AC9HH10K18
Year 10
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH10K18 | Year 10 History: The globalising world
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor continuities and changes in perspectives, responses, beliefs and values that have influenced the Australian way of life
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
The globalising world
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 10 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration explaining why environmental movements gained increasing public voice and identifying different perspectives
- • Elaboration investigating how Australians in the 1960s and 1970s, influenced by the events of those decades, began to question the traditional notions of egalitarianism, a fair go, classlessness and democracy; for example, conscription and the Vietnam War, the Women’s Liberation Movement and the dismissal of the Whitlam government
- • Elaboration comparing and contrasting the policies relating to engagement with the Asia-Pacific region of the governments led by prime minister Paul Keating (1991–1996) and prime minister John Howard (1996–2007)
- • Elaboration examining the nature of religion in Australia; for example, the changing attitudes to religious practice, the increase of non-Christian religions and non-traditional Christian churches
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