Core Learning Outcome

CI 4.1

Students investigate how religions and spiritual beliefs contribute to Australia’s diverse cultures.

Students know:

 

 

Cultural diversity

religious and spiritual beliefs in Australia’s diverse cultures

·          religions and spiritual beliefs e.g.

-    Christianity

-    Buddhism

-    Islam

-    Judaism

-    Hinduism

-    animism

-    groups within religions (types of Christianity and Islam)

-    personal belief systems

-    belief systems outside an established framework

·          features of religions and belief systems e.g.

-    interconnectedness and diversity of spiritual beliefs among groups such as Indigenous belief systems

-    symbols and practices

how religious and spiritual beliefs contribute to Australia’s diverse cultures

·          statistical profile of Australians’ beliefs

·          religious tolerance and acceptance of a common moral code

·          diverse ethics on similar issues (gender roles, sexism, racism, ways of responding to challenges)

·          how Australian laws are underpinned by Christian heritage

Students can:

 

 

Investigating

investigate

·          use an investigation model e.g.

-    collaboratively frame questions about the topic

-    locate reference materials, guest speakers, site visits for information

-    sort information to answer focus questions

·          analyse data (what range of beliefs do Australians have, what problems does this diversity create for Australians?)

·          report conclusions (individual or small group project presentation)

 

Core Learning Outcome

CI 4.2

Students design an ethical code of personal behaviour based on their perceptions of cultural groups.

Students know:

 

 

Cultural perceptions

ethical code of personal behaviour

·          components and considerations e.g.

-    rules and laws from a range of levels (local to United Nations’ charters)

-    society’s expectations

-    personal beliefs

-    religious beliefs

-    rights, responsibilities

perceptions of cultural groups

·          cultural groups defined by ethnicity, gender, language, age, location, religion, disability, physical appearance, peers

·          attitudes towards material and non-material aspects of groups

·          views shaped by personal and social values

·          relationships between perceptions, actions and language

Students can:

 

 

Creating

design an ethical code of personal behaviour

·          engage in a design process e.g.

-    develop a draft ethical code of personal behaviour based on models (teachers’ code of conduct, familiar rules and laws, observations of other cultures)

-    apply this code to given scenarios to test and assess its effectiveness (peer pressure situation, bullying situation, contact with a person from an unfamiliar group)

-    refine code by reflecting on its effectiveness

-    share code of conduct with others

·          create a satirical or humorous code of ethics based on perceptions of a group (The togetherness code, The seven habits of highly inclusive people)

 

Core Learning Outcome

CI 4.3

Students debate how media images concerning gender, age, ethnicity and ability reflect groups to which they belong.

Students know:

 

 

Belonging

groups to which they belong

·          family

·          community (geographic, electronic)

·          cultural

·          subcultural (peer, youth culture, special interest group)

media images

·          mode (electronic, print)

·          purpose (entertainment, information, advertising)

·          audience (age, ethnicity, gender, location, socioeconomic status)

·          techniques (use of sound, cropping, edited text, placement, visuals)

media images concerning gender, age and ethnicity

·          gender e.g.

-    advertisements that target a product to a gender

-    stereotypes created by imaging

-    selective representation of gender roles

·          age e.g.

-    news reports that create a negative image of young people

-    marketing strategies that are specific to certain age groups

-    whether the wisdom of the elderly is represented

·          ethnicity e.g.

-    tokenistic approach to cultural representation

-    lack of parallels to real-life experiences

-    unnecessary media identification by ethnicity

·          disability e.g.

-    lack of television representation in advertisements and drama

-    lack of recognition of disabled achievements (sport)

Students can:

 

 

Participating

debate how media images reflect groups

·          collect a series of media images that aim to reflect a group to which they belong and participate in a debate about the accuracy of these images

·          participate in a formal debate of the question ‘Young people have been let down by the media’

·          using the question ‘TV gives a false image of what girls like and can do’, take a position on a agree/disagree continua on the floor and justify that position

·          given a scenario of a board inquiry into ethnic representation in television advertising, use given roles to debate views (of advertiser, regular viewer, ethnic representative)

 

Core Learning Outcome

CI 4.4

Students describe changes resulting from cross-cultural contact on Australian and non-Australian Indigenous cultures.

Students know:

 

 

Cultural change

changes resulting from cross-cultural contact

·          displacement of land due to invasion

·          conflict due to resistance

·          cross-pollination of ideas through visitations

·          change of lifestyle caused by new resources, products and ideas

·          loss of identity due to European land use

·          refugee status due to war

·          strategies to respond to change e.g.

-    United Nations Human Rights Commission

-    multicultural policy

-    government organisations to cater for Indigenous people

-    grass roots Indigenous campaigns

Australian Indigenous cultures

·          various Torres Strait Islander groups (local)

·          various Aboriginal groups (local)

non-Australian Indigenous cultures

·          New Zealand Maoris

·          Amazon indigenous groups

·          Inuit

·          Lapps

·          First Peoples of North America

·          Dayaks

·          indigenous peoples of South Africa

Students can:

 

 

Communicating

describe changes

·          use a table to present a comparison of effects and responses to a specific change (European settlement on a specific Australian Indigenous group and one from another global region)

·          use electronic and print sources to locate grass roots campaigns by an Australian and non-Australian Indigenous group (responding to issues associated with land rights) and present information in a written or oral report

·          identify an issue of cultural change that is common to Australian and non-Australian Indigenous groups (health) and prepare a short paper/speech for a forum on world Indigenous affairs

·          design a web page that identifies a contemporary Australian Indigenous issue (native land rights, education), define the issue of change that has caused it; and highlight the links with a parallel issue in a global setting

 

Core Learning Outcome

CI 4.5

Students express how material and non-material aspects of groups influence personal identities.

Students know:

 

 

Construction of identities

material aspects of groups

·          music

·          artefacts

·          place

·          food

·          clothing

·          symbols

non-material aspects of groups

·          behaviours

·          values

·          education

·          attitudes

·          traditions

·          beliefs

·          heritages

·          stories, myths, heroes, villains

·          norms

different groups

·          family

·          peer

·          friendship

·          school

·          recreational

·          special interest

·          ethnic

·          religious

·          location

influence on personal identities

·          sense of self e.g.

-    learning style

-    personality

-    likes/dislikes

-    abilities

·          sense of belonging e.g.

-    feelings (empowerment, powerlessness)

-    behaviours (conformity, hiding behaviour)

Students can:

 

 

Reflecting

express how aspects of groups influence personal identities

·          annotate a photograph or picture of themselves with information that identifies and describes material and non-material aspects of groups to which they belong

·          collect and display artefacts, photographs etc. that represent the material and non-material aspects of a group to which they belong

·          provide affirmations about how personal behaviour or feelings are positively influenced by that group

·          artistically express the influences of a group on personal identity