Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Lecture Notes

This set of vocabulary flashcards covers the curriculum components, definitions, and key concepts of the Grade 12 HUMSS subject Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century.

Subject Title

Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century

Total Hours per Semester

$80$ hours/ semester

Pre-requisite subjects

Pilosopiya Ng Tao and Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

Ethics of care

A concept explored through the development of critical and creative thinking skills for decision making and understanding global trends.

Trend

A pattern derived from instances that consists of specific elements and characteristics, differentiated from a fad.

Local Networks

Systems of power relations including political, economic, cultural, and kinship ties within a community.

Strategic analysis

A systematic thinking process used to understand the emergence of trends and patterns in local networks.

Intuitive thinking

A way of thinking used in dealing with varied activities and for introducing creative solutions to community problems.

Globalization

A process involving global networks, components, operations, and effects like labor and migration that impact daily life.

Planetary Networks: Climate Change

The study of how personal and local actions, specifically consumption and production patterns, contribute to global climate consequences.

Democratic Interventions

The study of the meaning and dimensions of democracy, preferred democratic practices, and the benefits of participation.

Undemocratic practices

Factors including gender biases, poverty, political marginalization, racial inequality, cultural domination, crisis of representation, and politics of recognition.

Participatory democracy

A dimension of democracy distinguished from representative democracy involving active participation.

Information Communication Technology (ICT)

Technology that can enslave, emancipate, or empower individuals and facilitate social relationships and political movements.

Neural Networks

Biological connections and thinking processes that show parallelism with social networks.

Social Map

A drawing that traces various roles students play in the community and ranks the significance of those relationships.

HUMSS

Humanities and Social Sciences; the Senior High School Academic Track/Strand to which this course belongs.

Occupy movements

Political movements that can be facilitated by Information Communication Technology (ICT).