This element involves students identifying, observing, describing and analysing increasingly sophisticated characteristics of their own cultural identities and those of others.
Students move from their known worlds to explore new ideas and experiences related to specific cultural groups through opportunities provided in the learning areas. They compare their own knowledge and experiences with those of others, learning to recognise commonalities, acknowledging differences between their lives and recognising the need to engage in critical reflection about such differences, seeking to understand them. Students recognise and appreciate differences between people and respect another person’s point of view and their human rights. In developing and acting with intercultural understanding, students:
- investigate culture and cultural identity
- explore and compare cultural knowledge, beliefs and practices
- develop respect for cultural diversity.
Level 2
Typically by the end of Year 2, students:
Investigate culture and cultural identity
identify and describe the various groups to which they belong and the ways people act and communicate within them
Explore and compare cultural knowledge beliefs and practices
describe and compare the way they live with people in other places or times
Develop respect for cultural diversity
describe ways that diversity presents opportunities for new experiences and understandings