ACHASSK070

The importance of making decisions democratically

Elaborations

• making a decision as a class by allowing everyone to have a say and a vote (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding)
• building empathy by reflecting on how it feels to be included or excluded from making decisions and identifying situations when it is fair for decisions to be made without taking a majority vote (for example, by teachers or parents) (Skills: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding)
• identifying places and situations in communities where decisions are made democratically (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding)

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