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• Capabilities | Intercultural Capability: Resources

  A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

  • Victorian Curriculum F – 10 Resources and Support (VCAA)

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  Overview material | Intercultural Capability

• VCICCD016

  Evaluate the ways in which the community demonstrates the value it places on cultural diversity, and why this valuing of cultural diversity is important to the community

  Elaborations

  • exploring how councils or Governments support community commemorations and celebrations, such as Chinese New Year
  • identifying buildings or spaces that are used for cultural gatherings/meeting or religious purposes, such as libraries, theatres, community halls, prayer rooms, churches and mosques
  • discussing the ways in which different community members participate in events held across the year, such as annual fairs and music events, or by looking into the services or programs offered at libraries, in your local paper or within the school
  • using Australian Bureau of Statistics census data to create a presentation that tracks changes to the cultural composition in the local community over time and use an online service such as Trove (National Library of Australia) to uncover images or newspaper articles to include in the presentation
  • asking students to imagine they are coordinating a local event and to outline the steps they would take to show the value placed on including culturally diverse community members

  VCICCD016 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Cultural Diversity

• VCICCB014

  Examine how various cultural groups are represented, by whom they are represented, and comment on the purpose and effect of these representations

  Elaborations

  • using journal entries to collate, identify and critically explore generalisations and stereotypes from media sources, including television, radio and social media
  • examining the concepts of generalisations and stereotypes through a range of different representations of cultural groups, for example, positive and negative representations of Australians or by examining Australian tourism campaigns across different decades
  • analysing media coverage of a current issue and exploring the way different groups are represented
  • removing, rewriting, replacing or changing the racial identifiers in a short newspaper article, letter to the editor or political cartoon, and reflecting on ways that representations of stereotypes can be challenged

  VCICCB014 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Cultural Practices

• VCICCB017

  Analyse the complex and dynamic interrelationships between and within cultures in a range of contexts and the impact of these interrelationships on their own and others cultural practices

  Elaborations

  • discussing how student’s own expression of cultural practices may be complicated, for example, individuals may share the same nationality but have parents with different cultural heritages and/or linguistic backgrounds
  • analysing multifaceted and complex cultural practices, for example, how religion intersects with and diverges from culture or cultural practices
  • analysing and describing how culture and language use are interrelated and reflect and shape relationships, practices and attitudes between and within cultural communities
  • investigating the context and significant factors that contribute to a current global issue that includes an intercultural dimension, such as people movement, and prompt students to propose actions that may help improve or alleviate contributing factors

  VCICCB017 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Cultural Practices

• VCICCD011

  Identify barriers to and means of reaching understandings within and between culturally diverse groups

  Elaborations

  • exploring language variation within Australia, such as the different terms for a swimming costume (togs, cozzies or swimmers), or the practice of using diminutives, such as Aussie (Australian), sanga (sandwich) and footy (football)
  • exploring potential barriers to intercultural understanding, language for example, and discussing possible ways to address or reduce barriers, such as Government agencies using translation services including Auslan and closed captioning
  • brainstorming a list of questions students might ask a student in another country, and then identifying whether any of the questions may be uncomfortable for the person asking or responding
  • using a current global issue to investigate a range of positive and negative cultural stereotypes and generalisations and identifying how they can be challenged
  • exploring the view of Australia as a successful multicultural country and discussing potential impacts of the strengthening or weakening of this view, for example, events that help to foster inclusiveness or that may trigger an increase in racial intolerance

  VCICCD011 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 5 and 6 | Cultural Diversity