EDF5144 · Humanities: History in secondary years B

Overview

This unit builds on EDF5143 Humanities: History in secondary years A and continues to develop your understandings and skills with regard to the teaching and learning of history as either a stand-alone discipline or an identifiable and rigorous component of integrated programs in Australian or overseas schools or gallery, library, archive and museum (GLAM) wider educational settings. Successful completion of this unit enables you to demonstrate advanced knowledge, skills and capabilities in history education. The unit continues to be practice-based, research-informed and resource-rich. It embraces diverse histories, perspectives, pedagogies and technologies, and prepares you to tailor history education experiences to meet your students' different learning, career, leisure and life needs. It explores advanced teaching, learning and assessment strategies with emphases on 'viewing', 'listening to' and 'visiting' primary sources of the past. It engages with relevant professions and communities, especially leading history education resource providers at state/territory, national and international levels. It encourages effective inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, and sustainability imperatives, and identifies connections between civics and citizenship education and history education. It develops the suite of skills associated with unit planning and delivery at all secondary year levels, examines the requirements of various history curricula in Australia and concludes with focus on the recently revitalised VCE histories. It concludes by offering strategies for securing employment as a history/humanities school teacher or educator in GLAM education settings that advocate and work for high quality history education experiences and respond effectively to history education curriculum priorities and other relevant education developments, locally and globally, as they arise.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. develop your learners' study, career, leisure and life skills through the knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and behaviours associated specifically with the study of history
2. locate, create, use and evaluate history education resources in diverse forms incorporating diverse perspectives and inclusive approaches
3. articulate the research underpinnings of pedagogical models common to history education and enact effectively such models in diverse learning settings
4. cater to learners' different needs through inclusive strategies and engaging and diverse teaching, learning and assessment activities
5. develop learners' abilities to demonstrate problem-solving capabilities in a variety of ways, including creatively, collaboratively and with competence in information and communication technologies (ICTs)
6. facilitate learners' identification of continuities and changes, and similarities and differences, between the experiences of peoples in the past and the present and between the experiences of peoples in different locations
7. develop learners' empathy, values, attitudes and behaviours consistent with informed and positive local and global citizenship for a more equitable and sustainable world.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements. Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.