History

The following professional learning programs can be used by History/SOSE faculties or by groups of teachers wishing to strengthen the ways in which the History/SOSE curriculum and teaching pedagogies include a focus on Asia. The programs vary in length and can be adapted to fit with school needs and available time.

The Asia Scope and Sequence for SOSE: Professional Learning Workshop

Professional learning which will help teachers audit curriculum and identify opportunities to include Asia-related content in History, Geography and SOSE.View more

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Professor Yong Zhao, Michigan State
‘Schools now have the job of equipping students with the kinds of 21st-century skills and understandings needed in a changed world.’

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Professional learning which connects with History/SOSE

The Australia Kaleidoscope professional learning program engages participants in innovative teaching strategies that can be used to teach History, SOSE and Civics and Citizenship.

The national curriculum

Early in 2009, the then National Curriculum Board invited comment about the proposed shape of the emerging national curriculum in Australia. Here you can read the AEF response to the proposed framing papers History. This response may also stimulate schools to discuss and evaluate local curriculum content.

Economics/SOSE Unit: Regional Communities – Building a Sustainable Future

Explore Australia’s role as part of a regional community in what has been described by some as ‘the Asian century’.View more

Culture/SOSE Unit: Voices and Visions Australia/Asia

Look at cultural identity through the eyes of young people and explore the issues of social cohesion and diversity and the impact of ever-increasing globalisation.View more

History Unit: Contributions from the Past

Focus on the ancient civilisations of China and India through an investigation of how they were governed, their belief systems and their significant achievements.View more

CCE Unit: Voices and Values: Citizens – You and Me

Explore core universal values and rights, aspects of citizenship and the development of intercultural understandings and skills.View more

CCE Unit: Images of Asia: Rules and Symbols

Explore rules associated with classrooms, games and families, and examine the area of cultural symbols and associated rules.View more

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Professor Tony Milner, ANU

"The neglect of 'Asia' - does not arise from the centrality given to Australian history ... What matters is how our national story is presented."