1. What's the Role of Government? You and Your Political Perspective
Sacramento 2017
What's the Role of Government?
You and Your Political Perspective
Christina Goodman
Northridge Academy High School, LAUSD
USC CALIS Teacher Associate
Jennifer Osorio
Banning High School, LAUSD
Teresa Hudock
USC CALIS Director
School of International Relations
Democracy is the means to manage our differences – place this in other ppt
This CCSS session is sponsored by the Arsalyn Program

2. What are the tools students need to think critically?
A classroom is a construction site where students need tools to build their knowledge and skills.
What are the tools students need
to think critically?
What tools help build independent critical thinkers?
Analytical Tools

3. the policy option continuum
Analytical Tool
the policy option continuum

4. the policy option continuum
Analytical Tool
the policy option continuum

5. the policy option continuum
Analytical Tool
the policy option continuum

6. the policy option continuum equally important competing values
Analytical Tool
the policy option continuum
Where does American political culture strike the balance
political culture
between equally important competing values?
equally important competing values
conservative
liberal
What’s the role of government?
18th Amendment, 1920—1933: Temperance movement was a conservative movement that wanted the government to enforce conservative values to ban alcohol…
role of government
role of government

7. Analytical Tool Four Worlds – 4W analysis of integrated factors
Political World
Economic World
Social World
Cultural World
▪ type of government
▪ legal system
▪ military
▪ means of production
▪ types of labor & work
▪ goods & services
establishes the rules of the game
how we make a living
rights
the market
▪ production
▪ distribution
role of government
political economy
structure
▪ social structure: class, status, position, roles
▪ civil society
▪ news, information, media
▪ education, literacy
▪ daily life: customs, traditions, practices
▪ beliefs, values
▪ the arts
Our values, beliefs and expectations are not monolithic… Majority rules in some cases; a very active or powerful minority in other cases
quality of life
political culture
ideology
how much we act on our values
Start here
activism
political will
values, beliefs, expectations

8. Four Conditions – frame for political economy
Analytical Tool
Four Conditions – frame for political economy
When market conditions are not met, inefficiency causes ‘perverse’ results.

9. Four Conditions – frame for political economy
Analytical Tool
Four Conditions – frame for political economy
How much government intervention is needed to realize the market’s potential to create social well-being?
Referring back the policy continuum, it is not simply whether or not to have regulations but to determine the level of restrictions… or penalties, incentives
In case teaching, students are given analytical tools that enable them to unpack concepts and details within the context of competing priorities and conflicting interests.

10. NYT: Donald Trump Should Know: This Is What Climate Change Costs Us
4W analysis
NYT: Donald Trump Should Know: This Is What Climate Change Costs Us
Jennifer Osorio, Banning High School, LAUSD – Four Worlds (4W) analysis by students of NYT case reading on the social cost of carbon

11. the policy option continuum
Analytical Tool
the policy option continuum
Always remembering that labels can be confusing and inconsistent…
How can political perspectives be flipped with regard to policy preferences?
conservative
liberal
Example on next page…
liberal
conservative
18th Amendment, 1920—1933: Temperance movement was a conservative movement that wanted the government to enforce conservative values to ban alcohol…
role of government
role of government

12. Analytical Tool Four Worlds – 4W analysis of integrated factors
Political World
Economic World
Social World
Cultural World
▪ type of government
▪ legal system
▪ military
▪ means of production
▪ types of labor & work
▪ goods & services
18th Amendment = “Prohibition”
ban alcohol
the market
▪ production
▪ distribution
▪ social structure: class, status, position, roles
▪ civil society
▪ news, information, media
▪ education, literacy
▪ daily life: customs, traditions, practices
▪ beliefs, values
▪ the arts
personal choice
Our values, beliefs and expectations are not monolithic… Majority rules in some cases; a very active or powerful minority in other cases
individual freedom
Temperance movement
political will
values, beliefs, expectations
vocal minority?
are not monolithic

13. DEPPP– DECIDE to trace the logic
Analytical Tool
DEPPP– DECIDE to trace the logic

14. DEPPP– DECIDE to trace the logic
Analytical Tool
DEPPP– DECIDE to trace the logic

15. Doing the right thing is based on…
Analytical Tool
three ethical principles
Doing the right thing is based on…
consequences
rules
virtues
Maximize the good
Follow the rules
Be a good person
cost-benefit analysis
rational actor
universal law
absolute obligation
good conduct
self-less
outcome-driven
duty-driven
character-driven
ends-based thinking
rules-based thinking
care-based thinking
As you make choices in your life, which principle do you rely on most often?
Regarding virtues -- Which of your own virtues guide (or determine) your decisions? 15

16. the equality continuum
Analytical Tool
the equality continuum

17. the equality continuum
Analytical Tool
the equality continuum

18. Thinking is all about engaging
To engage effectively in thinking about the human condition
students need structure and flexibility.
An analytical tool* provides…
a rigorous frame for CONCEPTS in CONTEXT
that outlines “a big picture” to support deeper reasoning
and specifies criteria for stronger use of evidence
yet is open-ended for divergent thinking
There is nothing passive about learning. The challenge is to engage effectively to manage information and make meaning.
An analytical tool* is a CONTENT-rich conceptual framework
that offers a systematic process for depth and balance
*As defined and developed by USC CALIS

19. Analytical Tools Academic rigor for independent critical thinking
An analytical tool* is a CONTENT-rich conceptual framework
that offers a systematic process for depth and balance
in productive deliberation of
competing values
competing perspectives
There is nothing passive about learning. The challenge is to engage effectively to manage information and make meaning.
competing principles
competing policy options
*As defined and developed by USC CALIS

20. Multiple Perspectives Skills
Can I summarize your ideas in a way that you would agree accurately represents your opinion?
Can you summarize my ideas in a way that I would agree accurately represents my opinion?
Can I summarize your argument in a way that you would agree accurately represents your position?
Can you summarize my argument in a way that I would agree accurately represents my position?

21. Thinking is all about engaging
To engage effectively in thinking about the human condition
students need structure and flexibility.
To enable students to build experience with the analytical process, teachers must be the pivotal change to prompt, guide and deepen students’ thinking using analytical tools.

22. What is the critical intersection of these two ideas?
In the spirit of sanity…
If we want students to become independent critical thinkers,
then teachers must be supported to be the change in instruction that engages students through rigorous tools for critical thinking

23. If you don’t understand opposing views, you don’t understand.
If you don’t respect opposing views, there is no peace.
 Teresa Hudock, Director, USC CALIS, 2007
For further resources, contact:
CALIS – Center for Active Learning in International Studies
USC School of International Relations / 23

24. What's the Role of Government? You and Your Political Perspective
Sacramento 2017
What's the Role of Government?
You and Your Political Perspective
As always, times are changing. Some are happy while others resist. What happens when policies become steamrollers that flatten the opposition? In a viable democracy (that respects minorities), students need analytical tools that enable them to trace the logic of conflicting perspectives and identify the merit of competing views.
Session Goals/Objectives
To demonstrate how students can apply analytical tools to policy cases in order to trace the logic of multiple perspectives. The better students understand opposing views, the better their reasoning and negotiation skills to find common ground.
This CCSS session is sponsored by the Arsalyn Program

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