Social 20-2
Unit #1 Should Nation be the Foundation for Identity?Related Issue 1
Should nation be the foundation of identity?
General Outcome
Students will explore the relationships among identity, nation and nationalism.
Specific Outcomes
Values and Attitudes
Students will:
1.1 appreciate that understandings of identity, nation and nationalism continue to evolve
1.2 appreciate the existence of alternative views on the meaning of nation
1.3 appreciate how the forces of nationalism have shaped, and continue to shape, Canada and the world
1.4 appreciate why peoples seek to promote their identity through nationalism
Knowledge and Understanding
Students will:
1.5 explore a range of expressions of nationalism
1.6 develop understandings of nation and nationalism (relationship to land, geographic, collective,
civic, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, political, spiritual, religious, patriotic)
1.7 examine the relationship between nation and nation-state
1.8 examine how the development of nationalism is shaped by historical, geographic, political,
economic and social factors (French Revolution, contemporary examples)
1.9 examine nationalism as an identity, internalized feeling and/or collective consciousness shared by a
people (French Revolution, Canadian nationalism, Québécois nationalism, First Nations and Métis
nationalism, Inuit perspectives)
1.10 analyze the importance of reconciling contending nationalist loyalties (Canadian nationalism, First
Nations and Métis nationalism, ethnic nationalism in Canada, Québécois nationalism, Inuit
perspectives on nationalism)
1.11 analyze the importance of reconciling nationalism with contending non-nationalist loyalties
(religion, region, culture, race, ideology, class, other contending loyalties)

where is the textbook?
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