Senior Years Band - SACSA Framework

South Australian Curriculum, Standards and Accountability Framework
Strand: designing
Students are self-managing designers who bring together
experience, self-knowledge and appropriate design
strategies to create ethically defensible products, processes
and systems. Id • In • T • KC1 • KC6
This includes such learning as:
● maintaining a design consciousness of positive and negative impacts on individuals and
communities, and devising strategies for lasting equitable outcomes T • In • F • KC6
● operating strategically, with care and foresight, and using flexible design processes to plan and
manage multifaceted design projects which are of value to diverse cultural groups
T • Id • In • KC3
● investigating and comparing community and industrial design practice in order to improve their
own design capabilities to effect desirable change F • KC1
● designing effectively, and at all times aspiring to ethical, socially and environmentally sustainable
principles, while pursuing such design goals as appropriateness, simplicity and elegance In • T
● searching continually for new ideas, and challenging orthodoxies of practice, to generate
appropriate product, process and systems designs T • Id • F • KC6
● being self-critical, innovative and enterprising while designing for ethically defensible products,
processes and systems T • Id • KC6
● designing with confidence and optimism in order to strive for better futures in contexts of
complexity, uncertainty and change. Id • F • In
50 Senior Years Band — Design and technology
Key Idea