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Citizenship Stream
Promoting informed, ethical, and intentional participation in communities, from the local to the global.
Workshops in the citizenship stream focus on the following skill areas:
Interactions between communities
Students will be able to:
- Describe their rights and responsibilities within the context of civil society.
- Recognize and describe intracultural and intercultural interactions.
- Be aware of how their own individual values shape their interactions with others.
- Describe how multiple perspectives enrich intracultural and intercultural interactions.
- Manage their online presence and interactions responsibly.
Power structures
Students will be able to:
- Recognize and describe privilege, power, equity, and social justice within various power structures.
- Recognize the existence of different power structures and how they interact.
- Recognize and describe their own place within structures and their contribution to those structures.
- Recognize how power structures might marginalize individuals/groups.
Community contributions
Students will be able to:
- Identify, reflect on, and evaluate the short-term and long-term effects of their actions within communities.
- Identify, reflect on, and evaluate the range of personal values and perspectives that guide citizen thinking and actions.
- Recognize the potential needs of different communities.
- Identify ways to make respectful, appropriate, and sustainable contributions to communities.
- Demonstrate ability and commitment to collaboratively work across and within communities to achieve a civic aim.
Discussion and debate
Students will be able to:
- Evaluate various methods of reasoning and logic, including the recognition of common logical fallacies.
- Evaluate quality of evidence, arguments, and information.
- Formulate and organize sound arguments using effective persuasive strategies.
- Critically evaluate and respond to counterarguments, rebuttals and refutations.
- Develop their ability to argue for what they believe in, including confronting oppositional viewpoints.
Sustainability
Students will be able to:
- Define concepts of sustainability (e.g., environmental, social, and economic).
- Evaluate the local and broader consequences of individual and collective actions.
- Take informed and responsible action to address ethical, social, and environmental challenges in local and/or global systems.
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