Why are the activities, assignments, and projects so centred on exploring issues?
The B.C. social studies curriculum focuses on developing thoughtful, responsible, active citizens, and the ability to meet critical challenges is at the heart of citizenship skills. Our goal is to enable students to build up those skills and apply them to issues while they are doing the course, rather than to just hope that some sort of skill transfer will occur after they finish the course. It’s a demanding goal, and staying “centred” is a key to accomplishing it.
