Canadian Points of View Reference Centre
The Canadian Points of View Reference Centre is a comprehensive database designed to provide in-depth analysis of a wide range of contemporary issues relevant to Canada. It features full-text essays and opposing viewpoints on over 200 topics, including significant matters such as climate change, indigenous rights, electoral reform, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource aids students and researchers in understanding complex issues, developing persuasive arguments, and enhancing their analytical skills through a balanced presentation of perspectives.
The database includes an array of materials, such as essays from leading political magazines, news transcripts, primary source documents, and multimedia content that enriches the learning experience. It also offers critical analysis guides, which support users in evaluating controversies and forming their own informed opinions. Additionally, the Canadian Points of View Reference Centre aligns with K-12 curriculum standards and includes features to assist educators in accommodating diverse learning needs, such as text-to-speech options. Overall, this resource serves as a valuable tool for fostering informed discussions and critical thinking on pressing Canadian issues.
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre is a database that presents full-text, high-quality overviews and opposing opinions on numerous Canadian current issues. Containing resources that present multiple sides of a current issue — including information on key topics of interest to researchers interested in Canada — this database helps students realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills. The database’s content includes hundreds of essays and images covering many pressing current issues, including climate change, aboriginal peoples’ civil rights, electoral reform, and COVID-19, and helps students gain fuller perspectives on these topics in order to generate informed opinions of their own.
Resources for Critical Analysis
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre covers more than 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument.
Available in its own user-friendly interface, Canadian Points of View Reference Centre provides a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including main essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, primary source documents, reference books, and a series of titles from World Public Opinion. The database also offers guides to developing arguments, writing position papers, and debating. Additionally, this database contains a video encyclopedia of the 20th century, providing students with a searchable collection of some of the most important social, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century.
School Curriculum Support
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre provides access to EBSCO's Curriculum Standards Module, which helps K-12 educators correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to province-specific curriculum standards. The module provides browsing of specific benchmarks, many of which have recommended search strings for successful content retrieval.
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre also features alternative content delivery options to support Individual Education Plans, such as text-to-speech for HTML articles, allowing educators to better support the needs of struggling readers, auditory learners, and ESL students. In addition, the database includes rich multimedia content, student research guides and citation help.
About EBSCO
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