Week 3 - Citizenship learning in the context of an aspect of Australian history
Year six are about to start work on an integrated unit of work encompassing both history and civics and citizenship education looking at the 1967 referendum that gave the Federal government power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and saw Indigenous people included in the Australian Population. To assist your child with this unit of work it would be wonderful if you could engage in conversations with them about the referendum and what it means to you and if possible organise opportunities for your child to talk to family members who remember the events leading up to, during and after the referendum. This will help students to appreciate how events in history can trigger change and shape the future of Australia (Reynolds, 2014). As part of this unit of work we will be looking at how Australia changed during the twentieth century including: investigating the lack of...