AC9HH9S07 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor analyse different and contested historical interpretations

Elaborations

• • Elaboration exploring debates about the historical period or topic studied, such as the relative importance of and responsibility for the causes of First World War
• • Elaboration comparing similarities and differences in historians' views about colonial society, such as the emergence of Australian identity, the influence of the "White Australia" debate on the push for Federation, and the idea of Australia as a "working man's paradise"
• • Elaboration identifying different interpretations of specific events (for example, the debate about conscription in Australia during the First World War)
• • Elaboration analysing how historians have changed the way they interpret the event under investigation over time, such as a change in view with the discovery of more sources (for example, as with frontier conflicts in Australia)