Guiding+Question+and+Project+Aims

// **Aim:** To help students become "detectives" to explore the possibility that their perspective on a historical event, crisis, figure, war or time period based on what they are taught in school may be the same or different from other students' perspective depending upon where they live. //
 * //What have students in our school learned about a particular historical event, crisis, figure, war, or time period?//
 * //What have students in other countries around the world learned about the same event, crisis, figure, war or time period - if they have "covered it" at all?//
 * //Why might an event, crisis, figure, war or time period that is very significant to one country not be taught by a school in another country?//
 * //Why might different countries have different perspectives on the same topic?//
 * //What are the// //implications and// //repercussions for students and the world if perspectives on the same historical topic are taught, learned or understood differently in different countries?//
 * //How can learning about "other perspectives" on historical events, crises, figures, wars and time periods help flatten classrooms, break through stereotypes and enhance compassion, empathy and global sensitivity?//
 * //How does a school's local curriculum reflect the needs of the country and what does that say about nationalism and cultural identity?//