Social Studies 10-1

Key Issue: To what extent should we embrace globalization?

Related Issue: 1

To what extent should globalization shape identity?

General Outcome

Students will explore the impacts of globalization on their lives.

Specific Outcomes

Values and Attitudes

Students will:

1.1 acknowledge and appreciate the existence of multiple perspectives in a globalizing world

1.2 appreciate why peoples in Canada and other locations strive to promote their cultures, languages and identities in a globalizing world 

1.3 appreciate how identities and cultures shape, and are shaped by, globalization 

Knowledge and Understanding

Students will:

1.4 explore ways in which individuals and collectives express identities (traditions, language, religion, spirituality, the arts, attire, relationship to land, ideological beliefs, role modeling) 

1.5 explore understandings and dimensions of globalization (political, economic, social, other contemporary examples) 

1.6 examine the impact of communications technology and media on diversity (universalization of pop culture, hybridization, diversification) 

1.7 analyze opportunities presented by globalization to identities and cultures (acculturation, accommodation, cultural revitalization, affirmation of identity, integration) 

1.8 analyze challenges presented by globalization to identities and cultures (assimilation,

marginalization, accommodation, integration, homogenization) 

1.9 evaluate efforts to promote languages and cultures in a globalizing world (language laws, linguistic rights, cultural content legislation, cultural revitalization, linguistic revitalization)