HSIE+perspective

=  Human Society and its Environment perspective   = ** Rationale  ** Human Society and its Environment provide a knowledge base for students to gain understandings about change and continuity, cultures, environments, and social systems and structures. Students will have opportunities to learn about people and their environments with which they interact. This knowledge base provides the foundation for studies of Australian and world history and geography, for social, cultural and legal studies for environmental and economic studies, and for citizenship education.

The aim of Human Society and its Environment is to develop in students the values and attitudes, skills and knowledge and understandings that:  · Enhance their sense of personal, community, national and global identity;  · Enable them to participate effectively in maintaining and improving the quality of their society and environment. ** Learning Outcomes ** Knowledge and understandings about:  · Change and continuity  · Cultures  · Environments  · Social systems and structures. S kills in:  · Acquiring information  · Using and inquiry process  · Social and civic participation. Values and Attitudes:  · Interest in, and informed and responsible attitudes towards, people, cultures, religions, societies, environments and learning, with a commitment to: social justice; intercultural understanding; ecological sustainability; democratic processes; beliefs and moral codes and lifelong learning.  · Develop a sense of pride in the presentation of their work.
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