Philosophical Foundations |
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Overall Expectations Philosophical Reasoning: demonstrate an understanding of philosophical reasoning and critical thinking skills, including skills required to identify and avoid common fallacies of reasoning, and demonstrate the ability to apply these skills in various contexts. Specific Expectations Students will:
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Core topics: Ethics |
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Overall Expectations Understanding Ethics: demonstrate an understanding of the main questions in ethics, and of the positions of major philosophers and schools of philosophy with respect to some of these questions; Making Connections to Ethics: demonstrate an understanding of connections between ethics and other areas of philosophy, other subject areas, and various aspects of society, including everyday life; Philosophical Reasoning in Ethics: use philosophical reasoning skills to develop, communicate, and defend their own responses to philosophical questions in ethics. Specific Expectations
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Lessons that meet Grade 12 expectations Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising Violence on Film: The Ratings Game Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource) |
Research and Inquiry Skills |
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Overall Expectations Investigating: create research plans, and locate and select information relevant to their chosen topics, using appropriate social science research and inquiry methods Processing Information: assess, record, analyse, and synthesize information gathered through research and inquiry Communicating and Reflecting: communicate the results of their research and inquiry clearly and effectively, and reflect on and evaluate their research, inquiry, and communication skills. explore a variety of topics related to philosophy (e.g., the relationship between body and mind; the existence of an afterlife; the nature of a just society; the basis for moral behaviour; the nature and reliability of perception; the relationship between science and metaphysics; the nature of human rights; the relationship of humankind to other animals and the environment; the relationship between religious and secular authority in politics; the function of art) to identify topics for research and inquiry identify key concepts (e.g., through discussion, brainstorming, use of visual organizers) related to their selected topics formulate effective questions to guide their research and inquiry create appropriate research plans to investigate their selected topics (e.g., outline purpose and method; identify sources of information), ensuring that their plans follow guidelines for ethical research locate and select information relevant to their investigations from a variety of primary sources based on preliminary research, for each investigation formulate a hypothesis, thesis statement, or research question, and use it to focus their research assess various aspects of information gathered from primary and secondary sources (e.g., accuracy, relevance, reliability, inherent values and bias, voice) analyse and interpret research information synthesize findings and formulate conclusions demonstrate academic honesty by documenting the sources of all information generated through research demonstrate an understanding of the general research process by reflecting on and evaluating their own research, inquiry, and communication skills |
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