Asia Scope and Sequence for The Arts
The purpose of the Asia Scope and Sequence for The Arts is to:
- articulate key curriculum concepts and content across the compulsory years of schooling (up to Year 10)
- provide advice and support to teachers of The Arts in their efforts to engage young Australians with Asia
- point teachers to existing resources that help students to learn about Asia in The Arts classroom.
- Index
- Reading the Scope and Sequence
Reading the Scope and Sequence
The Asia Scope and Sequence for The Arts describes a developmental continuum (the 'sequence') through four stages of schooling and at two levels of detail. The continuum is focused (the 'scope') through those essential learnings relevant to the Asia-Australia relationship that can be taught within Arts programmes.
| Lower Primary (to the end of Year 3) | Upper Primary | Lower Secondary | Middle Secondary (to the end of Year 10) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | Elaboration | Overview | Elaboration | Overview | Elaboration | Overview | Elaboration |
The Overviews by stage of schooling provide a high-level picture of development, while the Professional Elaborations develop these into detailed advice linked to exemplary resources for engaging young Australians with Asia through The Arts curriculum.
The opportunities to learn described in the Overviews and Professional Elaborations are intended to be reasonable, challenging and appropriate. They represent what students can attain by the end of the stage rather than at its beginning.
The Overviews by stage of schooling and the Professional Elaborations should be read together, with the Professional Elaborations expanding upon and providing more specific detail to clarify the intent of the Overviews. Each Overview and Elaboration subsumes the knowledge, skills, understanding and capacities of the Overview and Elaboration that precedes it.
Selecting content
The Professional Elaborations in this document provide the connections between opportunities to learn and appropriate resources. They have been designed to illustrate the diversity of Asia rather than to provide a depth of focus on one particular country. In selecting content, curriculum designers in schools need to strike a balance between in-depth studies of selected countries and broader, more general studies that explore themes, topics or issues. Auditing the primary or secondary curriculum at the school level is important. An audit will provide data about the school's capacity to deliver in-depth, sustained and sequentially developed understandings of some countries in Asia as well as an infusion of content in specific units which delivers understandings of diversity or of key events or themes relevant to the local curriculum.
Resources
The Asia Scope and Sequence for The Arts uses curriculum resources from Asia and Australia. Different types of resources may be used to assist students to appreciate and critique a range of perspectives, biases and stereotypes, and to be conscious of cultural relativism when investigating an area of content.
The exemplary print and electronic resources listed in the Elaborations and References are intended to provide suggestions for teachers of The Arts about the texts on which they can draw to support the scope and sequence. The list is not exhaustive and draws primarily on existing studies of Asia resources. The study of a specific Asian language, or the ethnic background of students, should influence the selection of content within the school's broader studies of Asia programmes.
In many cases the suggested resources are suitable as stimulus material to support engagement with Asia; in other cases, a resource identifies full lesson plans and units of work that are appropriate for exploring the concepts and ideas outlined. Teachers will become familiar with the extensive range of material as they scan through the resources, and will identify other texts suitable for their classrooms.
Overviews by stages of schooling
In the following tables, each of the Overviews is preceded by a code such as Da1, Me2 and so on. These codes are intended to provide reference points for educators using this document in discussions or curriculum design.
Lower and Upper primary
These Overviews have been developed for primary teachers. They summarise the more detailed content of the Professional Elaborations which describe in detail the knowledge, skills, understandings and capacities that students in Australia should have the opportunity to learn in The Arts learning area.
Lower and Middle Secondary
These Overviews have been developed for secondary teachers. They summarise the more detailed content of the Professional Elaborations which describe in detail the knowledge, skills, understandings and capacities that students in Australia should have the opportunity to learn in The Arts learning area.
Asia Scope and Sequence for SOSE Professional Development: H/O Asia in the Classroom
