Bound for Success Scope and Sequence Statements

STUDIES OF SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENTCulture and IdentityConcept In Year 1the student:In Year 2the student:In Year 3the student:In Year 4the student:In Year 5the student:In Year 6the student:In Year 7the student:In Year 8the student:In Year 9the student:Cultural DiversityRecognising andrespecting differentcultures within ourcommunity.• Knows that people fromsome cultural groups maylook or dress differentlyfrom them.• Knows that people aredifferent and can sortpeople into groups (e.g.boy/girl, young/old, skincolour, left/right handed).• Describes how peoplemeet their physical needsin different ways (e.g. says“we all eat different typesof food and wear differenttypes of clothes”).• Identifies how social andemotional needs are met indifferent ways (e.g. says“we go to church everySunday” or “we listen toDreaming stories when weget together as a bigfamily”).• Gives examples of diverseways in which particularoccasions are celebratedby groups in theircommunity (e.g.Christmas, Chinese NewYear, ANZAC Day) andknows that groups thatcelebrate the sameoccasion do not alwayscelebrate in the same way.• Knows that Australia is apluralist society withcitizens of diverse originsand cultural backgrounds.• Knows that the culture ofpeople changes over time.• Knows that ‘being anAustralian’ can meandifferent things todifferent people andgroups.• Knows some of thecharacteristics of theiconic Australianindividual.• Identifies a number ofdiverse groups, includingimmigrants andIndigenous, and reportson their development,impact and contributionsto national identity overtime.• Describes the culturalconnections (ie religious,spiritual, social values andbeliefs) of Australianpeople/groups topeople/groups in the Asia-Pacific region.• Knows that culturalgroups share the samevalues, needs andexpectations and that theseare often reflected in theirsocial organisation.• Knows that the values,needs and expectationsshared by groups canchange over time and indifferent contexts.• Knows that culturalgroups share the samevalues, needs andexpectations but that thedegree to which they sharethem might be different(e.g. not all Muslimwomen wear a scarf, notall conservationists areinvolved in SeagrassWatch).• Explains values reflectedin national celebrationsand what these represent(now and in the past) todiverse people and groups,including RemembranceDay, Australia Day,NAIDOC week, ChineseNew Year, Labour Day.• Examine and describes thebelief systems of differentcultural groups inAustralia.• Describes the respectiveroles of men and womenin particular culturestoday, and in othercultures over time.• Knows that nationalAustralian identity canhave different meaningsfor different individualsand groups.• Constructs a timeline todocument key events inthe development ofmulticulturalism andimmigration policies inAustralia.• Understands that somecultural groups maychange their beliefsystems and socialorganisation over time inorder to survive.• Describes how Australia’scultural diversity has beenshaped by governmentpolicies onmulticulturalism,immigration, publicopinion and globalisation.Culturalexpressions andpracticesAll cultural groupsare characterised byvarying degrees ofcohesion anddiversity.• Listens to stories fromdifferent cultures andidentifies similarities anddifferences in thesestories.• Participates in events fromdifferent cultures such asChinese New Yearcelebrations and an end ofRamadan meal.• Knows that some groupscelebrate differentreligious, cultural orhistorical events (e.g.Christians celebrateChristmas and Easter,Muslims celebrateRamadan).• Knows that there aredifferent cultures andforms of culturalexpression and that thesecultures have differentways of singing, dancing,painting and children’sgames.• Identifies some rituals andsymbols with particularcultural groups (e.g.knows that Australianscelebrate Anzac Day toremember the soldiers whodied in wars).• Knows and usessalutations in languages ofother groups.• Knows that symbols,rituals and places reflectidentities of differentcultural groups (e.g. theAustralian flag symbolisesthe Australian nation andthat Uluru is special to allAustralians).• Identifies different formsof cultural expression (e.g.some Aboriginal peoplemay use dance and musicto tell a stories as well aswritten forms).• Describes customs andtraditions of their ownfamily.• Knows that a tradition is atale or a belief or a customand can describe some oftheir family traditions, e.g.how they celebrate NewYear.• Knows that there is arange of diversity withinAustralian Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islandercultures and cultures ofother groups withinAustralia.• Knows that culturalgroups have traditionaland non-traditionalaspects (e.g. knows that agroup of Aboriginalpeople might have atraditional language thatis still used at home butthat they listen to radiobroadcasts in StandardAustralian English, andthat Chinese people mightgive each other gifts atChinese New Year as wellas at Christmas.• Knows that AustralianAboriginal and TorresStrait Islander identitiesgive central place to‘country’ and investigateswhat this means.• Lists and describes valuescontributing to peace andequity in Australiancommunities.• Recognises theinterdependence ofcultural groups and theirworld.• Understands that beliefsand traditions influencethe nature of cultures (e.g.the impact of theenvironment on manyAboriginal lifestyles, andattitudes towards the oldpeople in Chinesecultures).• Identifies national andglobal events that haveinfluenced culturalperceptions of a group ofpeople, analysing the roleof government action andpolicy, individuals and themedia in influencing thesein positive and negativeways (e.g. September 11,drug trafficking, famine inAfrica).• Investigates and reports onthe role of communityperception and responsesto the AustralianAboriginal and TorresStrait Islander people inAustralia, with particularemphasis on racism anddiscrimination.• Knows howimprovements indemocratic participationand citizenship rightsimpact on racism anddiscrimination on groupsand cultures in Australia,and knows the influencesthat shape this change.• Knows that culturalbeliefs and traditions canchange over time (e.g.describes the customs,dominant beliefs, religiousinstitutions, values andeducation system of anancient civilisation such asEgypt, and of a presentdaycivilisation such asAustralia or New Guinea;knows that this too ischanging).Bound for Success Scope and Sequence Statements V2 Page 70 Working Document Semester One 2007