Inquiry in the Humanities and Social Sciences Classroom

• • What is HASS?
  • Approaches to teaching HASS: Social justice and the democratic classroom
  • Ways of Teaching: History
  • Ways of Teaching: Exploring Indigenous history and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives
  • Planning HASS: Integration and the HASS Curriculum
  • Planning HASS: Inquiry learning
  • Ways of Teaching: Geography
  • Ways of Teaching: Civics and Citizenship
  • Ways of Teaching: Economics and Business
  • Ways of Teaching: Assessment in HASS, Incursions and excursions
  • Approaches to teaching HASS: Building sustainable communities, developing empathy

Equivalent subjects

You cannot enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-EDP315

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

CUR-EDC171-Teachers Inquiring About the World, or CUR-EDC175-Educators Inquiring About the World ;

Others

You don't have to enrol in this subject if you have completed EDP315 Society and Environment Education as they are considered equivalents.

Special requirements

No special requirements

This subject was previously known as Inquiry in the Humanities Classroom.

This subject introduces each of the HASS discipline areas and the pedagogy and theory – including inquiry learning and curriculum integration – which can assist students to develop teaching, learning and assessment strategies for HASS in the Primary classroom. Students will explore the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that enable children to become active and informed citizens as they connect with their local and global communities. Students will reflect on the role of the educator as a global citizen. Through the thematic of contested histories, they will explore how difference – cultural and otherwise – is valued and respected in the HASS classroom; and how that can empower children from diverse backgrounds, while laying the basis for sustainable communities.

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• Analytical Essay (50%)
• Inquiry Project (50%)

Current study term: 30 May 21 to 29 Aug 21)

Next study term: 28 Nov 21 to 27 Feb 22