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• Capabilities | Intercultural Capability: Learning in Intercultural Capability

  The Intercultural capability curriculum focuses on learning about cultural understandings and practices. Students examine, reflect on and challenge assumptions, stereotypes and prejudices and explore how intercultural experiences can influence and change attitudes and beliefs.

  Students apply...

  Overview material | Intercultural Capability

• Capabilities | Intercultural Capability: Rationale and Aims

  Rationale

  Intercultural interactions have become a part of everyday life in our increasingly multicultural and globalised world. Developing intercultural knowledge, skills and understandings is an essential part of living with others in the diverse world of the twenty-first century. The Intercultural...

  Overview material | Intercultural Capability

• VCICCB002

  Describe their experiences of intercultural encounters in which they have been involved

  Elaborations

  • exploring stories that describe experiences of intercultural encounters, for example, when students met someone who spoke a language different from their own
  • brainstorming a range of activities, locations, events or technologies that may provide intercultural experiences, such as international travel, visiting their local library, attending Chinese New Year celebrations, or speaking to relatives overseas through video chat applications
  • creating posters to identify how students celebrate or commemorate a range of cultural events
  • using images of people in Australia and other countries to ask students a set of reflective questions about culture, such as whether they’re curious about their own culture or more curious about other cultures

  VCICCB002 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Foundation to Level 2 | Cultural Practices

• 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