Critical Challenge: Balancing Individualism, Collectivism and the Common Good

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-1

Specific Outcome1.1	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding identity and ideology (PADM, TCC, I)
Specific Outcome 1.2	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding the relationship between individualism and common good (PADM, C, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.3	-	Students will explore factors that may influence individual and collective beliefs and values (culture, language, media, relationship to land, environment, gender, religion, spirituality, ideology) (I, C, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.4	-	Students will examine historic and contemporary expressions of individualism and collectivism (I, C, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.5	-	Students will examine the characteristics of ideology (interpretations of history, beliefs about human nature, beliefs about the structure of society, visions for the future) (TCC, PADM, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.7	-	Students will analyze individualism as a foundation of ideology (principles of liberalism: individual rights and freedoms, self-interest, competition, economic freedom, rule of law, private property) (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 1.8	-	Students will analyze collectivism as a foundation of ideology (principles of collectivism: collective responsibility, collective interest, cooperation, economic equality, adherence to collective norms, public property) (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 1.9	-	Students will analyze the dynamic between individualism and common good in contemporary societies (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will evaluate ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.4	-	Students will predict likely outcomes based on factual information
Specific Outcome S.1.6	-	Students will synthesize information from contemporary and historical issues to develop an informed position
Specific Outcome S.1.7	-	Students will evaluate the logic of assumptions underlying a position
Specific Outcome S.3.6	-	Students will assess how human interaction impacts geopolitical realities
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will develop inquiry strategies to make decisions and solve problems
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.5.5	-	Students will respect the needs and perspectives of others
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.7.6	-	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.7.8	-	Students will select and analyze relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.8.1	-	Students will communicate effectively to express a point of view in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints
Specific Outcome S.8.5	-	Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-2

Specific Outcome 1.1	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding identity and ideology (PADM, ER, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.2	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding the relationship between individualism and common good (PADM, C, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.3	-	Students will explore factors that may influence individual and collective beliefs and values (culture, language, media, relationship to land, environment, gender, religion, spirituality, ideology) (I, C, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.4	-	Students will identify historic and contemporary expressions of individualism and collectivism (I, C, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.5	-	Students will examine the characteristics of ideology (interpretations of history, beliefs about human nature, beliefs about the structure of society, visions for the future) (TCC, PADM, CC)
Specific Outcome 1.7	-	Students will examine individualism as a key value of ideology (values of liberalism: individual rights and freedoms, self-interest, competition, economic freedom, rule of law, private property) (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 1.8	-	Students will examine collectivism as a foundation of ideology (values of collectivism: collective responsibility, collective interest, cooperation, economic equality, adherence to collective norms, public property) (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome 1.9	-	Students will examine the relationship between individualism and common good in contemporary societies (PADM, ER, C)
Specific Outcome S.1.4	-	Students will suggest likely outcomes based on factual information
Specific Outcome S.1.9	-	Students will identify main ideas underlying a position or issue
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will use inquiry processes to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.4.3	-	Students will apply ideas and strategies to contribute to decision making and problem solving
Specific Outcome S.5.4	-	Students will consider the points of view and perspectives of others
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.7.5	-	Students will revise questions on an issue as new information becomes available
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.8.3	-	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

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