DISCOVERING DEMOCRACY UNIT

QUEENSLAND AND VICTORIAN SOSE OUTCOMES

LINKS TO CURRENT TOPICS/PROGRAMS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Establishing priorities
• Types of rights
• Rights and responsibilities

• The French revolution and the defining of human rights
• Comparing rights defined in the past with rights today
• Rights and responsibilities

3. Where have Australians’ human rights come from and how are they protested?

• Rights defined in the Australian Constitution
• Acts of Parliament – case studies
• Court decisions – case study
• Amnesty International and Councils for Civil Liberties

• Investigating democratic rights in Australia
• Applying a Bill of Rights

4. What is Australia’s record on indigenous people’s rights?

• Aboriginal people and human rights
• Securing human rights

TCC 5.1: Students use primary and secondary evidence to identify the development of ideas from ancient to modern times

TCC 5.4: Students explain the consequences of Australia’s international relations on the development of a cohesive society

TCC 6.1: Students evaluate evidence from the past to demonstrate how such accounts reflect the culture in which they were constructed

TCC 6.3: Students collaboratively identify the values underlying contributions by diverse individuals and groups in Australian or Asian environments (?)

TCC 6.5: Students develop criteria-based judgments about the ethical behaviour of people in the past

C&I 5.1: Students investigate aspects of diverse cultural groups, including Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander groups, and how others perceive these aspects

C&I 5.4: Students describe how governments have caused changes to particular cultural groups

C&I 6.4: Students describe specific instances of cultural change resulting from government legislation or policies that have impacted on other cultural groups

SRP 5.5: Students apply the value of social justice to suggest ways of improving access to democracy in Queensland or Australian political settings

SRP6.5: Students apply understandings of social justice and democratic process to suggest ways of improving access to economic, political and legal power

Consumer and citizenship rights.

The law in our society – justice and/or legal rights.

Types of service organisations.

Stories of Democracy CD ROM – Initial organisers are ‘ciivil’ (slavery); ‘political’ (voting), and ‘social’ (poverty). A brief history of the United Nations is provided. Students use photographs and text to investigate rights and responsibilities. No game.