c/c_Social Studies_Grade 6_La pauvreté et les inégalités dans le monde, y compris les disparités entre les classes sociales et entre les hommes et les femmes

Subject
Social Studies
Grade
Grade 6
Concept/Content
global poverty and inequality issues, including class structure and gender
Elaboration
  • Sample topics:
    • treatment of minority populations in Canada and in other cultures and societies you have studied (e.g., segregation, assimilation, integration, and pluralism; multiculturalism policies; settlement patterns; residential schools, South African Apartheid, the Holocaust, internment of Japanese-Canadians, Head Tax on Chinese immigrants; caste and class systems)
    • caste system
    • unequal distribution of wealth
    • corruption
    • lack of judicial process
    • infant mortality
    • women’s rights
    • social justice
    • treatment of indigenous people
  • Key questions:
    • How does discrimination and prejudice in modern Canadian society compare with that during other periods in Canada’s past or in other societies (e.g., systemic discrimination, overt racism)?
keywords
global poverty and inequality issues, including class structure and gender