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• Intercultural Capability: Levels 5 and 6 description

  In Levels 5 and 6, the curriculum focus is on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to enable students to learn about diverse cultural practices and beliefs and how they compare with their own. This includes religious beliefs, traditional celebrations, family relationships, gender...

  Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability

• Capabilities | Intercultural Capability: Rationale and Aims

  The VCAA has published the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0. To view the curriculum, familiarisation resources and support material, go to the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 website.
  
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  Overview material | Intercultural Capability

• VCICCB005

  Compare their own and others cultural practices, showing how these may influence the ways people relate to each other

  Elaborations

  • comparing the expression of common concepts or human experiences in a range of cultural settings, for example, life milestones and celebrations, learning from older family/community members, demonstrating an emotion
  • exploring rules or expectations within the school or classroom, for example, raising a hand before asking a question, using manners or wearing a uniform, and discussing how these may help foster a culture of respect for other students and teachers
  • researching a cultural practice, for example Japanese origami, or a cultural artefact, for example a kilt, and asking students to explain the significance to other students
  • discussing aspects of Australian culture that might seem ‘strange’ from another perspective, such as eating kangaroo or having an outlaw as a national hero, and contrast with other cultural practices that students may find ‘strange’, such as the Spanish practice of eating twelve grapes at New Years Eve

  VCICCB005 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Cultural Practices

• VCICCB006

  Describe what they have learnt about themselves and others from intercultural experiences including a critical perspective on and respect for their own and others cultures

  Elaborations

  • examining the similarities and differences between their cultural practices and those of young people in a place outside Australia and discussing what it would be like to live in these places
  • asking students to describe an intercultural experience or event and prompting students to explore an intercultural experience or event from different perspectives
  • questioning students about their experience in a role-play, modelled or real-life situation which included an intercultural experience: were they excited, challenged, comfortable, curious?
  • exploring the different meanings of the national anthem, Waltzing Matilda and I am Australian or comparing the meanings associated with a range of national anthems from different countries
  • comparing different cultural norms that demonstrate respect, such as when using public transport, at religious events or in relation to grandparents

  VCICCB006 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Cultural Practices