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INTRODUCTION
THE VISION AND GOALS OF THE CANADIAN AND WORLD STUDIES CURRICULUM
The Grade 9 to 12 Canadian and world studies curriculum shares a common vision with the Grade 1 to 8 social studies, history, and geography curriculum. That vision and the goals of the elementary and secondary program are as follows:
Vision and Goals for Social Studies, Grades 1 to 6; History and Geography, Grades 7 and 8; and Canadian and World Studies, Grades 9 to 12
Vision
The social studies, history, geography, and Canadian and world studies programs will enable students to become responsible, active citizens within the diverse communities to which they belong . As well as becoming critically thoughtful and informed citizens who value an inclusive society, students will have the skills they need to solve problems and communicate ideas and decisions about significant developments, events, and issues .
Goals
In social studies, history, and geography, and all the subjects in Canadian and world studies, students realize the vision for the program as they:
• develop the ability to use the “concepts of disciplinary thinking” to investigate issues, events, and developments;
• develop the ability to determine and apply appropriate criteria to evaluate information and evidence and to make judgements;
• develop skills and personal attributes that are needed for discipline-specific inquiry and that can be transferred to other areas in life;
• build collaborative and cooperative working relationships;
• use appropriate technology as a tool to help them gather and analyse information, solve problems, and communicate .
The chart on the next page outlines how students will achieve the goals in the individual subjects of the Grade 9 and 10 Canadian and world studies curriculum – geography, history, and politics (civics)4 – and how these subjects will prepare them to realize the vision of the program.
4. The goals for history and geography in the secondary Canadian and world studies curriculum are the same as those for history and geography in the elementary social studies, history, and geography curriculum. The goals for the subjects of economics and law, which are part of the Grade 11 and 12 Canadian and world studies curriculum, as well as for social studies in the elementary curriculum, can be found in Appendix A on page 167.
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