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Social Action - Children in Detention Centres within Australia

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle High SchoolSecondary

LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Critical and Creative ThinkingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and Creative Thinking

Personal and social capabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability

Intercultural UnderstandingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding

Ethical Understanding Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding

Charles Dickens

1. Read one of Charles Dickens' books - David Copperfield or Great Expectations or Oliver Twist. Reading

2. Using Dickens' style of writing, investigate the topic of the Australian treatment of Child Refugees and write a story in serial format with four of your classmates.

What would be the names of your characters? What would be your plot? The Introduction? Body of the story? What would be the Conclusion? How will you illustrate your book?

David Copperfield Great Expectations Oliver Twist

Child Refugee articles:

Political Pinballs: The Plight of Child Refugees in Australia by Moira Rayner, Walter Murdoch Lecture 2001

Political Pinballs
Chilout - A not-for-profit community group of Australians concerned with the plight of children held in immigration detention.

Chilout
ABC: 6 June 2011: Malaysia Solution no answer for child refugees

The Drum

Australian Human Rights Commission - 8 May 2013 - Curtin detention centre no place for children

Curtin detention centre no place for children
Young People without Borders

Young People without Borders

This site encourages youth (13 - 20) to be involved in social issues
Department of Immigration - Statistics

Department of Immigration - Statistics

3. When you have finished your story, submit it to an Australian newspaper to see if they would publish it! 

4. Or, create a presentation to show at a school assembly.

 

Charity begins at .....

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle High SchoolSecondary

LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Critical and Creative ThinkingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and Creative Thinking

Personal and social capabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability

Intercultural UnderstandingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning Activity

 

 

1. In groups of 4 - 5 students, investigate the website: Kids2Kids

Kids 2 kids

Kids2Kids.com.au

Dominic Mortimer started this charity when he was 12 to help young people in Africa. This is just one way to help other students.

2. Brainstorm together to think of various ways your group could help other people: at your school or district.

Write down as many possibilities as possible.

Look at each one through the lens of "achieveable"? Is there anything you can do to help?

3. Commit as a group to one of these achieveable projects for the year.

 

 

Could the controversial child protection reforms in NSW lead to another Stolen Generation?

High SchoolSecondary

Ethical Understanding Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding

LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Critical and Creative ThinkingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and Creative Thinking

IndigenousAustralian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

PhilosophyPhilosophy

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning Activity

 

TeacherNotice to Teachers: You need to be mindful of any of your students who are or have been in child protection or Indigenous families affected by the Stolen Generation and direct the discussion accordingly.

 

1. In groups of 4 - 5 students, read the following article from The Conversation 13 November 2018. Reading

The Conversation

2. Discuss the Stolen Generation, its effects and challenges after reading the following articles Reading

 

AIATSIS - Stolen Generations

AIATSIS
Creative Spirits: Stolen Generation

Creative Spirits

3. Reflection

Reflection.

Even if this particular legislation does not pass, why is it consider at all?

4. As a class, hold a Community of Inquiry and use the articles presented as your stimulus material to get a thinking question from each group.

5. Discussion

Discuss the questions:

Could the controversial child protection reforms in NSW lead to another Stolen Generation?

What affects on the whole community will occur?

Is this a "subtle" form of racism?

 

 

Websites, Games & Apps

Choose Your Own Statistics - Human Rights Game

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Numeracy
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Ethical Understanding
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding

Choose Your Own Statistics
"Choose your own Statistics is produced by ABC Splash in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Commission.

This unique interactive learning resource has been designed to enable students from Years 5 to 8 to gain a better understanding of important human rights issues as they explore the latest statistics from respected Australian institutions.


Through the exploration of ten significant topics, students obtain a big picture overview of the data behind current issues like homelessness, immigration, sexual harassment, the justice system, and our ageing population. Interactive graphs provide a snapshot of the cultural background, religious beliefs, technology use and education and employment status of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians of different ages and genders.

Statistics are presented using the full range of graphs included in the syllabus requirements of the Australian Mathematics curriculum. Students can customise and publish their own graphs, and all of the data is available for download to Excel to enable further exploration.
" (Source: ABC Splash)

 

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