Witches, Out of the Shadows

Competencies :

Reflection on ethical questions, including:

• Tolerance – Draw upon specific cases to help students reflect on indifference, tolerance, and intolerance. Help them consider various responses that individuals and societies have had regarding such situations.

• Justice – Reflections on justice: remedial justice, social justice, universal justice, etc.

• Human ambivalence – Reflections on the complexity of human beings and the occasional challenges to consistency between human actions, feelings, and ideas in certain contexts.

Connections to elements of the program content:

• Representations of the divine and of mythical and supernatural beings – Make students aware that the divine and mythical and supernatural beings are represented in many ways, according to various cultures and religious traditions. Draw upon various forms of religious expression, such as symbols, writings, and objects associated with a given religion.

• Religions down through time – Become aware that human beings have always asked themselves fundamental questions and that various religious traditions or currents of thought have offered answers.

• Religious references in art and culture – Become aware that the religious character of certain works of art refers to writings, key figures, and religious objects, and that these aspects can sometimes be found in secular works of art.