will demonstrate leadership during discussions and group work
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.8.2	-	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, written and visual sources to present informed positions on issues

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 10-2

Specific Outcome 3.1	-	Students will recognize and appreciate multiple perspectives that exist with respect to the relationships among economics, politics, the environment and globalization (GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.2	-	Students will recognize and appreciate impacts of globalization on the interdependent relationships that exist among the economy, people and the environment (GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome 3.5	-	Students will identify factors contributing to the expansion of globalization since the Second World War (international agreements, international organizations, media and transportation technologies, transnational corporations)
Specific Outcome 3.9	-	Students will examine multiple perspectives on sustainability and prosperity in a globalizing world (TCC, GC, ER, PADM)
Specific Outcome S.1.5	-	Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions (ER, LPP, CC)
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.1.9	-	Students will identify main ideas underlying a position or issue
Specific Outcome S.2.3	-	Students will compare and contrast historical narratives
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.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate skills needed to reach consensus, solve problems and formulate positions
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.5.3	-	Students will identify behaviours and attitudes that contribute, or pose obstacles, to cross-cultural understanding
Specific Outcome S.5.4	-	Students will consider the needs 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.7.2	-	Students will develop conclusions based upon evidence gathered through research of a wide variety of sources
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will engage in respectful discussion
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will use a variety of oral, written and visual 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

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