Professional Learning

Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia

The Australian Curriculum cross curriculum priorities outline three priorities that should be addressed across all learning areas:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
• Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia
• Sustainability.

 In the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, the priority of Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia provides rich and engaging contexts for developing students' abilities across The Arts.

The Australian Curriculum: The Arts provides opportunities for students to gain explicit content about Asia.

In the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, students can examine art forms that have arisen from the rich and diverse belief systems and traditions of the Asia region. Students can consider the aesthetic qualities of these art forms as well as their local, regional and global influence. This learning area provides opportunities to investigate the role of the arts in developing, maintaining and transforming cultural beliefs and practices and communicating an understanding of the rich cultural diversity of the Asia region. Students can engage with a variety of art forms, media, instruments and technologies of the Asia region. They can reflect on the intrinsic value of these artworks and artists’ practices as well as their place and value within broader social, cultural, historical and political contexts

From Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia in the Australian Curriculum: The Arts.