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Community Connections
Stage 2
Subject outline
Version 3.0
For teaching in 2024. Accredited in June 2021.
For teaching in 2024. Accredited in June 2021.
Stage 2 | Subject outline | Capabilities | Intercultural understanding
Intercultural understanding
In this subject, students extend and apply their intercultural understanding capability by, for example:
- identifying, observing, analysing, and describing characteristics of their own cultural identities and those of others (e.g. group memberships, traditions, values, religious beliefs, and ways of thinking)
- recognising that culture is dynamic and complex and that there is variability within all cultural, linguistic, and religious groups
- learning about and engaging with diverse cultures in ways that recognise commonalities and differences, create connections with others, and cultivate mutual respect
- developing skills to relate to and move between cultures
- acknowledging the social, cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity of a nation, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia
- recognising the challenges of living in a culturally diverse society and of negotiating, interpreting, and mediating difference
- recognising, acknowledging, appreciating, and valuing the contribution of diverse cultural groups within a community
- learning to value and view critically their own cultural perspectives and practices and those of others
- communicating with others to analyse intercultural experiences critically.