Otaniemi Upper Secondary School – Sustainable Future Project
Course code, full name, and status (C/EC/OP)
ET2 Me and Society (C)
Topic
Active citizenship
Duration
Objectives (directly from the National Core Curriculum):
The objective of the module is that the student
- The objective of the module is that the students
- understand the significance of communality for humanity and their identity
- understand that social phenomena and structures of society can be examined scientifically and that they have great importance for an individual’s worldview and life choices
- are able to evaluate critically their own and other people’s arguments and views concerning society
- are able to interpret and evaluate the information offered by different media and other institutions of society
- are able to examine critically society and its areas, structures, ideological traits, and the prevailing societal values
- understand and are able to justify the principles of human rights, freedom of religion and conscience, equity, democracy, peace, social and global justice as well as the principles of building a sustainable future
- are able to structure their personal status as individuals in communities, citizens in a state, and actors in the economic system
- are able to evaluate an individual’s possibilities of exerting influence and develop their capabilities for constructive and responsible involvement in society.
Content (directly from the National Core Curriculum)
- Critical thinking and justifying arguments rationally: structuring the reality surrounding the students and its different distortions
- the operating logic of the media and other sources of information; the impact of school, politics, science, art, the entertainment industry as well as cultural communities, including religious ones, on perceptions of the world and worldviews as well as the students’ personal worldview
- contemporary criticism: ideas and values of society and different sub-cultures
- knowledge base of societal agency and active citizenship: structures of society, social facts, special features of modern Western society including individualism, and the difference between a community and a society; the impacts of these elements on an individual’s life
- economic and political power in Finland and the global market economy, the impacts of choices made by individuals as consumers and citizens
- the value of a human being, human dignity, and human rights; human rights documents, including the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child, and European Convention on Human Rights; human rights violations, including the Holocaust
- global justice, sustainable future, climate change mitigation as well as the UN’s Sustainable Development goals and Agenda 2030