AC9HC8K05 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

how culture and religion may influence individuals' and groups' perceptions and expressions of citizenship and their actions as citizens

Elaborations

• 1 exploring how people express different aspects of their personal identity through membership of multiple communities, such as cultural groups, faith groups, professional associations, trade unions, and sporting and social clubs, and how this is reflected in expressions of citizenship; for example, fund-raising for community services or supporting people experiencing health concerns
• 2 exploring the collective identities of several different groups in Australia’s multicultural society, and how these identities might be represented and perceived
• 3 discussing the differences between legal citizenship, active citizenship and global citizenship

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