Critical Analysis of Australian Curriculum Unit Plan
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Critical Analysis of Australian Curriculum Unit Plan
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Running head: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM UNIT PLANCRITICAL ANALYSIS OF AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM UNIT PLANName of the studentName of the universityAuthor Note
1CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM UNIT PLANIntroductionThe Australian curriculum has been formulated and structure in order to help the studentsgather necessary educational and academic skills along with proper knowledge andunderstanding, which in turn would help them to engage effectively to the ever-expandingGlobal world. In order to attain such, the Australian Curriculum has been structured and createdin such manner, which exhibits strong relevance with the students and their daily chores as wellas the issue, which they come across daily (Brady & Kennedy 2013). This essay mainly criticizes the structure and the purpose of the Australian Curriculum plan,which intends to impart the students, which absolute and corrigible learning, to help them gatherawareness regarding the world around them. This report mainly emphasizes the strength of theunit plan and defines the validity of the lessons with respect to the curriculum plan. On a furthernote, this report investigates and criticizes the significance of the lesson plan, which has beenembedded within along with the teacher’s planning to develop the skills of the students. Thisessay also validates and focuses on the accuracy of the resources, with the historical occurrencesand validity.The main purpose of the essay is to investigate and analyze the significance and therationality of the Australian curriculum plan, which in turn is instrumental in contributing to theknowledge and skills gathering of the students in the end.Critical analysis of the Australian Curriculum Unit Plan According to the Australian Curriculum, it can be considered to hold relevancy with boththe daily lives of the students along with the daily chores or occurrences that take place in the
2CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM UNIT PLANlives of the student. With these contemplation, along with the Melbourne Declaration on theEducational goals for young Australians, the curriculum has been specially structured anddevised to impart information on three specific priorities, which includes the Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islander History and Culture, Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia andSustainability (Gosper & Ifenthaler, 2013). The main reason to consider such priorities, is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islandcommunities hold highly rich and fertile cultural values along with deep knowledge with aholistic view of the world. The people living in these communities are exceptional in nature andhold a unique sense of identification and one of the oldest living cultures. Therefore, learningabout such a culture is an advantage to gather knowledge regarding one of the oldest cultures inAustralia. The knowledge regarding the cultures of the Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islanderprovides a huge opportunity for the young to enhance their knowledge with respect to the culturein Australia (Price, 2015). The main reason to include the Asia’s Engagement with that ofAustralia being Asia’s extensive engagement with Australia based in the social, economic,political and cultural aspects. The rising nations of Asia have been growing rapidly andcontributing to the development of Australia. This section has been included in the curriculum tohelp the students impart them with activeness and explain them to work with the othercommunity in harmony. In addition, this also helps in the understanding of the diversity in thecultures of the both countries as well as helps develop empathy and integration towards thesocial and cultural attributes along with the connection of the people from the two continentswith the rest of the world. The inclusion of sustainability has been done with the purpose ofhelping the learning minds to understand the ways of social, economic as well as theenvironmental systems, which can help in the support and the maintaining of human lives. This
3CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM UNIT PLANhas been introduced cultivate the feeling of empathy and respect for the diverse view and culture,which in turn can facilitate a source of sustainable development. In addition this section wouldalso help the young mind to cultivate creativity and critical thinking to develop more effectiveand unconventional ways of sustainability and livelihood.For each cross-curriculum and set of priories have been demonstrated in order to reflectthe essential knowledge and understanding along with the needed skills to engage the student,which is obviously one of the intelligent methods to help the students enhance their own innateabilities of understanding and analyzing. The organizing of these ideas have been embedded inform of content descriptions in each area of learning, whatsoever is necessary (McKeachie &Svinicki 2013). This organizing of the ideas with the interconnections, which in turn facilitatesthe support of information and supporting of the fact is, in turn, a smart method of keeping theyoung minds and learners interested and meets their requirements. This module of organizing ofideas is considerably helpful, for the teachers, who can furthermore establish a connection withthe ongoing topic with another subsidiary topic. This is also helpful in pinpointing otherperspectives, which can help students to develop their analysis and analytical skills. For example,students are being taught English with respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Islanders History andcultural priority, in this prospect, the teachers select stories for the specific study units from thedifferent culture related to the Aboriginal and Torres Islanders History and cultural throughdifferent range of media, like magazines, newspaper and other digitals forms. This would notonly help the students to gather knowledge about the history of the Torres islanders but also helpthem analyze the power of media, how it influenced by the context and the purpose, theeffectiveness of the language selection and features of the story. These aspects would help thestudent to only learn but develop their thinking capability as well as analytical skills.
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