Image credit: C.Costello (2018)
Society and Culture - Preliminary Course
Congratulations on choosing the absolutely BEST and most RELEVANT subject in the NSW Curriculum!!
Rationale for Society and Culture
The central concern of Society and Culture Stage 6 is the interaction of persons, societies, cultures, environments and time.
Society and Culture has direct relevance to the immediate needs of students and to their future lives by enabling students to develop understanding of:
• themselves
• their own society and culture
• the societies and cultures of others.
Society and Culture is a conceptually based course that promotes students' awareness of the cultural continuities and changes within societies and cultures.
It provides them with skills to critically analyse complementary and contrasting viewpoints about people, societies, cultures and environments, and their interactions across time.
Society and Culture promotes an awareness of the nature of power and authority, gender, technology and facilitates intercultural understanding.
Society and Culture contributes greatly to the ethos of lifelong learning, while providing opportunities to acquire a range of skills to support such learning.
The study of Society and Culture prepares students for adult life by developing qualities associated with effective citizenship. In so doing, it forms a basis for moving towards a more just society through positive participation in community life and, social and cultural literacy.
Congratulations on choosing the absolutely BEST and most RELEVANT subject in the NSW Curriculum!!
Rationale for Society and Culture
The central concern of Society and Culture Stage 6 is the interaction of persons, societies, cultures, environments and time.
Society and Culture has direct relevance to the immediate needs of students and to their future lives by enabling students to develop understanding of:
• themselves
• their own society and culture
• the societies and cultures of others.
Society and Culture is a conceptually based course that promotes students' awareness of the cultural continuities and changes within societies and cultures.
It provides them with skills to critically analyse complementary and contrasting viewpoints about people, societies, cultures and environments, and their interactions across time.
Society and Culture promotes an awareness of the nature of power and authority, gender, technology and facilitates intercultural understanding.
Society and Culture contributes greatly to the ethos of lifelong learning, while providing opportunities to acquire a range of skills to support such learning.
The study of Society and Culture prepares students for adult life by developing qualities associated with effective citizenship. In so doing, it forms a basis for moving towards a more just society through positive participation in community life and, social and cultural literacy.
The Syllabus
| society-culture-st6-syl-from2015.pdf |
Fundamental Course Concepts
NESA NSW Society and Culture Stage 6 Syllabus, Sydney, 2013
Acknowlegement of country
We acknowledge that this school is situated on the traditional lands of the Tharawal people and pay respect to elders both past and present and their rich cultural history
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References
NESA NSW Society and Culture Stage 6 Syllabus, Sydney, 2013. Retrieved from http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/hsie/society-culture
Image Credits
Costello, C. (2018). Diagram of Fundamental Concepts reworked from BOSTES 2013 Society and Culture Stage 6 Syllabus
Costello, C. (2013). Futorum Terra Nullius
NESA NSW Society and Culture Stage 6 Syllabus, Sydney, 2013. Retrieved from http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/hsie/society-culture
Image Credits
Costello, C. (2018). Diagram of Fundamental Concepts reworked from BOSTES 2013 Society and Culture Stage 6 Syllabus
Costello, C. (2013). Futorum Terra Nullius