HSIE
Human Society and its Environment (HSIE) is the key learning area where students develop knowledge, skills, understandings, values and attitudes, about people and their social and physical environments. HSIE provides students with learning experiences to:
- Develop knowledge and essential understandings about Australia’s history and geography, the people who live within its territory and their social, cultural, economic and political lives.
- Develop knowledge, skills and understandings about Australians, European influences, the original occupation of Australia by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and Australia’s shared history.
- Develop understandings about Australian in the context of the Asian and Pacific regions of the world, and other cultures in the world.
- Develop skills that enable them to acquire information, use an inquiry process and participate in social and civic life.
- Learn about the values and attitudes related to social justice, intercultural understanding, ecological sustainability, democratic processes, beliefs, moral codes and life long learning.
- Consider and investigate current and future issues, ideas, problems and trends.
At St Andrew's Cathedral School Gawura campus our students:
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Are encouraged to develop knowledge and understandings about:
- Change and continuity
- Cultures
- Environments
- Social systems and structures
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Are supported in developing their skills:
- Acquiring information
- Using an inquiry process
- Social and civic participation
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Are engaged in learning experiences that encourage interest in and informed attitudes towards:
- Social Justice
- Intercultural understanding
- Ecological sustainability
- Democratic processes
- Beliefs and moral codes
- Lifelong learning
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Are provided with learning experiences that incorporate perspectives such as:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- Citizenship
- Environmental
- Gender
- Multicultural
- Work perspectives
