Folio 3: Reconciliation@MOC
Topic Group 1: Culture - Cultural Diversity
What assessment task are we working towards?Each year Year 12 Society and Culture students make a major contribution to Mark Oliphant College's Indigenous Culture Week in week 3 of Term 3, as a form of social action.
This year you will be contributing to a display in Building 12 to create wider awareness and understanding of, and respect for, contemporary Indigenous cultural diversity. You will work in small groups of 2-4 to help you practice for our upcoming Group Interaction task. Curricular contextFrom the SACE Board:
Group 1 Topics: Culture CULTURAL DIVERSITY This topic offers an opportunity to introduce students to various major belief and/or cultural systems through concepts such as rules, structures, class, gender, ceremony, power, fear, and order. Students should understand the differences between beliefs, values, and attitudes, and how these are linked to culture. Students may analyse their social and cultural worlds, and question and challenge belief systems, acknowledging that such systems, as well as identities, are socially constructed and can therefore be changed. Students consider factors that affect resistance to, or acceptance of, change. They examine the concept of change — its initiation, impact, and management — in a cultural setting. They evaluate the ways in which things have been done and decisions have been made in the past or present, and challenge ideas and interpretations of events to encourage future change. They analyse why, in the process of change, some stories are not heard or are silenced. In exploring cultural diversity, students may be introduced to a range of examples in different societies or in different groups or subcultures of a particular society. Students may examine the ways in which values and beliefs shape cultures and societies. They may consider and act on ways to create wider awareness and understanding of, and respect for, cultural diversity. Students may identify and analyse attitudes relevant to their own beliefs, cultural competencies, and practices, and assess and develop strategies to support change and social inclusion. |
In week 1 we will look at these three topics to set the context for your task.
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