Ethical Capability - Structure - Victorian Curriculum

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Structure

The curriculum consists of two strands: Understanding Concepts and Decision Making and Actions.

Strands	Understanding Concepts	Decision Making and Actions
	Students explore: key concepts and ideas important to identifying ethical problems and their relative importance concepts concerned with ethical outcomes, such as good, bad, right, wrong, just and unjust concepts that have ethical significance such as tolerance, greed, freedom and courage the nature and justifications of ethical principles	Students explore: ways to respond to ethical problems factors that influence ethical decision making and action challenges in managing ethical decision making and action

Strands

Understanding Concepts

Decision Making and Actions

Students explore:

key concepts and ideas important to identifying ethical problems and their relative importance
concepts concerned with ethical outcomes, such as good, bad, right, wrong, just and unjust
concepts that have ethical significance such as tolerance, greed, freedom and courage
the nature and justifications of ethical principles

Students explore:

ways to respond to ethical problems
factors that influence ethical decision making and action
challenges in managing ethical decision making and action

Achievement standards

In Ethical Capability, students progress along a curriculum continuum that provides the first achievement standard at Foundation to Level 2 and then at Levels 4, 6, 8 and 10.