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Primary Humanities Education (EDUC91091)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2022
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Overview
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This subject focuses on the Primary Humanities domains of Geography, History, Economics and Business, and Civics and Citizenship. Teacher Candidates will be introduced to the Humanities as a broad, complex and dynamic field concerned with people as social beings who interact with one another and with natural and social environments through time and place. This subject references the Australian/ Victorian Curricula. This subject aims to explore how the Humanities curriculum can be designed to help students understand the world around them in local, national and global contexts. This includes learning about diversity, worldviews and democratic principles to enable students to participate in our world as informed citizens.
Teacher Candidates will consider how the Humanities can be linked with other curriculum areas and in contexts beyond the school classroom. They will explore the important role technologies play in transforming, restoring and sustaining societies and supporting students to be regional and global citizens. Teacher Candidates will apply their understanding through inquiry-based curriculum design. Through the inquiry process, opportunities for active and informed citizenship will be explored. General capabilities will be addressed such as critical and creative thinking, intercultural understanding, ethical understanding and personal and social responsibility.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, Teacher Candidates should be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of content and skills as mandated in the Humanities Victorian Curriculum.
- Select content and apply teaching strategies associated with the Humanities and inclusive student-centred pedagogies when planning, structuring, sequencing, assessing and evaluating learning programs.
- Enrich the teaching and learning of Humanities through the development of differentiated inquiry-based curriculum for all primary students.
- Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes they intend to teach in the Humanities.
- Use digital and design technologies and ICT resources when planning the Humanities curriculum.
Generic skills
This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.
- Creativity and innovation.
- Teamwork and professional collaboration.
- Learning to learn and metacognition.
- Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base.
- Linking theory and practice.
- Inquiry and research.
- Active and participatory citizenship.
- Ethical and intercultural understanding.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Presentation: Expo presentation of excursion venue
| Mid semester | 10% |
Report: Written report and learning experience based on an excursion venue
| Mid semester | 40% |
Inquiry unit rationale: Rationale focusing on a generative question in the Humanities
| During the examination period | 25% |
Unit of work: Inquiry-based unit of work (group assignment) focusing on the Humanities curriculum
| During the examination period | 25% |
Attendance Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 80% attendance at, or engagement with, all sessions identified as contact hours (may include lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops, both synchronous and asynchronous). | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2022
Time commitment details
Total time commitment: 170 hours. Contact hours: 24 hours of on-campus classes.
Additional delivery details
This subject will be available in Semester 2, 2023.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A collection of readings will be provided via Readings Online on the LMS.
Recommended texts and other resources
Gilbert, R., & Hoepper, B. (2019). Teaching humanities and social sciences: History, geography, economics and citizenship in the Australian curriculum (7th ed.). South Melbourne VIC: Cengage Learning Australia.
Reynolds, R. (2018) Teaching studies of society and environment in the primary school. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Scoffham, S,. & Rawlinson, S. (2021 TBC). Teaching About Sustainability in Primary Schools. UK: Bloomsbury. To be published.
Taylor, T., Fahey, C., Kriewaldt, J. & Boon, D. (2018). Place and time: Explorations in teaching geography and history. Melbourne: Pearson Education Australia.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Primary) - Links to additional information
Melbourne Graduate School of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
Last updated: 10 February 2024