Abstract
History informs who we are and how we understand our different relationships to First Nations Country. This subject enables students to critically reflect on their own positioning in relation to Australian history. Engaging with a variety of sources, students will learn how standpoint influences the recording and re-presentation of history … For more content click the Read More button below.
Syllabus
Module 1: Standpoint Investigations
Topic 1 The social and the selfTopic 2 The institutional and the selfTopic 3 History and the selfTopic 4 Relationships, positioning and history
Module 2: Politics and Power
Topic 1: Race, racism and eugenicsTopic 2: Policy, legislation, and discoursesTopic 3: Government ControlTopic 4: Disrupting colonialism - … For more content click the Read More button below.
Module 3: Dismantling narratives and reconstructing knowledge
Topic 1: Decolonising historyTopic 2: Reconstructing narrativesTopic 3: Reconstructing professions;Topic 4: Review and Revision
Assessment items
1. Reflection
2. Essay
3. Research Report and literature review
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
1.
Critically reflect on own positioning in relation to Australian history.
2.
Explain how racial science and theories of race influenced the colonisation of Australia.
3.
Analyse the impact of colonisation on the lives and experiences of Indigenous Australian peoples including how colonial narratives influence what is collectively known and not known about Australian history.
4.
Explain how knowledge of Indigenous resistance to colonial and early government policies increases understandings of Australian history.
5.
Recognise the impacts of the history of colonisation in Australia and apply understandings as agents of change in professional practice.