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Something that is necessary and affects our lives (eg covid)
Relatable / Connectedness to one’s

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Part of students everyday life. Can be local or international contexts that connect to their personal experiences.

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Relevant to the students & family

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Relevant and current but may or may not be able to surface multiple perspectives

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Issues (eg social issues happening) that affects the greater population but may not impact them directly (eg recession - may not affect the students directly but it may be affected through family members)

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Able to surface multiple perspectives (reconcile the opposing camps)
Relevant and current because there’s direct impact on SG in terms of diplomacy and trade relations

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Ongoing issues. Cannot be out-dated.

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1) It affects our daily life and our children and grand children and grand grand children.
2) It affects the survival of our country.

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Students of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds can share. There is no clear right and wrong.

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Multicultural, nationality.
No clear right or wrong; but for awareness.

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Cuts across all domains. In the context of the States, that’ll be Black Lives Matter

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Important for students to empathise and understand different perspectives.

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relevant to students daily lives

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Environmentalists vs capitalists

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Use current issues for students' immediate interest, curiosity and connection

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fake news, foreign workers dormitory,
black lives matter

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Malaysian political disputes - taught how we shouldn’t take our national issues for granted

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Relevant to students lives. Eg: Covid-19 and elections

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Has an impact on students
Students can relate to the issue

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Happening now. Discussion must be timely before it becomes old news

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Relevance = topics that matters to students / that they can relate to

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Link to real Life issues

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Timely, recent

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Topics that they are or will be interacting with

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Topics that may not affect students now, but will enable students to be future ready

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Allows for considerations from different points of views
No right/wrong responses
Able to respect each others' points of view

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How does it affect self, family and community.
Develop different perspective
Some issues are not as clear cut with many grey areas and can discuss and share viewpoints

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Ad hoc events that appear without any regular pattern

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Ad hoc events that appear without any regular pattern

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Climate change; haze; elections; covid-19

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New norm

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Something that the students are able to relate to. Eg. Racism, social media

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Topics that they involved in so they have some prior knowledge. Current issues change over time as well, so there's opportunity to learn from the evolution of these changes.

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Affecting students lives in the society/community

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Respecting, but agreeing to disagree

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ongoing issues/news happening within the year such  as climate change, covid 19, environment,

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Varies according to profile, interest, family background, etc

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Being able to agree to disagree peacefully.