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Regional and Global Issues: Professional Learning Program
This professional learning program is developed for secondary teachers and explores key regional and global issues such as sustainability, regional cooperation, youth culture and the movement of people, goods and ideas across borders. Participants can also explore excellent teaching resources which scaffold and expand students’ understandings and plan for inclusion of a focus on regional and global issues in various areas of the curriculum.
Index
- Program resources
- Patterns of delivery
- Session 1: Australia and the Region
- Session 2: Identity
- Session 3: Mobility
- Session 4: Regional Co-operation
- Session 5: Sustainable Futures
- Acknowledgements
Introduction
This professional learning program aims to:
- extend teachers’ knowledge about the major contemporary issues impacting on Australia and the Asia region
- provide support for teachers in dealing with some of the complex issues related to globalisation and its impact in Australia and Asia.
Program audience
The expected audience for this program is teachers of middle to upper secondary school students. The content links with a range of learning areas and curriculum focuses that suits an integrated inquiry-based approach to learning.
Australia and the Region
This session explores Australia’s links with the region along with the significant issues facing some of the major countries in the region. It raises shared challenges in relation to themes of identity, mobility, regional co operation and sustainable futures.
Identity
This session explores how nations explore and shape their identity through nation building and through the statements of leaders. It explores assumptions made about individual identity and the impact of the movement of people on the evolution of Australian identity.
Mobility
This session explores how we are impacted by the movement of ideas, of goods and of people and the values, thinking and actions required of us as global citizens.
Regional Cooperation
This session explores the need for regional cooperation, Australia’s perceived role in regional issues and a range of associated values.
Sustainable futures
This session explores the concepts of preferable, probable and possible futures using Angkor Wat as a focus of a simulation activity.
