EDF5859 · Humanities and social sciences in the primary school

Overview

This unit examines how primary school students can learn to understand the world through history, economics, geography and citizenship education using single-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and integrated lenses on the world. This includes understandings of the range of cultural experiences within both Australian and global communities. You will engage with theoretical, philosophical, pedagogical viewpoints and assessment strategies that address issues related to themes within the Australian Curriculum and related state curriculum frameworks, including cross curriculum priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, environmental sustainability, and engagement with Asia and the world. The unit develops understanding of how educators can embrace diversity and teach how natural and human events shape our societies and places within them.

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

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. understand how students learn and develop knowledge, skills and understanding in the humanities and social sciences
2. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the comparative concepts, structure of content and diversity of teaching strategies
3. plan lesson sequences in the humanities and social sciences, using knowledge of student learning, content and effective teaching strategies, and a range of resources
4. demonstrate the capacity to monitor, assess and interpret student learning in ways that acknowledge and engage with diversity using a variety of assessment methods, including application of moderation to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning
5. develop understanding of democratic practice and equity within communities
6. show sociocultural awareness and positive views of students from diverse backgrounds
7. understand the ways in which different perspectives and cross-cultural understandings influence and shape communities and schools, including ATSI perspectives
8. understand the range of cultural experiences within Australian and global communities and the ways in which many cultures have changed the nature of Australian society
9. reflect critically on your beliefs about how teachers can and should contribute to social justice.

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 Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

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