Week 4 - The promotion of a sense of global awareness and concern.
Year 6 - The promotion of a sense of global awareness and concern. Year 6 is about to embark on a unit looking at the obligations we have beyond our national boarders as active and informed citizens and growing our global awareness of human rights, specifically how this relates to refugees (Education Services Australia, 2008). In this unit , the students will be seeking answers to a number of questions. These questions will give us background knowledge and will also enable us to ask the big question of why should the issue of refugees concern us? . Some questions your students will be investigating include; As well as these questions, we will be reading and listening to refugee stories and exploring if and how we can help. Additionally, we will be looking at and familiarising ourselves with international treaties such as the 1954 Convention of the Stateless Person, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and The United Nations Convention on the Righ